Genre :: Fantasy (92 books)

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  #178

  Ficciones

  by Jorge Luis Borges

  (1 Review)

  112 Points

  "I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia."

  

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  #186

  The Little Prince

  by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  (24 Reviews)

  106 Points

  "Once when I was six years old I saw a beautiful picture in a book about the primeval forest called "True Stories"."

  

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  #188

  The Odyssey

  by Homer

  (11 Reviews)

  102 Points

  "By now the other warriors, those that had escaped headlong ruin by sea or in battle, were safely home.Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once..."

  

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  #193

  Life of Pi

  by Yann Martel

  (17 Reviews)

  100 Points

  "My suffering left me sad and gloomy."

  

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  #195

  The Pilgrim's Progress

  by John Bunyan

  (6 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream.(Introduction to the..."

  

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  #200

  The Stand

  by Stephen King

  (10 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston."Sally.""

  

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  #204

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  by J. K. Rowling

  (28 Reviews)

  96 Points

  "The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House', even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there."

  

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  #205

  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  by Haruki Murakami

  (3 Reviews)

  96 Points

  "When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to and FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music..."

  

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  #216

  The Soft Machine

  by William S. Burroughs

  (3 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running..."

  

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  #241

  Stranger in a Strange Land

  by Robert A. Heinlein

  (7 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith."

  

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