Genre :: Humor (59 books)

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  #452

  Tales of the City

  by Armistead Maupin

  (3 Reviews)

  37 Points

  "Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time."

  

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  #454

  Mort

  by Terry Pratchett

  (7 Reviews)

  36 Points

  "This is the bright candlelit room where the lifetimers are stored - shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for ever living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past."

  

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  #466

  Guards! Guards!

  by Terry Pratchett

  (7 Reviews)

  32 Points

  "This is where the dragons went."

  

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  #474

  Skinny Legs and All

  by Tom Robbins

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper. The toadstool motel you once thought a mere folk tale, a corny, obsolete, rural invention."

  

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  #479

  You Shall Know Our Velocity

  by Dave Eggers

  (1 Review)

  30 Points

  "I was talking to Hand, one of my two best friends, the one still alive, and we were planning to leave."

  

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  #489

  Night Watch

  by Terry Pratchett

  (6 Reviews)

  28 Points

  "Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it."

  

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  #493

  Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

  by Richard Fariña

  (1 Review)

  28 Points

  "To Athené then."

  

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  #497

  Notes from a small island

  by Bill Bryson

  (5 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "My first sight of England was on a foggy March night in 1973 when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais."

  

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  #502

  The Pickwick Papers

  by Charles Dickens

  (5 Reviews)

  25 Points

  "The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to..."

  

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  #514

  Candide

  by Voltaire

  (8 Reviews)

  22 Points

  "There lived in Westphalia, at the country seat of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young lad blessed by Nature with the most agreeable manners.In the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia..."

  

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