Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

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  #74

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  by Laurence Sterne

  (4 Reviews)

  244 Points

  "I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much...

  

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  #76

  The Ambassadors

  by Henry James

  (4 Reviews)

  235 Points

  "Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted."

  

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  #85

  Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

  by Samuel Richardson

  (4 Reviews)

  215 Points

  "I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family."

  

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  #94

  The 42nd Parallel

  by John Dos Passos

  (3 Reviews)

  200 Points

  "General Mills with his gaudy uniform and spirited charger was the center for all eyes especially as his steed was extremely restless."

  

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  #95

  Under the Volcano

  by Malcolm Lowry

  (5 Reviews)

  199 Points

  "Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus."

  

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  #96

  Disgrace

  by J. M. Coetzee

  (7 Reviews)

  193 Points

  "For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well."

  

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  #109

  White Noise

  by Don DeLillo

  (4 Reviews)

  178 Points

  "The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus."

  

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  #117

  The Shipping News

  by Annie Proulx

  (8 Reviews)

  164 Points

  "Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns."

  

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  #119

  Herzog

  by Saul Bellow

  (3 Reviews)

  162 Points

  "If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."

  

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  #125

  Wide Sargasso Sea

  by Jean Rhys

  (6 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

  

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