Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

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  #127

  The Remains of the day

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  (8 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."

  

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  #139

  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  by Junot Diaz

  (5 Reviews)

  139 Points

  "They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn..."

  

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  #141

  A Thousand Acres

  by Jane Smiley

  (5 Reviews)

  137 Points

  "At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."

  

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  #146

  JR

  by William Gaddis

  (2 Reviews)

  134 Points

  

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  #149

  Lucky Jim

  by Kingsley Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  133 Points

  "They made a silly mistake, though," the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.

  

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  #150

  Underworld

  by Don DeLillo

  (5 Reviews)

  132 Points

  "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.Parla la tua lingua, l'americano, e c'è una luce nel suo sguardo che è una mezza speranza."

  

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  #156

  Ironweed

  by William J. Kennedy

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "Riding up the winding road of Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of the rattling old truck, Francis Phelan became aware that the dead, even more than the living, settled down in neighborhoods."

  

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  #159

  A Dance to the Music of Time

  by Anthony Powell

  (2 Reviews)

  127 Points

  "The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of a camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of..."

  

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  #165

  A Bend in the River

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (2 Reviews)

  120 Points

  "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

  

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  #167

  Housekeeping

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (4 Reviews)

  118 Points

  "My name is Ruth."

  

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