Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

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  #177

  Dubliners

  by James Joyce

  (7 Reviews)

  112 Points

  "The Sisters - There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.An encounter: It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us.Araby: North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet..."

  

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  #183

  Gilead

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (3 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "I told you last night that I might be gone sometime and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're..."

  

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  #184

  Nausea

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  (5 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "These notebooks were found among the papers of Antoine Roquentin. ("Editors' Note")The best thing would be to write down events from day to day."

  

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  #192

  Cannery Row

  by John Steinbeck

  (7 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."

  

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  #196

  Jude the Obscure

  by Thomas Hardy

  (3 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry."

  

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  #208

  Dead Souls

  by Nikolai Gogol

  (3 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "A small, rather smart, well-sprung four-wheeled carriage with a folding top drove through the gates of an inn of the provincial town of N.; it was the sort of carriage bachelors usually drive in:..."

  

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  #209

  Rabbit, Run

  by John Updike

  (4 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. "

  

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  #212

  Crash

  by J. G. Ballard

  (4 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash."

  

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  #219

  Winesburg, Ohio

  by Sherwood Anderson

  (3 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. The windows of the house in which he lived were high and he wanted to look at the trees when he awoke in the..."

  

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  #224

  Main Street

  by Sinclair Lewis

  (1 Review)

  90 Points

  "Chapter 1: On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky."

  

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