Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

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  #282

  Waiting for the Barbarians

  by J. M. Coetzee

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?"

  

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  #285

  The Way We Live Now

  by Anthony Trollope

  (2 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own..."

  

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  #291

  The Recognitions

  by William Gaddis

  (3 Reviews)

  74 Points

  "Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at the critical moment it presumes itself as reality."

  

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  #313

  The Golden Bowl

  by Henry James

  (1 Review)

  69 Points

  "The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have..."

  

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  #320

  Bastard Out of Carolina

  by Dorothy Allison

  (1 Review)

  68 Points

  "I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne."

  

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  #324

  The Sea, the Sea

  by Iris Murdoch

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine."

  

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  #331

  A handful of dust

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (3 Reviews)

  67 Points

  "Was anyone hurt?"

  

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  #335

  The Bone People

  by Keri Hulme

  (2 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "He walks down the street."

  

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  #336

  The God of Small Things

  by Arundhati Roy

  (6 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.Maj je v Ajemenemu vroč, morast mesec."

  

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  #358

  The Sot-Weed Factor

  by John Barth

  (2 Reviews)

  59 Points

  "In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and the fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than..."

  

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