Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

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  #364

  Fathers and Sons

  by Ivan Turgenev

  (3 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "Well, Piotr, not in sight yet?" was the question asked on May the 20th, 1859, by a gentleman of a little over forty, in a dusty coat and checked trousers, who came out without his hat on to the...

  

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  #367

  Babbitt

  by Sinclair Lewis

  (1 Review)

  57 Points

  "The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods."

  

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  #381

  The Joke

  by Milan Kundera

  (2 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "So here I was, home again after all those years. Standing in the main square (which I had crossed countless times as a child, as a boy, as a young man), I felt no emotion whatsoever; all I could..."

  

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  #389

  American Pastoral

  by Philip Roth

  (3 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "The swede."

  

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  #397

  The Magnificent Ambersons

  by Booth Tarkington

  (2 Reviews)

  51 Points

  "Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then."

  

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  #406

  The Bean Trees

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  (4 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbines's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign."

  

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  #407

  Nightwood

  by Djuna Barnes

  (3 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "Early in 1880, in spite of a well-founded suspicion as to the advisability of perpetuating that race which has the sanction of the Lord and the disapproval of the people, Hedvig Volkbein—a Viennese..."

  

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  #408

  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

  by J. D. Salinger

  (1 Review)

  49 Points

  "One night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous family, my youngest sister, Franny, was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-free room I shared with my eldest..."

  

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  #427

  Naked Lunch

  by William S. Burroughs

  (6 Reviews)

  44 Points

  "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil-doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square station,..."

  

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  #429

  The Savage Detectives

  by Roberto Bolaño

  (3 Reviews)

  43 Points

  "I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists."

  

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