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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: Literary Fiction (94 books)

The best classic books from the Literary Fiction genre.

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

Samuel Butler

3.67 (3)

When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick. He must have been getting on for eighty in the year 1807, earlier than which date I suppose I can hardly remember him, for I was born in 1802.

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A House for Mr.Biswas

A House for Mr.Biswas

V. S. Naipaul

4.0 (1)

Ten weeks before he died, Mr. Mohun Biswas, a journalist of Sikkim Street, St. James, Port of Spain, was sacked.

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The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope

4.5 (2)

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 house in Welbeck Street.

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Appointment in Samarra

Appointment in Samarra

John O'Hara

4.0 (1)

Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L. for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats.

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A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell

3.5 (2)

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 subterranean drainpipes.

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The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

3.5 (2)

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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The Sea, the Sea

The Sea, the Sea

Iris Murdoch

3.5 (2)

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

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The Bone People

The Bone People

Keri Hulme

3.5 (2)

He walks down the street.

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The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle

John Cheever

4.0 (2)

St. Botolphs was an old place, an old river town.

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The Leopard

The Leopard

Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

3.33 (3)

'<i>Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.</i>'

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