Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

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  #431

  Infinite Jest

  by David Foster Wallace

  (3 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies."

  

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  #444

  The Leopard

  by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

  (3 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "'Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.'"

  

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  #447

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

  by Raymond Carver

  (3 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "(From Why Don't You Dance?) In the kitchen, he poured another drink and looked at the bedroom suite in his front yard."

  

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  #458

  Of Human Bondage

  by W. Somerset Maugham

  (1 Review)

  35 Points

  "The day broke grey and dull."

  

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  #472

  Look Homeward, Angel

  by Thomas Wolfe

  (1 Review)

  31 Points

  "A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the..."

  

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  #480

  Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein

  by Marguerite Duras

  (2 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "Lol Stein was born here in South Tahla, and she spent a good part of her youth in this town."

  

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  #481

  The Death of Artemio Cruz

  by Carlos Fuentes

  (2 Reviews)

  29 Points

  "I wake ... the touch of that cold object against my penis awakens me."

  

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  #485

  Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

  by Anne Tyler

  (2 Reviews)

  29 Points

  "While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her."

  

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  #500

  The Last Chronicle of Barset

  by Anthony Trollope

  (3 Reviews)

  26 Points

  "'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge."

  

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  #506

  Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

  by Elizabeth Taylor

  (2 Reviews)

  24 Points

  "Mrs Palfrey first came to the Claremont Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in January."

  

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