Genre :: Politics (29 books)

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  #3

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

  by George Orwell

  (69 Reviews)

  946 Points

  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

  

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  #23

  Animal Farm

  by George Orwell

  (46 Reviews)

  495 Points

  "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."

  

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  #90

  All the King's Men

  by Robert Penn Warren

  (5 Reviews)

  207 Points

  "MASON CITY. To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it."

  

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  #143

  The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

  by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  (1 Review)

  136 Points

  "How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?"

  

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  #203

  The Public Burning

  by Robert Coover

  (1 Review)

  97 Points

  

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  #214

  Darkness at Noon

  by Arthur Koestler

  (3 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "The cell door slammed behind Rubashov."

  

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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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  #245

  Sybil

  by Benjamin Disraeli

  (2 Reviews)

  86 Points

  "'I'll take the odds against Caravan.'"

  

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  #274

  The Fountainhead

  by Ayn Rand

  (7 Reviews)

  77 Points

  "Howard Roark laughed."

  

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  #287

  Democracy in America; and Two essays on America

  by Alexis de Tocqueville

  (3 Reviews)

  75 Points

  

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