Genre :: War (35 books)

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  #6

  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  (31 Reviews)

  823 Points

  "It was love at first sight."

  

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  #16

  Gone with the Wind

  by Margaret Mitchell

  (22 Reviews)

  606 Points

  "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm, as the Tarleton twins were."

  

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  #34

  Slaughterhouse-Five

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (29 Reviews)

  358 Points

  "All this happened, more or less."

  

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  #35

  War and Peace

  by Leo Tolstoy

  (12 Reviews)

  357 Points

  "Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family."Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. (Maude/Maude)

  

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  #46

  For Whom the Bell Tolls

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (12 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."

  

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  #78

  A Farewell to Arms

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (8 Reviews)

  230 Points

  "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."

  

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  #80

  Birdsong

  by Sebastian Faulks

  (6 Reviews)

  226 Points

  "The boulevard du cange was a broad, quiet street that marked the eastern flank of the city of Amiens."

  

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  #83

  Gravity's Rainbow

  by Thomas Pynchon

  (4 Reviews)

  221 Points

  "A screaming comes across the sky."

  

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  #93

  The Tin Drum

  by Günter Grass

  (5 Reviews)

  201 Points

  "Granted: I'm an inmate of a mental institution; my keeper watches me, scarcely lets me out of his sight; for there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can't see..."

  

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  #102

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  by Louis de Bernières

  (4 Reviews)

  183 Points

  "Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse."

  

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