List :: Top 100 Books by Newsweek

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  #41

  Bible: King James Version

  by KJV

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 124

  155 points

  "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.Bibliographical introduction....

  

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  #42

  A Clockwork Orange

  by Anthony Burgess

  (20 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 59

  295 points

  "'What's it going to be then, eh?'"

  

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  #43

  Light in August

  by William Faulkner

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 99

  188 points

  "Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.'"

  

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  #44

  The Souls of Black Folk

  by W. E. B. Du Bois

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 368

  57 points

  

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  #45

  Wide Sargasso Sea

  by Jean Rhys

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 125

  153 points

  "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

  

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  #46

  Madame Bovary

  by Gustave Flaubert

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 48

  322 points

  "Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."

  

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  #47

  Paradise Lost

  by John Milton

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 380

  54 points

  

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  #48

  Anna Karenina

  by Leo Tolstoy

  (26 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 22

  505 points

  "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (C. Garnett, 1946) and (J. Carmichael, 1960)All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy..."

  

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  #49

  Hamlet

  by William Shakespeare

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 321

  68 points

  "Act 1, Scene 1 Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels. Barnardo Who's there?"

  

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  #50

  King Lear

  by William Shakespeare

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 396

  51 points

  "I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall."

  

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