List :: Top 100 Books by Newsweek

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  #61

  Animal Farm

  by George Orwell

  (46 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 23

  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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  #62

  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  (45 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 20

  537 points

  "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."

  

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  #63

  In Cold Blood

  by Truman Capote

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 242

  86 points

  "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there'."

  

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  #64

  The Golden Notebook

  by Doris Lessing

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 65

  266 points

  "The two women were alone in the London flat."

  

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  #65

  In Search of Lost Time

  by Marcel Proust

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 25

  455 points

  "For a long time, I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]"

  

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  #66

  The Big Sleep

  by Raymond Chandler

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 128

  152 points

  "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."

  

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  #67

  As I Lay Dying

  by William Faulkner

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 62

  281 points

  "Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file."

  

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  #68

  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (23 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 42

  335 points

  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

  

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  #69

  I, Claudius

  by Robert Graves

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 129

  151 points

  "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives..."

  

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  #70

  The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

  by Carson McCullers

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 104

  181 points

  "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."

  

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