List :: Top 100 Books by Newsweek

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  #81

  The Day of the Locust

  by Nathanael West

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 199

  98 points

  "Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office."

  

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  #82

  Tropic of Cancer

  by Henry Miller

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 130

  151 points

  "I am living at the Villa Borghese."

  

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  #83

  The Maltese Falcon

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 248

  85 points

  "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth."

  

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  #84

  His Dark Materials

  by Philip Pullman

  (14 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 63

  277 points

  "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. (Northern lights)Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."..."

  

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  #85

  Death Comes for the Archbishop

  by Willa Cather

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 323

  68 points

  "One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."

  

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  #86

  The Interpretation of Dreams

  by Sigmund Freud

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 545

  15 points

  

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  #87

  The Education of Henry Adams

  by Henry Adams

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 555

  14 points

  "Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds,..."

  

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  #88

  Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

  by Mao Tse-Tung

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 559

  13 points

  

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  #89

  The Varieties of Religious Experience

  by William James

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 570

  12 points

  "This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh.It is with no small amount of trepidation..."

  

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  #90

  Brideshead Revisited

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 64

  269 points

  "When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."

  

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