List :: 100 Books of the Past Century by Koen Books

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  #31

  Lolita

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (36 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 5

  856 points

  "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."

  

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  #32

  Charlotte's Web

  by E. B. White

  (26 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 75

  236 points

  "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."

  

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  #33

  Bastard Out of Carolina

  by Dorothy Allison

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 320

  68 points

  "I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne."

  

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  #34

  My Ántonia

  by Willa Cather

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 121

  159 points

  "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year,..."

  

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  #35

  The Age of Innocence

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 60

  292 points

  "On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."

  

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  #36

  The Killer Angels

  by Michael Shaara

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 172

  115 points

  "1. THE SPY He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted."

  

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  #37

  The Shipping News

  by Annie Proulx

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 117

  164 points

  "Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns."

  

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  #38

  The World According to Garp

  by John Irving

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 110

  177 points

  "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."

  

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  #39

  To the Lighthouse

  by Virginia Woolf

  (14 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 14

  642 points

  "Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.

  

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  #40

  Atlas Shrugged

  by Ayn Rand

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 306

  70 points

  "Who is John Galt?"

  

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