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

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  #41

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  by James Joyce

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 30

  389 points

  "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."

  

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  #42

  The Call of the Wild

  by Jack London

  (20 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 92

  203 points

  "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound..."

  

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  #43

  Snow Falling on Cedars

  by David Guterson

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 363

  58 points

  "The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table - the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible..."

  

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  #44

  Watership Down

  by Richard Adams

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 82

  225 points

  "The primroses were over."

  

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  #45

  The Red Badge of Courage

  by Stephen Crane

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 187

  104 points

  "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

  

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  #46

  Of Mice and Men

  by John Steinbeck

  (38 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 36

  349 points

  "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

  

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  #47

  The House of the Spirits

  by Isabel Allende

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 379

  54 points

  "Barrabás came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy."

  

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  #48

  Dune

  by Frank Herbert

  (17 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 87

  214 points

  "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. . . . from "Manual of Muad'dib" by the Princess IrulanIn the week before their departure to Arakis, when all..."

  

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  #49

  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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  #50

  A Prayer for Owen Meany

  by John Irving

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 53

  311 points

  "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but..."

  

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