List :: Top 100 Books by Harvard Book Store

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  #91

  The Blue Sword

  by Robin McKinley

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 578

  10 points

  "She scowled at her glass of orange juice."

  

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  #92

  The Odyssey

  by Homer

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 188

  102 points

  "By now the other warriors, those that had escaped headlong ruin by sea or in battle, were safely home.Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once..."

  

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  #93

  Song of Solomon

  by Toni Morrison

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 70

  250 points

  "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."

  

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  #94

  Gilead

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 183

  107 points

  "I told you last night that I might be gone sometime and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're..."

  

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  #95

  A Little Princess

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 599

  6 points

  "Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an..."

  

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  #96

  A People's History of the United States

  by Howard Zinn

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 603

  5 points

  "Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat."

  

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  #97

  Les Misérables

  by Victor Hugo

  (19 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 260

  81 points

  "In the Year 1815 Monseigneur Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne."

  

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  #98

  Sometimes a Great Notion

  by Ken Kesey

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 610

  3 points

  "Along the wester slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range ... come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River ..."

  

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  #99

  Cloud Atlas

  by David Mitchell

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 523

  21 points

  "Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints."

  

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  #100

  Leaves of Grass

  by Walt Whitman

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 403

  49 points

  

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