List :: Top 100 Books by Harvard Book Store

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  #31

  Mountains Beyond Mountains

  by Tracy Kidder

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 308

  70 points

  "Six years after the fact, Dr. Paul Edward Farmer reminded me, "We met because of a beheading, of all things.""

  

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  #32

  Crime and Punishment

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 58

  298 points

  "On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. (Garnett..."

  

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  #33

  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  (31 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 6

  823 points

  "It was love at first sight."

  

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  #34

  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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  #35

  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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  #36

  Little Women

  by Louisa May Alcott

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 38

  348 points

  "“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."

  

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  #37

  A Wizard of Earthsea

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 344

  64 points

  "The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards."

  

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  #38

  A Moveable Feast

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 176

  113 points

  "Then there was the bad weather."

  

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  #39

  Cat's Cradle

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 202

  97 points

  "Call me Jonah."

  

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  #40

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  (28 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 40

  344 points

  "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million..."

  

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