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List: Top 100 Books by Harvard Book Store

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

4.0 (3)

When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to and FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's <i>The Thieving Magpie</i>, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

#261
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Richard Fariña

4.0 (1)

To Athené then.

#517
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A Wild Sheep Chase

A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami

4.0 (5)

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

#433
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino

4.4 (5)

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, <i>If on a winter's night a traveler.</i>Stai per cominciare a leggere il nuovo romanzo Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore di Italo Calvino.

#292
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The Complete Stories

The Complete Stories

Flannery O'Connor

5.0 (1)

Old Dudley folded into the chair he was gradually molding to his own shape and looked out the window fifteen feet away into another window framed by blackened red brick.

#296
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Drown

Drown

Junot Diaz

5.0 (1)

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Hamlet

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

4.09 (11)

<B>Act 1, Scene 1</B><BR><I>Enter</I> <B>Barnardo</B> <I>and</I> <B>Francisco</B><I>, two sentinels.</I><BR><BR><B>Barnardo</B><BR>Who's there?

#39
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Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

4.33 (6)

#202
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The Bone People

The Bone People

Keri Hulme

3.5 (2)

He walks down the street.

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The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham

4.5 (2)

I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it.

#381
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