List :: Top 100 Books by Harvard Book Store

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  #61

  Half of a Yellow Sun

  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 439

  40 points

  "Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair."

  

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  #62

  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  by Junot Diaz

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 139

  139 points

  "They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn..."

  

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  #63

  The Stranger

  by Albert Camus

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 44

  331 points

  "Mother died today. (Stuart Gilbert translation)Maman died today. (Matthew Ward translation)Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas."

  

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  #64

  Pale Fire

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 101

  185 points

  "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane.Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John..."

  

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  #65

  The Diary of a Young Girl

  by Anne Frank

  (19 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 97

  193 points

  "On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o' clock and no wonder; it was my birthday"

  

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  #66

  Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  by Neil Gaiman

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 316

  68 points

  "It was a nice day."

  

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  #67

  The Chronicles of Narnia

  by C. S. Lewis

  (28 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 27

  403 points

  "There is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. (From The Magician's Nephew, first in chronological order)Once there were four children whose names were..."

  

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  #68

  For Whom the Bell Tolls

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 46

  322 points

  "He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."

  

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  #69

  Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

  by Grace Paley

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 465

  32 points

  

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  #70

  Haroun and the Sea of Stories

  by Salman Rushdie

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 448

  38 points

  "There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name."

  

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