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List: The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review

Riddley Walker

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban

3.0 (2)

On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.

#563
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Go in beauty

Go in beauty

William Eastlake

5.0 (1)

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The Franchiser

The Franchiser

Stanley Elkin

5.0 (1)

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City of Glass

City of Glass

Paul Auster

3.0 (1)

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

#419
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Skinny Legs and All

Skinny Legs and All

Tom Robbins

4.0 (2)

This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper. The toadstool motel you once thought a mere folk tale, a corny, obsolete, rural invention.

#406
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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

4.0 (3)

I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

#405
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Tlooth

Tlooth

Harry Mathews

2.0 (1)

Mannish Madame Nevtaya slowly cried "Fur bowls!" and the Fideist batter, alert to the sense behind the sound of her words, jogged toward first base.

#618
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the man in the high castle

the man in the high castle

Philip K. Dick

3.67 (3)

For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail.

#397
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