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

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  #61

  Red Harvest

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 442

  40 points

  "I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte."

  

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  #62

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

  by Raymond Carver

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 447

  39 points

  "(From Why Don't You Dance?) In the kitchen, he poured another drink and looked at the bedroom suite in his front yard."

  

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  #63

  Dubliners

  by James Joyce

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 177

  112 points

  "The Sisters - There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.An encounter: It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us.Araby: North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet..."

  

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  #64

  Cane

  by Jean Toomer

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 450

  37 points

  

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  #65

  The House of Mirth

  by Edith Wharton

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 113

  172 points

  "Selden paused in surprise."

  

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  #66

  Riddley Walker

  by Russell Hoban

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 457

  35 points

  "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..."

  

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  #67

  Go in beauty

  by William Eastlake

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 459

  34 points

  

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  #68

  The Franchiser

  by Stanley Elkin

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 463

  33 points

  

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  #69

  City of Glass

  by Paul Auster

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 417

  46 points

  "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."

  

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  #70

  Skinny Legs and All

  by Tom Robbins

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 474

  31 points

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

  

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