List :: Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe

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  #1

  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (97 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 1

  994 points

  "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

  

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  #2

  The Catcher in the Rye

  by J. D. Salinger

  (45 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 7

  735 points

  "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...

  

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  #3

  The Grapes of Wrath

  by John Steinbeck

  (35 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 2

  963 points

  "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

  

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  #4

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  by Harper Lee

  (64 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 10

  701 points

  "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

  

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  #5

  The Color Purple

  by Alice Walker

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 28

  392 points

  "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."

  

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  #6

  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 4

  925 points

  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

  

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  #7

  Beloved

  by Toni Morrison

  (14 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 8

  719 points

  "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."

  

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  #8

  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  (45 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 20

  537 points

  "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."

  

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  #9

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

  by George Orwell

  (69 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 3

  946 points

  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

  

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  #10

  The Sound and the Fury

  by William Faulkner

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 9

  703 points

  "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."

  

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