List :: Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe

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  #11

  Lolita

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (36 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 5

  856 points

  "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."

  

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  #12

  Of Mice and Men

  by John Steinbeck

  (38 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 36

  349 points

  "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

  

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  #13

  Charlotte's Web

  by E. B. White

  (26 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 75

  236 points

  "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."

  

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  #14

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  by James Joyce

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 30

  389 points

  "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."

  

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  #15

  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  (31 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 6

  823 points

  "It was love at first sight."

  

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  #16

  Brave New World

  by Aldous Huxley

  (30 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 13

  664 points

  "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

  

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  #17

  Animal Farm

  by George Orwell

  (46 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 23

  495 points

  "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."

  

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  #18

  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (23 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 42

  335 points

  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

  

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  #19

  As I Lay Dying

  by William Faulkner

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 62

  281 points

  "Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file."

  

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  #20

  A Farewell to Arms

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 78

  230 points

  "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."

  

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