List :: Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe

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  #21

  Heart of Darkness

  by Joseph Conrad

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 32

  382 points

  "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."

  

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  #22

  Winnie-the-Pooh

  by A. A. Milne

  (21 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 31

  383 points

  "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."

  

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  #23

  Their Eyes Were Watching God

  by Zora Neale Hurston

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 52

  312 points

  "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

  

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  #24

  Invisible Man

  by Ralph Ellison

  (16 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 15

  640 points

  "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—...

  

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  #25

  Song of Solomon

  by Toni Morrison

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 70

  250 points

  "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."

  

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  #26

  Gone with the Wind

  by Margaret Mitchell

  (22 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 16

  606 points

  "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm, as the Tarleton twins were."

  

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  #27

  Native Son

  by Richard Wright

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 39

  348 points

  "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."

  

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  #28

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  by Ken Kesey

  (16 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 163

  122 points

  "They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them."They're out there.

  

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  #29

  Slaughterhouse-Five

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (29 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 34

  358 points

  "All this happened, more or less."

  

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  #30

  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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