List :: Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe

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  #71

  Rebecca

  by Daphne du Maurier

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 43

  333 points

  "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

  

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  #72

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  (28 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 40

  344 points

  "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million..."

  

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  #73

  Naked Lunch

  by William S. Burroughs

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 427

  44 points

  "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil-doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square station,..."

  

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  #74

  Brideshead Revisited

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 64

  269 points

  "When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."

  

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  #75

  Women in Love

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 79

  226 points

  "Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was..."

  

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  #76

  Look Homeward, Angel

  by Thomas Wolfe

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 472

  31 points

  "A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the..."

  

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  #77

  In Our Time

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 194

  99 points

  "The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight."

  

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  #78

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

  by Gertrude Stein

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 510

  23 points

  "I was born in San Francisco, California."

  

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  #79

  The Maltese Falcon

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 248

  85 points

  "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth."

  

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  #80

  The Naked and the Dead

  by Norman Mailer

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 254

  83 points

  "Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assult craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on he beach at Anopopei. All over the ship, all through..."

  

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