List :: Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe

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  #81

  Wide Sargasso Sea

  by Jean Rhys

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 125

  153 points

  "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

  

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  #82

  White Noise

  by Don DeLillo

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 109

  178 points

  "The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus."

  

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  #83

  O Pioneers!

  by Willa Cather

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 532

  18 points

  "One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the..."

  

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  #84

  Tropic of Cancer

  by Henry Miller

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 130

  151 points

  "I am living at the Villa Borghese."

  

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  #85

  The War of the Worlds

  by H. G. Wells

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 133

  143 points

  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as..."

  

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  #86

  Lord Jim

  by Joseph Conrad

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 338

  65 points

  "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think..."

  

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  #87

  The Bostonians

  by Henry James

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 552

  14 points

  "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that."

  

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  #88

  An American Tragedy

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 108

  179 points

  "Dusk - of a summer night."

  

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  #89

  Death Comes for the Archbishop

  by Willa Cather

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 323

  68 points

  "One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."

  

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  #90

  The Wind in the Willows

  by Kenneth Grahame

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 49

  318 points

  "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. "

  

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