List :: 100 Greatest Novels of All Time by The Guardian

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  #51

  Journey to the End of the Night

  by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 132

  145 points

  

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  #52

  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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  #53

  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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  #54

  Scoop

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 122

  156 points

  "While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters'."

  

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  #55

  The 42nd Parallel

  by John Dos Passos

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 94

  200 points

  "General Mills with his gaudy uniform and spirited charger was the center for all eyes especially as his steed was extremely restless."

  

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  #56

  The Big Sleep

  by Raymond Chandler

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 128

  152 points

  "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."

  

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  #57

  The Pursuit of Love

  by Nancy Mitford

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 424

  44 points

  "There is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh."

  

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  #58

  The Plague

  by Albert Camus

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 215

  93 points

  "The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194- at Oran.Les curieux événements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produits en 194., à Oran.Le matin du 16 avril, le docteur..."

  

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  #59

  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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  #60

  Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

  by Samuel Beckett

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 71

  247 points

  "I am in my mother's room."

  

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