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

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  #81

  The Executioner's Song

  by Norman Mailer

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 305

  70 points

  "Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree."

  

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  #82

  If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

  by Italo Calvino

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 151

  130 points

  "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.Stai per cominciare a leggere il nuovo romanzo Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore di Italo Calvino."

  

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  #83

  A Bend in the River

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 165

  120 points

  "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

  

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  #84

  Waiting for the Barbarians

  by J. M. Coetzee

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 282

  76 points

  "I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?"

  

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  #85

  Housekeeping

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 167

  118 points

  "My name is Ruth."

  

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  #86

  Lanark

  by Alasdair Gray

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 548

  15 points

  "The Elite Cafe was entered by a staircase from the foyer of a cinema. "

  

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  #87

  City of Glass

  by Paul Auster

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 417

  46 points

  "It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not."

  

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  #88

  The BFG

  by Roald Dahl

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 351

  62 points

  "Sophie couldn't sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. It was shining right onto her pillow."

  

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  #89

  The Periodic Table

  by Primo Levi

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 565

  12 points

  "There are the so-called inert gases in the air we breathe."

  

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  #90

  Money

  by Martin Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 572

  11 points

  "As my cab pulled of FDR Drive, somewhere in the early Hundreds, a low-slung Tomohawk full of black guys came sharking out of lane and slopped in fast right across our bows."

  

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