List :: Books You Can't Live Without by The Guardian

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  #91

  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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  #92

  The Little Prince

  by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  (24 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 186

  106 points

  "Once when I was six years old I saw a beautiful picture in a book about the primeval forest called "True Stories"."

  

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  #93

  The Wasp Factory

  by Iain Banks

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 273

  77 points

  "I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped."

  

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  #94

  Watership Down

  by Richard Adams

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 82

  225 points

  "The primroses were over."

  

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  #95

  A Confederacy of Dunces

  by John Kennedy Toole

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 136

  142 points

  "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on..."

  

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  #96

  A Town Like Alice

  by Nevil Shute

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 315

  69 points

  "James MacFadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point-to-Point."

  

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  #97

  The Three Musketeers

  by Alexandre Dumas

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 509

  24 points

  "On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the iRoman de la Rose/i, was in a wild state of excitement."

  

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  #98

  Hamlet

  by William Shakespeare

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 321

  68 points

  "Act 1, Scene 1 Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels. Barnardo Who's there?"

  

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  #99

  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  by Roald Dahl

  (16 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 144

  135 points

  "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket."

  

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  #100

  Les Misérables

  by Victor Hugo

  (19 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 260

  81 points

  "In the Year 1815 Monseigneur Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne."

  

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