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

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  #51

  Life of Pi

  by Yann Martel

  (17 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 193

  100 points

  "My suffering left me sad and gloomy."

  

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  #52

  Dune

  by Frank Herbert

  (17 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 87

  214 points

  "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. . . . from "Manual of Muad'dib" by the Princess IrulanIn the week before their departure to Arakis, when all..."

  

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  #53

  Cold Comfort Farm

  by Stella Gibbons

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 309

  70 points

  "The education bestowed upon Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of influenza or..."

  

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  #54

  Sense and Sensibility

  by Jane Austen

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 414

  47 points

  "The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex."

  

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  #55

  A Suitable Boy

  by Vikram Seth

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 134

  143 points

  "'You too will marry a boy I choose' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter."

  

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  #56

  The Shadow of the Wind

  by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 422

  45 points

  "I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.Todavia recuerdo aquel amanecer en que mi padre me llevo por primera vez a visitar el Cementerio de..."

  

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  #57

  A Tale of Two Cities

  by Charles Dickens

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 258

  82 points

  "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of..."

  

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  #58

  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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  #59

  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  by Mark Haddon

  (14 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 434

  42 points

  "It was 7 minutes after midnight."

  

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  #60

  Love in The Time of Cholera

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 126

  153 points

  "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

  

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