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

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  #61

  Of Mice and Men

  by John Steinbeck

  (38 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 36

  349 points

  "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

  

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  #62

  Lolita

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (36 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 5

  856 points

  "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."

  

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  #63

  The Secret History

  by Donna Tartt

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 348

  63 points

  "The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. (Prologue)Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that..."

  

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  #64

  The Lovely Bones

  by Alice Sebold

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 451

  37 points

  "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. "

  

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  #65

  The Count of Monte Cristo

  by Alexandre Dumas

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 107

  180 points

  "On February 24, 1815, the watchtower at Marseilles signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples."

  

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  #66

  On the Road

  by Jack Kerouac

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 18

  543 points

  "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."

  

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  #67

  Jude the Obscure

  by Thomas Hardy

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 196

  99 points

  "The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry."

  

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  #68

  Bridget Jones's Diary

  by Helen Fielding

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 360

  59 points

  "I WILL NOT Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week."

  

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  #69

  Midnight's Children

  by Salman Rushdie

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 29

  391 points

  "I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time."

  

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  #70

  Moby-Dick

  by Herman Melville

  (17 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 37

  348 points

  "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see..."

  

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