List :: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph

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  #91

  The Tale of Genji

  by Murasaki Shikibu

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 191

  101 points

  "In a certain reign (whose can it have been?) someone of no very great rank, among all His Magesty's Consorts and Intimates, enjoyed exceptional favor."

  

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  #92

  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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  #93

  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

  by John le Carré

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 469

  31 points

  "The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all."

  

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  #94

  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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  #95

  The Sorrows of Young Werther

  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 487

  29 points

  "I have diligently collected everything I have been able to discover concerning the story of poor Werther, and here present it to you in the knowledge that you will be grateful for it.On 30th..."

  

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  #96

  The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

  by Richard Burton

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 602

  5 points

  

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  #97

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  (28 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 40

  344 points

  "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million..."

  

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  #98

  The Home and the World

  by Rabindranath Tagore

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 387

  53 points

  

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  #99

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  by Harper Lee

  (64 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 10

  701 points

  "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

  

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  #100

  The Lord of the Rings

  by J. R. R. Tolkien

  (36 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 11

  691 points

  "When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."

  

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