List :: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph

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  #61

  My Name is Red

  by Orhan Pamuk

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 228

  90 points

  "I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well."

  

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  #62

  Gulliver's travels

  by Jonathan Swift

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 81

  225 points

  "My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons."

  

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  #63

  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 181

  107 points

  "Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet..."

  

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  #64

  The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

  by Naguib Mahfouz

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 240

  87 points

  

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  #65

  Doctor Zhivago

  by Boris Pasternak

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 148

  133 points

  "On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing."

  

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  #66

  Crime and Punishment

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 58

  298 points

  "On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. (Garnett..."

  

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  #67

  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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  #68

  Crash

  by J. G. Ballard

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 212

  94 points

  "Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash."

  

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  #69

  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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  #70

  The Leopard

  by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 444

  39 points

  "'Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.'"

  

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