List :: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph

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  #71

  Dream of the Red Chamber

  by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 262

  81 points

  "When the Goddess Nugua undertook to repair the Dome of Heaven, she fashioned at the Great Mythical Mountain under the Nonesuch Bluff 36,501 pieces of stone, each 120 feet high and 240 feet around...."

  

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  #72

  Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

  by Anne Tyler

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 485

  29 points

  "While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her."

  

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  #73

  All Quiet on the Western Front

  by Erich Maria Remarque

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 374

  55 points

  "We are at rest five miles behind the front."

  

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  #74

  Waiting for the Mahatma

  by R. K. Narayan

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 495

  27 points

  "His mother who died delivering him, and his father who was killed in Mesopotamia, might have been figures in a legend as far as Sriram was concerned."

  

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  #75

  Cider with Rosie

  by Laurie Lee

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 302

  71 points

  "I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began."

  

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  #76

  The Trial

  by Franz Kafka

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 57

  304 points

  "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.Jemand mußte Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne daß er etwas Böses..."

  

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  #77

  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  (31 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 6

  823 points

  "It was love at first sight."

  

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  #78

  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

  by Lewis Carroll

  (24 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 45

  327 points

  "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or..."

  

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  #79

  Wide Sargasso Sea

  by Jean Rhys

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 125

  153 points

  "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

  

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  #80

  Oscar and Lucinda

  by Peter Carey

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 265

  80 points

  "If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea."

  

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