List :: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph

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  #81

  The Name of the Rose

  by Umberto Eco

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 116

  166 points

  "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

  

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  #82

  The Stranger

  by Albert Camus

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 44

  331 points

  "Mother died today. (Stuart Gilbert translation)Maman died today. (Matthew Ward translation)Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas."

  

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  #83

  Germinal

  by Émile Zola

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 277

  76 points

  "Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans étoiles, d’une obscurité et d’une épaisseur d’encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes à Montsou, dix kilomètres de pavé coupant tout..."

  

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  #84

  The Three Musketeers

  by Alexandre Dumas

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 509

  24 points

  "On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the iRoman de la Rose/i, was in a wild state of excitement."

  

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  #85

  The Red and the Black

  by Stendhal

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 244

  86 points

  "La petite ville de Verrières peut passer pour l'une des plus jolies de la Franche-Comté.The small town of Verrieres may be regarded as one of the prettiest in the Franche-Comte."

  

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  #86

  Old Goriot

  by Honoré de Balzac

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 264

  80 points

  "Madame Vauquer (nee De Conflans) is an elderly person who for the past forty years has kept a lodging house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter..."

  

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  #87

  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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  #88

  Eugene Onegin

  by Alexander Pushkin

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 560

  13 points

  "'My uncle, man of firm convictions...By falling gravely ill, he's wonA due respect for his afflictions--The only clever thing he's done.(James E. Falen translation)"

  

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  #89

  The Golden Notebook

  by Doris Lessing

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 65

  266 points

  "The two women were alone in the London flat."

  

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  #90

  Under the Net

  by Iris Murdoch

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 536

  17 points

  "When I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong. Finn usually waits for me in bed, or leaning up against the side of the door with his eyes..."

  

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