List :: The Big Read by BBC

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  #91

  The Godfather

  by Mario Puzo

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 492

  28 points

  "Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court No. 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her."

  

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  #92

  The Clan of the Cave Bear

  by Jean M. Auel

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 585

  9 points

  "The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river."

  

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  #93

  The Colour of Magic

  by Terry Pratchett

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 586

  8 points

  "In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part..."

  

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  #94

  The Alchemist

  by Paulo Coelho

  (17 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 591

  7 points

  "The boy's name was Santiago."

  

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  #95

  Katherine

  by Anya Seton

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 598

  6 points

  "In the tender green time of April, Katherine set forth at last upon her journey with two nuns and the royal messenger."

  

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  #96

  Kane and Abel

  by Jeffrey Archer

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 411

  47 points

  "April 18, 1906 - Slonim, Poland - She only stopped screaming when she died."

  

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  #97

  Love in The Time of Cholera

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 126

  153 points

  "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

  

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  #98

  Girls in Love

  by Jacqueline Wilson

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 613

  3 points

  

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  #99

  The Princess Diaries

  by Meg Cabot

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 619

  2 points

  "Tuesday, September 23 Sometimes it seems like all I ever do is lie. "

  

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  #100

  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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