List :: Books of the Century by Waterstone

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  #92

  Jurassic Park

  by Michael Crichton

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 582

  9 points

  "The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering."

  

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  #93

  The Alexandria Quartet

  by Lawrence Durrell

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 445

  39 points

  "The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind."BALTHAZAR" - Landscape-toes: brown to bronze, steep skyline, low cloud, pearl ground with shadowed oyster and violet reflections...."

  

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  #94

  Cry, the Beloved Country

  by Alan Paton

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 593

  7 points

  "There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills."

  

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  #95

  High Fidelity

  by Nick Hornby

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 409

  48 points

  "My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order: 1) Alison Ashworth 2) Penny Hardwick 3) Jackie Allen 4) Charlie Nicholson 5) Sarah Kendrew."

  

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  #96

  The Van

  by Roddy Doyle

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 604

  5 points

  "Jimmy Rabbitte Sr. had the kitchen to himself. "

  

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  #97

  The BFG

  by Roald Dahl

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 351

  62 points

  "Sophie couldn't sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. It was shining right onto her pillow."

  

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  #98

  Earthly Powers

  by Anthony Burgess

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 614

  3 points

  "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

  

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  #99

  I, Claudius

  by Robert Graves

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 129

  151 points

  "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives..."

  

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  #100

  The Horse Whisperer

  by Nicholas Evans

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 622

  1 points

  "There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end."

  

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