List :: Books of the Century by Waterstone

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  #11

  Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

  by Jung Chang

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 226

  90 points

  "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China."

  

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  #12

  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (97 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 1

  994 points

  "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

  

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  #13

  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  (45 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 20

  537 points

  "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."

  

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  #14

  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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  #15

  Brave New World

  by Aldous Huxley

  (30 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 13

  664 points

  "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

  

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  #16

  The Wind in the Willows

  by Kenneth Grahame

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 49

  318 points

  "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. "

  

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  #17

  Winnie-the-Pooh

  by A. A. Milne

  (21 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 31

  383 points

  "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."

  

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  #18

  The Color Purple

  by Alice Walker

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 28

  392 points

  "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."

  

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  #19

  The Hobbit

  by J. R. R. Tolkien

  (29 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 47

  322 points

  "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to..."

  

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  #20

  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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