List :: Books of the Century by Waterstone

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  #61

  Brighton Rock

  by Graham Greene

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 162

  125 points

  "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours. [1956 ed.]"

  

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  #62

  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

  by Robert Tressell

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 319

  68 points

  

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  #63

  The Master and Margarita

  by Mikhail Bulgakov

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 153

  130 points

  "One hot spring evening, just as the sun was going down, two men appeared at Patriarch’s Ponds.At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch’s Ponds.Однажды весною,..."

  

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  #64

  Tales of the City

  by Armistead Maupin

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 452

  37 points

  "Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time."

  

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  #65

  The French Lieutenant's Woman

  by John Fowles

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 325

  68 points

  "An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay - Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched south-western leg - and a person of curiosity could at once..."

  

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  #66

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  by Louis de Bernières

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 102

  183 points

  "Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse."

  

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  #67

  Slaughterhouse-Five

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (29 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 34

  358 points

  "All this happened, more or less."

  

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  #68

  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  by Robert M. Pirsig

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 464

  33 points

  "I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning."

  

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  #69

  A Room with a View

  by E. M. Forster

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 123

  156 points

  "The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a...

  

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  #70

  Lucky Jim

  by Kingsley Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 149

  133 points

  "They made a silly mistake, though," the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.

  

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