Best Books Ever Written

13 "Best Books" lists combined and condensed into one master best books list, for the benefit of your reading pleasure. 623 of the best books ever written - can you collect them all?

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  #151

  If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

  by Italo Calvino

  (5 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.Stai per cominciare a leggere il nuovo romanzo Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore di Italo Calvino."

  

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  #152

  Life

  by Georges Perec

  (3 Reviews)

  130 Points

  " PreambleTo begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance....PART ONE, CHAPTER ONEYes, it could begin this way, right here, just like that, in a rather slow and ponderous way, in..."

  

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  #153

  The Master and Margarita

  by Mikhail Bulgakov

  (11 Reviews)

  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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  #154

  The Good Earth

  by Pearl S. Buck

  (7 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "It was Wang Lung's marriage day."

  

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  #155

  Henderson the Rain King

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated."

  

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  #156

  Ironweed

  by William J. Kennedy

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "Riding up the winding road of Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of the rattling old truck, Francis Phelan became aware that the dead, even more than the living, settled down in neighborhoods."

  

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  #157

  Persuasion

  by Jane Austen

  (15 Reviews)

  129 Points

  "Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation..."

  

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  #158

  The Rainbow

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (2 Reviews)

  128 Points

  "The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire."

  

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  #159

  A Dance to the Music of Time

  by Anthony Powell

  (2 Reviews)

  127 Points

  "The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of a camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of..."

  

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  #160

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  by Milan Kundera

  (9 Reviews)

  126 Points

  "La idea del eterno retorno es misteriosa y con ella Nietzsche dejó perplejo a los demás filósofos...The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other..."

  

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