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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  #251

  The Magus

  by John Fowles

  (4 Reviews)

  83 Points

  "I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that..."

  

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  #252

  The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

  by Selma Lagerlöf

  (2 Reviews)

  83 Points

  

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  #253

  The Blue Lotus

  by Hergé

  (4 Reviews)

  83 Points

  

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  #254

  The Naked and the Dead

  by Norman Mailer

  (1 Review)

  83 Points

  "Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assult craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on he beach at Anopopei. All over the ship, all through..."

  

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  #255

  Orlando: A Biography

  by Virginia Woolf

  (3 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "He - for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it - was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."

  

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  #256

  Hunger

  by Knut Hamsun

  (3 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set his mark upon him. . .Det var i den tid jeg gikk omkring og sultet i..."

  

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  #257

  The Time Traveler's Wife

  by Audrey Niffenegger

  (13 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "PROLOGUE - Clare: It's hard being left behind.FIRST DATE, ONE Saturday, October 26, 1991 (Henry is 28, Clare is 20) Clare: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see..."

  

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  #258

  A Tale of Two Cities

  by Charles Dickens

  (10 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of..."

  

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  #259

  A Wrinkle in Time

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  (12 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom Meg Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind."

  

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  #260

  Les Misérables

  by Victor Hugo

  (19 Reviews)

  81 Points

  "In the Year 1815 Monseigneur Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne."

  

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