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Ultimate Best Books

List: 100 Books of the Past Century by Koen Books

The Good Earth

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

3.86 (7)

It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

#128
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Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

4.5 (6)

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.

#123
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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

4.09 (23)

It was a pleasure to burn.

#42
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Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

3.0 (1)

I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne.

#343
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The Killer Angels

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

4.4 (5)

<b>1. THE SPY</B><BR><BR>He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted.

#299
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The Shipping News

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

3.63 (8)

Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns.

#165
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Snow Falling on Cedars

Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson

4.17 (6)

The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table - the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible at his own trial.

#204
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The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

4.5 (4)

Barrabás came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

#253
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The Color of Water

The Color of Water

James McBride

5.0 (1)

As a boy, I never knew where my mother was from -- where she was born, who her parents were.

#370
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The Bean Trees

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

4.5 (4)

I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbines's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign.

#263
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