List :: 100 Books of the Past Century by Koen Books

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  #81

  The Bell Jar

  by Sylvia Plath

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 137

  141 points

  "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

  

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  #82

  The Fountainhead

  by Ayn Rand

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 274

  77 points

  "Howard Roark laughed."

  

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  #83

  The Godfather

  by Mario Puzo

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 492

  28 points

  "Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court No. 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her."

  

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  #84

  Howards End

  by E. M. Forster

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 103

  182 points

  "One may as well begin with Helens letters to her sister."

  

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  #85

  Naked Lunch

  by William S. Burroughs

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 427

  44 points

  "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil-doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square station,..."

  

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  #86

  The Thornbirds

  by Colleen McCullough

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 392

  52 points

  "On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday."

  

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  #87

  Silent Spring

  by Rachel Carson

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 504

  24 points

  "In a letter written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world made lifeless, and so brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had..."

  

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  #88

  The Alienist

  by Caleb Carr

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 562

  13 points

  "January 8th, 1919 Theodore is in the ground."

  

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  #89

  Talk Before Sleep

  by Elizabeth Berg

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 567

  12 points

  "This morning before I came to Ruth's house, I made yet another casserole for my husband and my daughter."

  

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  #90

  The Shell Seekers

  by Rosamunde Pilcher

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 350

  62 points

  "She sometimes thought that for her, Nancy Chamberlain, the most straightforward or innocent occupation was doomed to become, inevitably, fraught with tedious complication."

  

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