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List: Top 100 Books by Harvard Book Store

Orlando: A Biography

Orlando: A Biography

Virginia Woolf

3.25 (4)

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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You Shall Know Our Velocity

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Dave Eggers

3.0 (1)

I was talking to Hand, one of my two best friends, the one still alive, and we were planning to leave.

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Watchmen

Watchmen

Alan Moore

4.7 (10)

Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: <br>Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

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Commedia

Commedia

Dante Alighieri

3.17 (6)

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita/mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,/chè la diritta via era smarrita.Mildway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

4.41 (64)

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

5.0 (3)

This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country.

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In Our Time

In Our Time

Ernest Hemingway

4.33 (3)

The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight.

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

4.17 (35)

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.

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The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

4.45 (11)

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, в час небывало жаркого заката, в Москве, на Патриаршихbrпрудах, появились два гражданина.Op een broeihete lentedag daagden omtrent zonsondergang twee burgers op in het park rond de Patriarchvijver.

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The Sea, the Sea

The Sea, the Sea

Iris Murdoch

3.5 (2)

The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine.

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