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Ultimate Best Books

List: The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review

Crash

Crash

J. G. Ballard

3.0 (4)

Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.

#395
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the man in the high castle

the man in the high castle

Philip K. Dick

3.67 (3)

For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail.

#397
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Housekeeping

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

3.75 (4)

My name is Ruth.

#334
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The Recognitions

The Recognitions

William Gaddis

3.33 (3)

Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at the critical moment it presumes itself as reality.

#522
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The Stain

The Stain

Rikki Ducornet

3.0 (1)

#568
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389
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The Sot-Weed Factor

The Sot-Weed Factor

John Barth

5.0 (2)

In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and the fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talanted, and yet more talanted than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her than her sense to labor over, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship, had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with <i>Joves</i> and <i>Jupiters</i>, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similies stretched to the snapping point.

#493
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The Cannibal

The Cannibal

John Hawkes

2.0 (1)

#559
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In Memoriam to Identity

In Memoriam to Identity

Kathy Acker

3.0 (1)

#617
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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

3.9 (10)

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

#101
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The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

4.5 (6)

Selden paused in surprise.

#234
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