Ultimate Best Books
Ranked by points from the world's most prestigious book lists. How many have you read?
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Ulysses
James Joyce
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want the truth."
Beloved
Toni Morrison
124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children.
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
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