Best Books Ever Written

13 "Best Books" lists combined and condensed into one master best books list, for the benefit of your reading pleasure. 623 of the best books ever written - can you collect them all?

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  #111

  Atonement

  by Ian McEwan

  (10 Reviews)

  176 Points

  "The play – for which Briony had designed posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper – was..."

  

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  #112

  Nostromo

  by Joseph Conrad

  (5 Reviews)

  173 Points

  "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

  

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  #113

  The House of Mirth

  by Edith Wharton

  (6 Reviews)

  172 Points

  "Selden paused in surprise."

  

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  #114

  The Brothers Karamazov

  by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  (9 Reviews)

  168 Points

  "Alexey Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his tragic and obscure..."

  

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  #115

  The Good Soldier

  by Ford Madox Ford

  (7 Reviews)

  168 Points

  "This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

  

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  #116

  The Name of the Rose

  by Umberto Eco

  (12 Reviews)

  166 Points

  "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

  

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  #117

  The Shipping News

  by Annie Proulx

  (8 Reviews)

  164 Points

  "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."

  

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  #118

  The Woman in White

  by Wilkie Collins

  (6 Reviews)

  164 Points

  "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."

  

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  #119

  Herzog

  by Saul Bellow

  (3 Reviews)

  162 Points

  "If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."

  

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  #120

  The Counterfeiters

  by Andre Gide

  (5 Reviews)

  162 Points

  "The time has now come for me to hear a step in the passage," said Bernard to himself.

  

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