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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  #21

  Middlemarch

  by George Eliot

  (12 Reviews)

  519 Points

  "Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not..."

  

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  #22

  Anna Karenina

  by Leo Tolstoy

  (26 Reviews)

  505 Points

  "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (C. Garnett, 1946) and (J. Carmichael, 1960)All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy..."

  

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  #23

  Animal Farm

  by George Orwell

  (46 Reviews)

  495 Points

  "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."

  

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  #24

  A Passage to India

  by E. M. Forster

  (8 Reviews)

  469 Points

  "Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."

  

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  #25

  In Search of Lost Time

  by Marcel Proust

  (7 Reviews)

  455 Points

  "For a long time, I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]"

  

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  #26

  Wuthering Heights

  by Emily Brontë

  (32 Reviews)

  417 Points

  

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  #27

  The Chronicles of Narnia

  by C. S. Lewis

  (28 Reviews)

  403 Points

  "There is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. (From The Magician's Nephew, first in chronological order)Once there were four children whose names were..."

  

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  #28

  The Color Purple

  by Alice Walker

  (15 Reviews)

  392 Points

  "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."

  

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  #29

  Midnight's Children

  by Salman Rushdie

  (9 Reviews)

  391 Points

  "I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time."

  

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  #30

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  by James Joyce

  (9 Reviews)

  389 Points

  "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."

  

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