Ultimate Best Books
Ranked by points from the world's most prestigious book lists. How many have you read?
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
How does one describe Artemis Fowl? (Prologue)Ho Chi Minh City in the summer.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
It was 7 minutes after midnight.
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm
That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line.
Testament of Youth
Vera Brittain
When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair.
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Flannery O'Connor
The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida.
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