Genre :: Adult (7 books)

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  #5

  Lolita

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (35 Reviews)

  856 Points

  "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."

  

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  #36

  Of Mice and Men

  by John Steinbeck

  (37 Reviews)

  349 Points

  "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

  

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  #53

  A Prayer for Owen Meany

  by John Irving

  (8 Reviews)

  311 Points

  "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but..."

  

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  #158

  The Rainbow

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (2 Reviews)

  128 Points

  "The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire."

  

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  #342

  The Kite Runner

  by Khaled Hosseini

  (12 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975."

  

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  #532

  O Pioneers!

  by Willa Cather

  (4 Reviews)

  18 Points

  "One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the..."

  

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  #593

  Cry, the Beloved Country

  by Alan Paton

  (2 Reviews)

  7 Points

  "There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills."

  

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