List :: Top 100 Books by Newsweek

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  #91

  Silent Spring

  by Rachel Carson

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 504

  24 points

  "In a letter written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world made lifeless, and so brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had..."

  

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  #92

  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

  by John Maynard Keynes

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 584

  9 points

  

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  #93

  Lord Jim

  by Joseph Conrad

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 338

  65 points

  "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think..."

  

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  #94

  Goodbye to All That

  by Robert Graves

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 592

  7 points

  "As a proof of my readiness to accept autobiographical conventions, let me at once record my two earliest memories."

  

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  #95

  The Affluent Society

  by John Kenneth Galbraith

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 596

  6 points

  "Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

  

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  #96

  The Wind in the Willows

  by Kenneth Grahame

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 49

  318 points

  "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. "

  

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  #97

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  by Malcolm X

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 606

  4 points

  "When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night."

  

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  #98

  Eminent Victorians

  by Lytton Strachey

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 615

  3 points

  "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it."

  

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  #99

  The Color Purple

  by Alice Walker

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 28

  392 points

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

  

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  #100

  The Second World War

  by Winston S. Churchill

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 620

  1 points

  

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