List :: Top 100 Books by Newsweek

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  #21

  The Grapes of Wrath

  by John Steinbeck

  (35 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 2

  963 points

  "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

  

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  #22

  Midnight's Children

  by Salman Rushdie

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 29

  391 points

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

  

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  #23

  Brave New World

  by Aldous Huxley

  (30 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 13

  664 points

  "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

  

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  #24

  Mrs Dalloway

  by Virginia Woolf

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 33

  365 points

  "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa..."

  

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  #25

  Native Son

  by Richard Wright

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 39

  348 points

  "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."

  

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  #26

  Democracy in America; and Two essays on America

  by Alexis de Tocqueville

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 287

  75 points

  

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  #27

  On the Origin of Species

  by Charles Darwin

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 292

  74 points

  "When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past..."

  

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  #28

  The Histories

  by Herodotus

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 147

  133 points

  "This is the showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos so that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been..."

  

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  #29

  On the Social Contract

  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 297

  72 points

  "My purpose is to consider if, in political society, there can be any legitimate and sure principle of government, taking men as they are and laws as they might be."

  

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  #30

  Das Kapital

  by Karl Marx

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 301

  71 points

  

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