List :: Top 100 Books by Newsweek

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  #71

  Sons and Lovers

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 77

  232 points

  "The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

  

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  #72

  All the King's Men

  by Robert Penn Warren

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 90

  207 points

  "MASON CITY. To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it."

  

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  #73

  Go Tell It on the Mountain

  by James Baldwin

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 89

  208 points

  "Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father."

  

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  #74

  Charlotte's Web

  by E. B. White

  (26 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 75

  236 points

  "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."

  

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  #75

  Heart of Darkness

  by Joseph Conrad

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 32

  382 points

  "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."

  

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  #76

  Night

  by Elie Wiesel

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 501

  25 points

  "They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life."

  

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  #77

  Rabbit, Run

  by John Updike

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 209

  95 points

  "Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. "

  

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  #78

  The Age of Innocence

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 60

  292 points

  "On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."

  

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  #79

  Portnoy's Complaint

  by Philip Roth

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 299

  71 points

  "She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seemed to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise."

  

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  #80

  An American Tragedy

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 108

  179 points

  "Dusk - of a summer night."

  

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