List :: 100 Books of the Past Century by Koen Books

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  #91

  Rubyfruit Jungle

  by Rita Mae Brown

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 581

  10 points

  "No one remembers her beginnings."

  

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  #92

  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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  #93

  The Prince of Tides

  by Pat Conroy

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 590

  8 points

  "My wound is geography."

  

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  #94

  Possession

  by A.S. Byatt

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 135

  142 points

  "The book was thick and black and covered with dust."

  

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  #95

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  by Ken Kesey

  (16 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 163

  122 points

  "They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them."They're out there.

  

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  #96

  Main Street

  by Sinclair Lewis

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 224

  90 points

  "Chapter 1: On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky."

  

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  #97

  I, Claudius

  by Robert Graves

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 129

  151 points

  "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives..."

  

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  #98

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  by Louis de Bernières

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 102

  183 points

  "Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse."

  

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  #99

  Hawaii

  by James A. Michener

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 617

  2 points

  "Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that..."

  

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  #100

  The Education of Little Tree

  by Forrest Carter

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 621

  1 points

  

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