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Ultimate Best Books

List: 100 Books of the Past Century by Koen Books

The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides

Pat Conroy

5.0 (2)

My wound is geography.

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

3.5 (6)

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

#211
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The Killer Angels

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

4.4 (5)

<b>1. THE SPY</B><BR><BR>He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted.

#299
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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

3.9 (10)

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

#101
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Snow Falling on Cedars

Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson

4.17 (6)

The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table - the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible at his own trial.

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The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

4.5 (6)

Selden paused in surprise.

#234
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Kane and Abel

Kane and Abel

Jeffrey Archer

3.67 (3)

April 18, 1906 - Slonim, Poland - She only stopped screaming when she died.

#331
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The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

4.5 (4)

Barrabás came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

#253
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The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers

Rosamunde Pilcher

4.0 (2)

She sometimes thought that for her, Nancy Chamberlain, the most straightforward or innocent occupation was doomed to become, inevitably, fraught with tedious complication.

#338
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Talk Before Sleep

Talk Before Sleep

Elizabeth Berg

3.5 (2)

This morning before I came to Ruth's house, I made yet another casserole for my husband and my daughter.

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