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

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  #11

  Their Eyes Were Watching God

  by Zora Neale Hurston

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 52

  312 points

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

  

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  #12

  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  (45 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 20

  537 points

  "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."

  

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  #13

  Animal Farm

  by George Orwell

  (46 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 23

  495 points

  "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."

  

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  #14

  Stranger in a Strange Land

  by Robert A. Heinlein

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 241

  87 points

  "Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith."

  

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  #15

  A Confederacy of Dunces

  by John Kennedy Toole

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 136

  142 points

  "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on..."

  

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  #16

  Invisible Man

  by Ralph Ellison

  (16 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 15

  640 points

  "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—...

  

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  #17

  The Handmaid’s Tale

  by Margaret Atwood

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 50

  316 points

  "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."

  

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  #18

  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 4

  925 points

  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

  

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  #19

  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (23 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 42

  335 points

  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

  

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  #20

  Slaughterhouse-Five

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (29 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 34

  358 points

  "All this happened, more or less."

  

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