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Ultimate Best Books

List: 100 Books of the Past Century by Koen Books

Beloved

Beloved

Toni Morrison

4.07 (14)

124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children.

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Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run

John Updike

4.25 (4)

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

#221
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The Alienist

The Alienist

Caleb Carr

4.33 (3)

<i>January 8th, 1919</i><br> Theodore is in the ground.

#349
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Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

4.29 (7)

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

#188
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The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides

Pat Conroy

5.0 (2)

My wound is geography.

#284
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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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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.

#204
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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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