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

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  #61

  A Room with a View

  by E. M. Forster

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 123

  156 points

  "The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a...

  

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  #62

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 388

  53 points

  "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the..."

  

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  #63

  White Noise

  by Don DeLillo

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 109

  178 points

  "The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus."

  

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  #64

  A Thousand Acres

  by Jane Smiley

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 141

  137 points

  "At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."

  

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  #65

  The Joy Luck Club

  by Amy Tan

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 453

  36 points

  "The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum."

  

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  #66

  Tender is the Night

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 131

  147 points

  "The hotel and its bright, tan prayer rug of a beach were one.On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud,..."

  

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  #67

  Little Women

  by Louisa May Alcott

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 38

  348 points

  "“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."

  

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  #68

  For Whom the Bell Tolls

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 46

  322 points

  "He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."

  

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  #69

  Ellen Foster

  by Kaye Gibbons

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 467

  32 points

  "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my Daddy."

  

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  #70

  Cold Sassy Tree

  by Olive Ann Burns

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 471

  31 points

  "Three weeks after Granny Blakeslee died, Grandpa came to our house for his early morning snort of whiskey, as usual, and said to me, "Will Tweedy? Go find your mama, then run up to yore Aunt Loma's..."

  

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