List :: Top 100 Books by Harvard Book Store

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  #41

  The Histories

  by Herodotus

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 147

  133 points

  "This is the showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos so that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been..."

  

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  #42

  The Sound and the Fury

  by William Faulkner

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 9

  703 points

  "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."

  

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  #43

  A Wild Sheep Chase

  by Haruki Murakami

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 365

  58 points

  "It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition."

  

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  #44

  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (97 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 1

  994 points

  "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

  

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  #45

  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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  #46

  The Phantom Tollbooth

  by Norton Juster

  (14 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 377

  55 points

  "There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always."

  

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  #47

  Housekeeping

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 167

  118 points

  "My name is Ruth."

  

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  #48

  Dealing with Dragons

  by Patricia C. Wrede

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 385

  53 points

  "Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable. The climate was unremarkable. The knights kept..."

  

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  #49

  The Bell Jar

  by Sylvia Plath

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 137

  141 points

  "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

  

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  #50

  Cannery Row

  by John Steinbeck

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 192

  101 points

  "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."

  

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