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Ultimate Best Books

List: Top 100 Books by Harvard Book Store

Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

4.22 (9)

I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time.

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The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

4.14 (14)

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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You Shall Know Our Velocity

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Dave Eggers

3.0 (1)

I was talking to Hand, one of my two best friends, the one still alive, and we were planning to leave.

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The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

4.38 (8)

In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.

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High Fidelity

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby

3.0 (3)

My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:<br>1) Alison Ashworth<br>2) Penny Hardwick<br>3) Jackie Allen<br>4) Charlie Nicholson<br>5) Sarah Kendrew.

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Housekeeping

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

3.75 (4)

My name is Ruth.

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Catch-22

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

4.06 (31)

It was love at first sight.

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

3.67 (6)

In merry England in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood.

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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

5.0 (1)

Six years after the fact, Dr. Paul Edward Farmer reminded me, "We met because of a beheading, of all things."

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Dealing with Dragons

Dealing with Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede

4.67 (3)

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 their armor brightly polished mainly for show -- it had been centuries since a dragon had come east. There were the usual periodic problems with royal children and uninvited fairy godmothers, but they were always the sort of thing that could be cleared up by finding the proper prince or princess to marry the unfortunate child a few years later. All in all, Linderwall was a very prosperous and pleasant place. Cimorene hated it.

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