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Ultimate Best Books

List: The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review

Wise Blood

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

3.0 (3)

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.

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Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

3.0 (8)

I am living at the Villa Borghese.

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A Passage to India

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

3.88 (8)

Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

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Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

2.78 (18)

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.

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Dhalgren

Dhalgren

Samuel R. Delany

2.0 (3)

To wound the autumnal city.

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The Franchiser

The Franchiser

Stanley Elkin

5.0 (1)

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The Soft Machine

The Soft Machine

William S. Burroughs

2.0 (3)

I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running out of veins . . .

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Easy Travel to Other Planets

Easy Travel to Other Planets

Ted Mooney

5.0 (2)

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Neuromancer

Neuromancer

William Gibson

3.0 (5)

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

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More Than Human

More Than Human

Theodore Sturgeon

4.5 (2)

The idiot lived in a black and gray world, punctuated by the white lightning of hunger and the flickering of fear.

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