List :: Books You Can't Live Without by The Guardian

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  #31

  Anna Karenina

  by Leo Tolstoy

  (26 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 22

  505 points

  "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (C. Garnett, 1946) and (J. Carmichael, 1960)All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy..."

  

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  #32

  David Copperfield

  by Charles Dickens

  (14 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 55

  309 points

  "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I..."

  

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  #33

  The Chronicles of Narnia

  by C. S. Lewis

  (28 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 27

  403 points

  "There is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. (From The Magician's Nephew, first in chronological order)Once there were four children whose names were..."

  

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  #34

  Emma

  by Jane Austen

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 54

  310 points

  "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the..."

  

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  #35

  Persuasion

  by Jane Austen

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 157

  129 points

  "Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation..."

  

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  #33

  The Chronicles of Narnia

  by C. S. Lewis

  (28 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 27

  403 points

  "There is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. (From The Magician's Nephew, first in chronological order)Once there were four children whose names were..."

  

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  #37

  The Kite Runner

  by Khaled Hosseini

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 342

  64 points

  "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975."

  

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  #38

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  by Louis de Bernières

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 102

  183 points

  "Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse."

  

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  #39

  Memoirs of a Geisha

  by Arthur Golden

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 189

  101 points

  "One evening in the spring of 1936, when I was a boy of fourteen, my father took me to a dance performance in Kyoto.Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting..."

  

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  #40

  Winnie-the-Pooh

  by A. A. Milne

  (21 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 31

  383 points

  "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."

  

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