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

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  #81

  A Christmas Carol

  by Charles Dickens

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 289

  74 points

  "Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it:..."

  

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  #82

  Cloud Atlas

  by David Mitchell

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 523

  21 points

  "Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints."

  

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  #83

  The Color Purple

  by Alice Walker

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 28

  392 points

  "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."

  

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  #84

  The Remains of the day

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 127

  153 points

  "It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."

  

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  #85

  Madame Bovary

  by Gustave Flaubert

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 48

  322 points

  "Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."

  

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  #86

  A Fine Balance

  by Rohinton Mistry

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 544

  15 points

  "The morning express bloated with passengers slowed to a crawl, then lurched forward suddenly, as though to resume full speed. "

  

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  #87

  Charlotte's Web

  by E. B. White

  (26 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 75

  236 points

  "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."

  

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  #88

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  by Mitch Albom

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 558

  13 points

  "This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."

  

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  #89

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 564

  12 points

  "To Sherlock Holmes she is always ithe/i woman."

  

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  #90

  The Faraway Tree Stories

  by Enid Blyton

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 415

  46 points

  

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