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  #61

  Noughts & Crosses

  by Malorie Blackman

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 443

  40 points

  "'Honestly, Mrs Hadley,' said Meggie McGregor, wiping her eyes.'Honestly, Mrs Hadley,' said Meggie McGregor, wiping her eyes. 'That sense of humour of yours will be he death of me yet!'"

  

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  #62

  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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  #63

  A Tale of Two Cities

  by Charles Dickens

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 258

  82 points

  "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of..."

  

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  #64

  The Thornbirds

  by Colleen McCullough

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 392

  52 points

  "On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday."

  

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  #65

  Mort

  by Terry Pratchett

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 454

  36 points

  "This is the bright candlelit room where the lifetimers are stored - shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for ever living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past."

  

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  #66

  The Faraway Tree Stories

  by Enid Blyton

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 415

  46 points

  

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  #67

  The Magus

  by John Fowles

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 251

  83 points

  "I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that..."

  

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  #68

  Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  by Neil Gaiman

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 316

  68 points

  "It was a nice day."

  

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  #69

  Guards! Guards!

  by Terry Pratchett

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 466

  32 points

  "This is where the dragons went."

  

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  #70

  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  (45 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 20

  537 points

  "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."

  

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