List :: The Big Read by BBC

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  #71

  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

  by Patrick Suskind

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 269

  78 points

  "In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."

  

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  #72

  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

  by Robert Tressell

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 319

  68 points

  

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  #73

  Night Watch

  by Terry Pratchett

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 489

  28 points

  "Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it."

  

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  #74

  Matilda

  by Roald Dahl

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 391

  52 points

  "It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers."

  

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  #75

  Bridget Jones's Diary

  by Helen Fielding

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 360

  59 points

  "I WILL NOT Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week."

  

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  #76

  The Secret History

  by Donna Tartt

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 348

  63 points

  "The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. (Prologue)Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that..."

  

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  #77

  The Woman in White

  by Wilkie Collins

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 118

  164 points

  "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."

  

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  #78

  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 4

  925 points

  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

  

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  #79

  Bleak House

  by Charles Dickens

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 98

  189 points

  "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall."

  

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  #80

  Double Act

  by Jacqueline Wilson

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 520

  21 points

  

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