List :: Books of the Century by Waterstone

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  #41

  Sophie's World

  by Jostein Gaarder

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 356

  60 points

  "Sophie Amundsen was on her way home from school."

  

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  #42

  The Name of the Rose

  by Umberto Eco

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 116

  166 points

  "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

  

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  #43

  Love in The Time of Cholera

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 126

  153 points

  "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

  

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  #44

  Rebecca

  by Daphne du Maurier

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 43

  333 points

  "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

  

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  #45

  The Remains of the day

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  (8 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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  #46

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  by Milan Kundera

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 160

  126 points

  "La idea del eterno retorno es misteriosa y con ella Nietzsche dejó perplejo a los demás filósofos...The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other..."

  

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  #47

  Birdsong

  by Sebastian Faulks

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 80

  226 points

  "The boulevard du cange was a broad, quiet street that marked the eastern flank of the city of Amiens."

  

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  #48

  Howards End

  by E. M. Forster

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 103

  182 points

  "One may as well begin with Helens letters to her sister."

  

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  #49

  Brideshead Revisited

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 64

  269 points

  "When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."

  

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  #50

  A Suitable Boy

  by Vikram Seth

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 134

  143 points

  "'You too will marry a boy I choose' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter."

  

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