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  #481

  The Death of Artemio Cruz

  by Carlos Fuentes

  (2 Reviews)

  29 Points

  "I wake ... the touch of that cold object against my penis awakens me."

  

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  #604

  The Van

  by Roddy Doyle

  (1 Review)

  5 Points

  "Jimmy Rabbitte Sr. had the kitchen to himself. "

  

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  #497

  Notes from a small island

  by Bill Bryson

  (5 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "My first sight of England was on a foggy March night in 1973 when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais."

  

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  #282

  Waiting for the Barbarians

  by J. M. Coetzee

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?"

  

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  #293

  Sula

  by Toni Morrison

  (3 Reviews)

  73 Points

  "In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from the roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood."

  

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  #287

  Democracy in America; and Two essays on America

  by Alexis de Tocqueville

  (3 Reviews)

  75 Points

  

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  #465

  Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

  by Grace Paley

  (1 Review)

  32 Points

  

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  #369

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

  by John Buchan

  (3 Reviews)

  57 Points

  "I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life."

  

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  #511

  Little, Big

  by John Crowley

  (4 Reviews)

  23 Points

  "On a certain day in June, 19--, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of but had never visited."

  

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  #80

  Birdsong

  by Sebastian Faulks

  (6 Reviews)

  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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