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  #431

  Infinite Jest

  by David Foster Wallace

  (3 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies."

  

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  #500

  The Last Chronicle of Barset

  by Anthony Trollope

  (4 Reviews)

  26 Points

  "'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge."

  

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  #522

  The Bottle Factory Outing

  by Beryl Bainbridge

  (2 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "The hearse stood outside the block of flats, waiting for the old lady."

  

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  #483

  War and Remembrance

  by Herman Wouk

  (1 Review)

  29 Points

  "A liberty boat full of sleep hung-over sailors came clanging alongside the U.S.S. Northhampton, and a stocky captain in dress whites jumped out to the accommodation ladder."

  

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  #234

  The Way of All Flesh

  by Samuel Butler

  (3 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a..."

  

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  #343

  Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D.

  by Stefan Zweig

  (1 Review)

  64 Points

  

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  #251

  The Magus

  by John Fowles

  (4 Reviews)

  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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  #623

  Hogg

  by Samuel R. Delany

  (4 Reviews)

  1 Points

  

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  #224

  Main Street

  by Sinclair Lewis

  (1 Review)

  90 Points

  "Chapter 1: On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky."

  

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  #596

  The Affluent Society

  by John Kenneth Galbraith

  (1 Review)

  6 Points

  "Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

  

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