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  #295

  The Tartar Steppe

  by Dino Buzzati

  (1 Review)

  72 Points

  "One September morning, Giovanni Drogo, being newly commissioned, set out from the city for Fort Bastiani; it was his first posting."

  

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  #606

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  by Malcolm X

  (1 Review)

  4 Points

  "When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night."

  

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  #537

  Darconville's Cat

  by Alexander Theroux

  (1 Review)

  17 Points

  

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  #442

  Red Harvest

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (3 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte."

  

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  #452

  Tales of the City

  by Armistead Maupin

  (3 Reviews)

  37 Points

  "Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time."

  

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  #460

  A Separate Peace

  by John Knowles

  (3 Reviews)

  34 Points

  "I went back to Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before."

  

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  #507

  The road from Coorain

  by Jill Ker Conway

  (3 Reviews)

  24 Points

  "The western plains of New South Wales are grasslands."

  

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  #469

  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

  by John le Carré

  (4 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all."

  

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  #554

  Drown

  by Junot Diaz

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  

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  #553

  The Old Wives' Tale

  by Arnold Bennett

  (2 Reviews)

  14 Points

  "Those two girls, Constance and Sopha Baines, paid no heed to the manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had never been conscious."

  

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