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  #473

  The Martian Chronicles

  by Ray Bradbury

  (7 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in..."

  

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  #179

  Schindler's List

  by Thomas Keneally

  (5 Reviews)

  110 Points

  "In Poland's deepest autumn, a tall young man in an expensive overcoat, double-breasted dinner jacket beneath it and - in the lapel of the dinner jacket - a large ornamental gold-on-black enamel ..."

  

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  #427

  Naked Lunch

  by William S. Burroughs

  (6 Reviews)

  44 Points

  "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil-doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square station,..."

  

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  #609

  Where Angels Fear to Tread

  by E. M. Forster

  (3 Reviews)

  3 Points

  "They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off--Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself."

  

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  #491

  Tlooth

  by Harry Mathews

  (1 Review)

  28 Points

  "Mannish Madame Nevtaya slowly cried "Fur bowls!" and the Fideist batter, alert to the sense behind the sound of her words, jogged toward first base."

  

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  #603

  A People's History of the United States

  by Howard Zinn

  (2 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat."

  

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  A Passage to India

  by E. M. Forster

  (8 Reviews)

  469 Points

  "Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."

  

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  #130

  Tropic of Cancer

  by Henry Miller

  (8 Reviews)

  151 Points

  "I am living at the Villa Borghese."

  

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  #490

  Tropismes

  by Nathalie Sarraute

  (1 Review)

  28 Points

  

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  #70

  Song of Solomon

  by Toni Morrison

  (7 Reviews)

  250 Points

  "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."

  

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