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  #409

  High Fidelity

  by Nick Hornby

  (3 Reviews)

  48 Points

  "My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order: 1) Alison Ashworth 2) Penny Hardwick 3) Jackie Allen 4) Charlie Nicholson 5) Sarah Kendrew."

  

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  #587

  More Than Human

  by Theodore Sturgeon

  (2 Reviews)

  8 Points

  "The idiot lived in a black and gray world, punctuated by the white lightning of hunger and the flickering of fear."

  

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  #165

  A Bend in the River

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (2 Reviews)

  120 Points

  "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

  

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  #346

  The Riddle of the Sands

  by Erskine Childers

  (2 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude - save for a few black faces - have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain..."

  

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  #159

  A Dance to the Music of Time

  by Anthony Powell

  (2 Reviews)

  127 Points

  "The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of a camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of..."

  

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  #446

  The Ballad of the Salt Sea

  by Hugo Pratt

  (1 Review)

  39 Points

  

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  #65

  The Golden Notebook

  by Doris Lessing

  (4 Reviews)

  266 Points

  "The two women were alone in the London flat."

  

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  #263

  Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  by Joan Didion

  (3 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country."

  

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  #439

  Half of a Yellow Sun

  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  (2 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair."

  

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  #470

  Berlin Alexanderplatz

  by Alfred Döblin

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "He stood in front of the Tegel Prison gate and was free now."

  

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