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  #347

  Gormenghast

  by Mervyn Peake

  (2 Reviews)

  63 Points

  "Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. Suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual: for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone: and yet within his body something..."

  

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  #438

  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  by Betty Smith

  (5 Reviews)

  41 Points

  "Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York."

  

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  #50

  The Handmaid’s Tale

  by Margaret Atwood

  (14 Reviews)

  316 Points

  "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."

  

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  #453

  The Joy Luck Club

  by Amy Tan

  (5 Reviews)

  36 Points

  "The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum."

  

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  #194

  In Our Time

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight."

  

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  #324

  The Sea, the Sea

  by Iris Murdoch

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine."

  

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  #540

  The Death of the Heart

  by Elizabeth Bowen

  (2 Reviews)

  17 Points

  "That mornining's ice, no more than brittle film, had cracked and was now floating in segments."

  

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  #310

  The Story of Tracy Beaker

  by Jacqueline Wilson

  (6 Reviews)

  70 Points

  

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  #529

  The Razor's Edge

  by W. Somerset Maugham

  (2 Reviews)

  19 Points

  "I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it."

  

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  #229

  The Second Sex

  by Simone de Beauvoir

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "Woman?"

  

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