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Ultimate Best Books

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Explore rankings, reviews, and reader lists for every book in the catalog.

Das Kapital

Das Kapital

Karl Marx

3.0 (1)

#321
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1,762
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Cider with Rosie

Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee

4.0 (3)

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

#408
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1,113
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The Prince

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

4.0 (7)

All the states, all the dominions under whose authority men have lived in the past and live now have been and are either republics or principalities.It is customary for those who wish to gain the favour of a prince to endeavour to do so by offering him gifts of those things which they hold most precious, or in which they know him to take especial delight.

#148
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5,040
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The Horseman on the Roof

The Horseman on the Roof

Jean Giono

0.0 (0)

#565
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399
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The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer

4.0 (3)

Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.

#347
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1,568
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Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

3.53 (15)

"Who is John Galt?"

#147
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5,046
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Suite Française

Suite Française

Irene Nemirovsky

5.0 (3)

Hot, thought the Parisians.

#385
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1,307
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

5.0 (1)

Six years after the fact, Dr. Paul Edward Farmer reminded me, "We met because of a beheading, of all things."

#439
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959
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Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons

4.2 (5)

The education bestowed upon Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of influenza or Spanish Plague which occured in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

#285
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2,008
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The Story of Tracy Beaker

The Story of Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson

3.33 (6)

#335
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1,695
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