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  #197

  Breakfast of Champions

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (6 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "This is the tale of a meeting of two lonely, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast."

  

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  #387

  The Home and the World

  by Rabindranath Tagore

  (3 Reviews)

  53 Points

  

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  #112

  Nostromo

  by Joseph Conrad

  (5 Reviews)

  173 Points

  "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

  

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  #612

  Tours of the Black Clock

  by Steve Erickson

  (2 Reviews)

  3 Points

  

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  #308

  Mountains Beyond Mountains

  by Tracy Kidder

  (1 Review)

  70 Points

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

  

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  #617

  Hawaii

  by James A. Michener

  (1 Review)

  2 Points

  "Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that..."

  

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  #7

  The Catcher in the Rye

  by J. D. Salinger

  (45 Reviews)

  735 Points

  "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...

  

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  #152

  Life

  by Georges Perec

  (3 Reviews)

  130 Points

  " PreambleTo begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance....PART ONE, CHAPTER ONEYes, it could begin this way, right here, just like that, in a rather slow and ponderous way, in..."

  

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  #9

  The Sound and the Fury

  by William Faulkner

  (15 Reviews)

  703 Points

  "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."

  

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  #202

  Cat's Cradle

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (7 Reviews)

  97 Points

  "Call me Jonah."

  

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