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  #309

  Cold Comfort Farm

  by Stella Gibbons

  (5 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "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..."

  

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  Loving

  by Henry Green

  (1 Review)

  12 Points

  

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  #572

  Money

  by Martin Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  11 Points

  "As my cab pulled of FDR Drive, somewhere in the early Hundreds, a low-slung Tomohawk full of black guys came sharking out of lane and slopped in fast right across our bows."

  

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  #42

  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (23 Reviews)

  335 Points

  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

  

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  #271

  The Secret Garden

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  (15 Reviews)

  78 Points

  "When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen."

  

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  #153

  The Master and Margarita

  by Mikhail Bulgakov

  (11 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "One hot spring evening, just as the sun was going down, two men appeared at Patriarch’s Ponds.At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch’s Ponds.Однажды весною,..."

  

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  #342

  The Kite Runner

  by Khaled Hosseini

  (12 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975."

  

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  #492

  The Godfather

  by Mario Puzo

  (6 Reviews)

  28 Points

  "Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court No. 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her."

  

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  #100

  The Scarlet Letter

  by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  (19 Reviews)

  187 Points

  "A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the..."

  

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  #513

  A Brief History of Time

  by Stephen Hawking

  (3 Reviews)

  22 Points

  "A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy."

  

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