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  #182

  Far from the Madding Crowd

  by Thomas Hardy

  (8 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them,..."

  

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  #135

  Possession

  by A.S. Byatt

  (6 Reviews)

  142 Points

  "The book was thick and black and covered with dust."

  

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  #230

  The Awakening

  by Kate Chopin

  (7 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!""

  

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  #186

  The Little Prince

  by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  (24 Reviews)

  106 Points

  "Once when I was six years old I saw a beautiful picture in a book about the primeval forest called "True Stories"."

  

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  #187

  The Red Badge of Courage

  by Stephen Crane

  (7 Reviews)

  104 Points

  "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

  

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  #350

  The Shell Seekers

  by Rosamunde Pilcher

  (2 Reviews)

  62 Points

  "She sometimes thought that for her, Nancy Chamberlain, the most straightforward or innocent occupation was doomed to become, inevitably, fraught with tedious complication."

  

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  #498

  Centennial

  by James A. Michener

  (3 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of..."

  

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  #5

  Lolita

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (36 Reviews)

  856 Points

  "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."

  

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  #242

  In Cold Blood

  by Truman Capote

  (12 Reviews)

  86 Points

  "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there'."

  

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  #419

  The Satanic Verses

  by Salman Rushdie

  (5 Reviews)

  46 Points

  "To be born again " sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."

  

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