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  #189

  Memoirs of a Geisha

  by Arthur Golden

  (13 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "One evening in the spring of 1936, when I was a boy of fourteen, my father took me to a dance performance in Kyoto.Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting..."

  

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  #521

  James and the Giant Peach

  by Roald Dahl

  (12 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "Until he was four years old, James Henry Trotter had a happy life."

  

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  #227

  Nightmare Abbey

  by Thomas Love Peacock

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county..."

  

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  #476

  It

  by Stephen King

  (9 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made out of a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter..."

  

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  #156

  Ironweed

  by William J. Kennedy

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "Riding up the winding road of Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of the rattling old truck, Francis Phelan became aware that the dead, even more than the living, settled down in neighborhoods."

  

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  #393

  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  by Agatha Christie

  (4 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "Mrs Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September—a Thursday."

  

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  #619

  The Princess Diaries

  by Meg Cabot

  (2 Reviews)

  2 Points

  "Tuesday, September 23 Sometimes it seems like all I ever do is lie. "

  

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  #31

  Winnie-the-Pooh

  by A. A. Milne

  (21 Reviews)

  383 Points

  "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."

  

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  #488

  Where the Wild Things Are

  by Maurice Sendak

  (15 Reviews)

  28 Points

  "The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him wild thing. And so he said, "I'll eat you UP!" And so he was sent to bed without eating anything."

  

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  #97

  The Diary of a Young Girl

  by Anne Frank

  (19 Reviews)

  193 Points

  "On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o' clock and no wonder; it was my birthday"

  

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