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  #451

  The Lovely Bones

  by Alice Sebold

  (11 Reviews)

  37 Points

  "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. "

  

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  #110

  The World According to Garp

  by John Irving

  (11 Reviews)

  177 Points

  "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."

  

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  #158

  The Rainbow

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (2 Reviews)

  128 Points

  "The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire."

  

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  #58

  Crime and Punishment

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  (18 Reviews)

  298 Points

  "On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. (Garnett..."

  

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  #162

  Brighton Rock

  by Graham Greene

  (4 Reviews)

  125 Points

  "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours. [1956 ed.]"

  

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  #38

  Little Women

  by Louisa May Alcott

  (19 Reviews)

  348 Points

  "“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."

  

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  #81

  Gulliver's travels

  by Jonathan Swift

  (12 Reviews)

  225 Points

  "My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons."

  

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  #125

  Wide Sargasso Sea

  by Jean Rhys

  (6 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

  

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  #279

  Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

  by Roddy Doyle

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "We were coming down our road. Kevin stopped at a gate and bashed it with a stick. It was Missis Quigley's gate; she was always looking out the window but she never did anything."

  

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  #576

  The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  (1 Review)

  10 Points

  "September 11th, rue Toullier -So this is where people come to live; I would have though it is a city to die in. "

  

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