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Tlooth

Tlooth

Harry Mathews

2.0 (1)

Mannish Madame Nevtaya slowly cried "Fur bowls!" and the Fideist batter, alert to the sense behind the sound of her words, jogged toward first base.

#618
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253
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The Godfather

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

5.0 (7)

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.

#170
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4,401
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Richard Fariña

4.0 (1)

To Athené then.

#517
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535
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Pricksongs & descants

Pricksongs & descants

Robert Coover

3.0 (1)

#600
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298
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Waiting for the Mahatma

Waiting for the Mahatma

R. K. Narayan

3.0 (2)

His mother who died delivering him, and his father who was killed in Mesopotamia, might have been figures in a legend as far as Sriram was concerned.

#577
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353
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The Journal of Jules Renard

The Journal of Jules Renard

Jules Renard

5.0 (1)

#615
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269
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Notes from a small island

Notes from a small island

Bill Bryson

3.83 (5)

My first sight of England was on a foggy March night in 1973 when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais.

#308
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1,854
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Centennial

Centennial

James A. Michener

4.67 (3)

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 our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door.

#336
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1,675
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the man in the high castle

the man in the high castle

Philip K. Dick

3.67 (3)

For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail.

#397
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1,209
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The Last Chronicle of Barset

The Last Chronicle of Barset

Anthony Trollope

4.25 (4)

'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge.

#538
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472
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