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  #504

  Silent Spring

  by Rachel Carson

  (2 Reviews)

  24 Points

  "In a letter written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world made lifeless, and so brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had..."

  

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  #586

  The Colour of Magic

  by Terry Pratchett

  (5 Reviews)

  8 Points

  "In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part..."

  

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  #456

  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

  by Michel Foucault

  (1 Review)

  35 Points

  

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  #90

  All the King's Men

  by Robert Penn Warren

  (5 Reviews)

  207 Points

  "MASON CITY. To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it."

  

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  #466

  Guards! Guards!

  by Terry Pratchett

  (7 Reviews)

  32 Points

  "This is where the dragons went."

  

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  #157

  Persuasion

  by Jane Austen

  (15 Reviews)

  129 Points

  "Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation..."

  

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  #45

  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

  by Lewis Carroll

  (24 Reviews)

  327 Points

  "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or..."

  

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  #190

  Men Without Women

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (2 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "Manuel Garcia climbed the stairs to Don Miguel Retana's office. (THE UNDEFEATED)."

  

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  #472

  Look Homeward, Angel

  by Thomas Wolfe

  (1 Review)

  31 Points

  "A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the..."

  

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  His Dark Materials

  by Philip Pullman

  (14 Reviews)

  277 Points

  "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. (Northern lights)Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."..."

  

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