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  #18

  On the Road

  by Jack Kerouac

  (15 Reviews)

  543 Points

  "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."

  

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  #180

  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  by Muriel Spark

  (5 Reviews)

  109 Points

  "The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes,..."

  

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  #109

  White Noise

  by Don DeLillo

  (4 Reviews)

  178 Points

  "The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus."

  

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  #67

  Things Fall Apart

  by Chinua Achebe

  (12 Reviews)

  255 Points

  "Okonkwo was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing..."

  

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  #142

  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

  by Michael Chabon

  (6 Reviews)

  137 Points

  "In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back..."

  

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  #122

  Scoop

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (5 Reviews)

  156 Points

  "While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters'."

  

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  #394

  Good Night, Mr. Tom

  by Michelle Magorian

  (1 Review)

  52 Points

  "Yes," said Tom bluntly, on opening the door. "What d'you want?"

  

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  #193

  Life of Pi

  by Yann Martel

  (17 Reviews)

  100 Points

  "My suffering left me sad and gloomy."

  

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  #406

  The Bean Trees

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  (4 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbines's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign."

  

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  #417

  City of Glass

  by Paul Auster

  (1 Review)

  46 Points

  "It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not."

  

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