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  #214

  Darkness at Noon

  by Arthur Koestler

  (3 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "The cell door slammed behind Rubashov."

  

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  #128

  The Big Sleep

  by Raymond Chandler

  (7 Reviews)

  152 Points

  "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."

  

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  #468

  A Room of One's Own

  by Virginia Woolf

  (6 Reviews)

  32 Points

  "But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction -- what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain."

  

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  #136

  A Confederacy of Dunces

  by John Kennedy Toole

  (4 Reviews)

  142 Points

  "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on..."

  

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  #474

  Skinny Legs and All

  by Tom Robbins

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper. The toadstool motel you once thought a mere folk tale, a corny, obsolete, rural invention."

  

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  #92

  The Call of the Wild

  by Jack London

  (20 Reviews)

  203 Points

  "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound..."

  

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  #530

  I Capture the Castle

  by Dodie Smith

  (3 Reviews)

  19 Points

  "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."

  

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  #52

  Their Eyes Were Watching God

  by Zora Neale Hurston

  (10 Reviews)

  312 Points

  "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

  

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  #591

  The Alchemist

  by Paulo Coelho

  (17 Reviews)

  7 Points

  "The boy's name was Santiago."

  

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  #30

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  by James Joyce

  (9 Reviews)

  389 Points

  "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."

  

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