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  #51

  Tess of the D'Urbervilles

  by Thomas Hardy

  (13 Reviews)

  315 Points

  "On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor."

  

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  #535

  Holes

  by Louis Sachar

  (9 Reviews)

  18 Points

  "There is no lake at Camp Green Lake."

  

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  #558

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  by Mitch Albom

  (7 Reviews)

  13 Points

  "This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."

  

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  #269

  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

  by Patrick Suskind

  (11 Reviews)

  78 Points

  "In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."

  

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  #192

  Cannery Row

  by John Steinbeck

  (7 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."

  

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  #256

  Hunger

  by Knut Hamsun

  (3 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set his mark upon him. . .Det var i den tid jeg gikk omkring og sultet i..."

  

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  #273

  The Wasp Factory

  by Iain Banks

  (7 Reviews)

  77 Points

  "I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped."

  

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  #564

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  (12 Reviews)

  12 Points

  "To Sherlock Holmes she is always ithe/i woman."

  

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  #1

  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (97 Reviews)

  994 Points

  "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

  

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  #440

  A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (1 Review)

  40 Points

  "The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. "

  

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