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The Secret of the Swordfish

The Secret of the Swordfish

Edgar P. Jacobs

3.0 (3)

#587
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332
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Money

Money

Martin Amis

3.0 (4)

As my cab pulled of FDR Drive, somewhere in the early Hundreds, a low-slung Tomohawk full of black guys came sharking out of lane and slopped in fast right across our bows.

#471
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730
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The Universal Baseball Association, inc.

The Universal Baseball Association, inc.

Robert Coover

3.0 (1)

Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry's heart was racing, he was sweating with relief and tension all at once, unable to sit, unable to think, <i>in</i> there, <i>with</i> them! Oh yes, boys, it was on! He was sure of it! More than just another ball game now: <i>history!</i>

#594
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311
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Creamy and Delicious

Creamy and Delicious

Steve Katz

4.0 (1)

#621
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240
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Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road

Erskine Caldwell

5.0 (1)

Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back.

#422
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1,025
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Rainer Maria Rilke

2.5 (1)

September 11th, rue Toullier -So this is where people come to live; I would have though it is a city to die in.

#575
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363
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The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

5.0 (1)

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

#426
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1,017
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The Blue Sword

The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley

5.0 (2)

She scowled at her glass of orange juice.

#510
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583
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An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.5 (2)

If on a sunny day you climb the steep path leading up from the little wooden bridge still referred to around here as ‘the Bridge of Hesitation’, you will not have to walk far before the roof of my house becomes visible between the tops of two gingko trees.

#478
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697
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This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.0 (5)

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

#291
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1,998
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