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  • Vicky Angel

    #549

    Vicky Angel

    by Jacqueline Wilson

    (3 Reviews)

    15 Points

  • Invisible Man

    #15

    Invisible Man

    by Ralph Ellison

    (16 Reviews)

    640 Points

    "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—...

  • The Lord of the Rings

    #11

    The Lord of the Rings

    by J. R. R. Tolkien

    (36 Reviews)

    691 Points

    "When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."

  • Jane Eyre

    #17

    Jane Eyre

    by Charlotte Brontë

    (35 Reviews)

    562 Points

    "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined..."

  • The Naked and the Dead

    #254

    The Naked and the Dead

    by Norman Mailer

    (1 Review)

    83 Points

    "Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assult craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on he beach at Anopopei. All over the ship, all through..."

  • Middlemarch

    #21

    Middlemarch

    by George Eliot

    (12 Reviews)

    519 Points

    "Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not..."

  • In Search of Lost Time

    #25

    In Search of Lost Time

    by Marcel Proust

    (7 Reviews)

    455 Points

    "For a long time, I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]"

  • Wuthering Heights

    #26

    Wuthering Heights

    by Emily Brontë

    (32 Reviews)

    417 Points

  • The Chronicles of Narnia

    #27

    The Chronicles of Narnia

    by C. S. Lewis

    (28 Reviews)

    403 Points

    "There is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. (From The Magician's Nephew, first in chronological order)Once there were four children whose names were..."

  • David Copperfield

    #55

    David Copperfield

    by Charles Dickens

    (14 Reviews)

    309 Points

    "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I..."