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  #113

  The House of Mirth

  by Edith Wharton

  (6 Reviews)

  172 Points

  "Selden paused in surprise."

  

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  #103

  Howards End

  by E. M. Forster

  (6 Reviews)

  182 Points

  "One may as well begin with Helens letters to her sister."

  

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  #116

  The Name of the Rose

  by Umberto Eco

  (12 Reviews)

  166 Points

  "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

  

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  #164

  The Adventures of Augie March

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  120 Points

  "I am an American, Chicago born–Chicago, that somber city–and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; and sometimes..."

  

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  #133

  The War of the Worlds

  by H. G. Wells

  (9 Reviews)

  143 Points

  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as..."

  

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  #134

  A Suitable Boy

  by Vikram Seth

  (2 Reviews)

  143 Points

  "'You too will marry a boy I choose' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter."

  

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  #141

  A Thousand Acres

  by Jane Smiley

  (5 Reviews)

  137 Points

  "At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."

  

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  #139

  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  by Junot Diaz

  (5 Reviews)

  139 Points

  "They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn..."

  

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  #138

  Waiting for Godot

  by Samuel Beckett

  (11 Reviews)

  139 Points

  "Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before. Enter Vladimir ESTRAGON: (giving up..."

  

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  #151

  If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

  by Italo Calvino

  (5 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.Stai per cominciare a leggere il nuovo romanzo Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore di Italo Calvino."

  

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