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  #155

  Henderson the Rain King

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated."

  

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  #143

  The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

  by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  (1 Review)

  136 Points

  "How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?"

  

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  #150

  Underworld

  by Don DeLillo

  (5 Reviews)

  132 Points

  "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.Parla la tua lingua, l'americano, e c'è una luce nel suo sguardo che è una mezza speranza."

  

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  #168

  Sophie's Choice

  by William Styron

  (1 Review)

  118 Points

  "In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn."

  

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  #170

  Buddenbrooks

  by Thomas Mann

  (3 Reviews)

  116 Points

  

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  #600

  The Beautiful and Damned

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (5 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him."

  

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  #238

  The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

  by Heinrich Böll

  (3 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "Für den folgenden Bericht gibt es einige Neben- und drei Hauptquellen, die hier am Anfang einmal genannt, dann aber nicht mehr erwähnt werden."

  

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  #176

  A Moveable Feast

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  113 Points

  "Then there was the bad weather."

  

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  #181

  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  (12 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet..."

  

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  #175

  The bridge of San Luis Rey

  by Thornton Wilder

  (5 Reviews)

  114 Points

  "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below."

  

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