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  #264

  Old Goriot

  by Honoré de Balzac

  (4 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "Madame Vauquer (nee De Conflans) is an elderly person who for the past forty years has kept a lodging house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter..."

  

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  #209

  Rabbit, Run

  by John Updike

  (4 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. "

  

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  #174

  If This Is a Man and The Truce

  by Primo Levi

  (3 Reviews)

  115 Points

  

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  #195

  The Pilgrim's Progress

  by John Bunyan

  (6 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream.(Introduction to the..."

  

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  #410

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  by Hunter S. Thompson

  (9 Reviews)

  48 Points

  "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .' And suddenly..."

  

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  #622

  The Horse Whisperer

  by Nicholas Evans

  (4 Reviews)

  1 Points

  "There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end."

  

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  #240

  The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

  by Naguib Mahfouz

  (1 Review)

  87 Points

  

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  #266

  The Interrogation

  by J. M. G. Le Clezio

  (1 Review)

  79 Points

  

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  #248

  The Maltese Falcon

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (9 Reviews)

  85 Points

  "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth."

  

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  #448

  Haroun and the Sea of Stories

  by Salman Rushdie

  (4 Reviews)

  38 Points

  "There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name."

  

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