Listopia > Miss Manners's votes on the list Best Books of the 20th Century (14 Books)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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"beautiful book."
Miss
rated it 5 stars
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The Little Prince
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"super beautiful book."
Miss
rated it 5 stars
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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"really captures a time and an era where maintaining a certain type of integrity was the priority."
Miss
rated it 4 stars
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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"amazing story, magical and inspiring, love and hope and so many levels of life."
Miss
rated it 5 stars
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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"incapsualtes New orleans for me through the life of such a freshly unusual protagonist, really makes me think about life and fate and coincidence."
Miss
rated it 5 stars
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The Poisonwood Bible
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"paints a picture of a world in which I have never experienced and a kind of devotion that is rare."
Miss
rated it 4 stars
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The Stranger
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"Anaylzes the complex arguments of right, wrong vs. existence in it's pure form in a fresh and colorful simplicity."
Miss
rated it 5 stars
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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"quintessential book on the notions of insanity and saneness, and the way freedom is determined and experienced."
Miss
rated it 5 stars
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Animal Farm
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"Wonderful, playful look at systems of power and corruption."
Miss
rated it 4 stars
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In Cold Blood
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"Humanizes two people who have committed an act of inhuman violence and senselessness, and shows the relationship between ones past and human emotion and need as it connects to spontaneous actions of life altering proportions. "
Miss
rated it 5 stars
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The Master and Margarita
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"Fantastical, amazing, delightful- a spellbinding journey through the concepts of good, evil, god, satan, corruption, altruism, love, deceit, selfishness, selflessness and everything else in between. A book that needs to be read over and over again."
Miss
rated it 5 stars
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The Old Man and the Sea
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"A visually stimulating journey of inner strength, solitude, and the power of personal fortitude against the odds."
Miss
rated it 3 stars
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The Bell Jar
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"So eloquently chronicles the decent into depression, and mental illness and the subsequent alienation and struggle of trying to find meaning in the boundariless state of being morbidly mentally ill."
Miss
rated it 5 stars
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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