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Even from that first line, you know it's going to be an incredible book...
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
1984-George Orwell
Miss Lonleyhearts-Nathanael West
David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
The Stranger-Albert Camus
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"I am an invisible man."
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
City of Glass-Paul Auster
The Sound and the Fury-WIlliam Faulkner
Fahrenheit 151-Ray Bradbury
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"124 was spiteful."
My Antonia-Willa Cather
The Color Purple-Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God-Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved-Toni Morrison
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"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stair head, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay across."
The End of the Affair-Graham Greene
Ulysses-James Joyce
The Sun Also Rises-Ernest Hemingway
The Wings of the Dove-Henry James
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"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were percectly normal, thank you very much."
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe-CS Lewis
A Room with a View-EM Forster
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone-JK Rowling
Possession-AS Byatt
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Progress: 6 of 10 questions
"It was love at first sight."
The Call of the Wild-Jack London
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Lord of the Flies-William Golding
Portnoy's COmplaint-Philip Roth
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Progress: 7 of 10 questions
"On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters Peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl."
The Namesake-Jhumpa Lahiri
Waiting-Ha Jin
The God of Small Things-Arundhati Roy
The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
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Progress: 8 of 10 questions
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
Sophie's Choice-William Styron
THe Great Gatsby-F Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
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"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer the electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand
The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton
Brideshead Revisited-Evelyn Waugh
The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
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"It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that had been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."
The Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane
The Remains of the Day-Kazuo Ishiguro
Gravity's Rainbow-Thomas Pynchon
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