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    <title>Moving Boxes by Air: The Economics of International Air Cargo

    • Author Peter S. Morrell

    • Edition

    • Publisher

    • Routledge, 2016

    • ISBN

    • 131709381X, 9781317093817

    • Length 352 pages

    • Aircraft Safety : Accident Investigations, Analyses, Applications, Second Edition - Krause

    • The Great Gatsby

    • by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • Crew Resource Management - Kanki (Second Edition)994 Points

    • Ethical Issues in Aviation - Elizabeth A Hoppe

    • Exploring Management - Schermerhorn (4th Edition)

    • The Grapes of Wrath

    • by John Steinbeck

    • Fundamentals of Human Resource Management - Noe

    • Introduction to Air Transport Economics: Vasigh (Second Edition)

    • "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

    • Introduction to Aviation Insurance and Risk Management: Wells (Third Edition)

    • Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems - Barnhart

    • Nineteen Eighty-Four

    • by George Orwell

    • Principles of Managerial Finance (13th Edition)

    • Principles of Marketing - Kotler (Fifteenth Edition)

    • "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #4

    • Ulysses

    • by James Joyce

    •  (10 Reviews)

    • 925 Points

    • "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #5

    • Lolita

    • by Vladimir Nabokov

    •  (32 Reviews)

    • 856 Points

    • "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #6

    • Catch-22

    • by Joseph Heller

    •  (27 Reviews)

    • 823 Points

    • "It was love at first sight."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #7

    • The Catcher in the Rye

    • by J. D. Salinger

    •  (39 Reviews)

    • 735 Points

    • "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #8

    • Beloved

    • by Toni Morrison

    •  (11 Reviews)

    • 719 Points

    • "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #9

    • The Sound and the Fury

    • by William Faulkner

    •  (14 Reviews)

    • 703 Points

    • "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #10

    • To Kill a Mockingbird

    • by Harper Lee

    •  (57 Reviews)

    • 701 Points

    • "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #11

    • The Lord of the Rings

    • by J. R. R. Tolkien

    •  (32 Reviews)

    • 691 Points

    • "When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #12

    • One Hundred Years of Solitude

    • by Gabriel García Márquez

    •  (19 Reviews)

    • 667 Points

    • "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #13

    • Brave New World

    • by Aldous Huxley

    •  (21 Reviews)

    • 664 Points

    • "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #14

    • To the Lighthouse

    • by Virginia Woolf

    •  (11 Reviews)

    • 642 Points

    • "Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #15

    • Invisible Man

    • by Ralph Ellison

    •  (11 Reviews)

    • 640 Points

    • "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—...

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #16

    • Gone with the Wind

    • by Margaret Mitchell

    •  (17 Reviews)

    • 606 Points

    • "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm, as the Tarleton twins were."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #17

    • Jane Eyre

    • by Charlotte Brontë

    •  (30 Reviews)

    • 562 Points

    • "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #18

    • On the Road

    • by Jack Kerouac

    •  (10 Reviews)

    • 543 Points

    • "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #19

    • Pride and Prejudice

    • by Jane Austen

    •  (27 Reviews)

    • 540 Points

    • "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #20

    • Lord of the Flies

    • by William Golding

    •  (35 Reviews)

    • 537 Points

    • "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."

    • #151

    • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

    • by Italo Calvino

    •  (3 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."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #152

    • Life

    • by Georges Perec

    •  (1 Review)

    • 130 Points

    • " PreambleTo begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance....PART ONE, CHAPTER ONEYes, it could begin this way, right here, just like that, in a rather slow and ponderous way, in..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #153

    • The Master and Margarita

    • by Mikhail Bulgakov

    •  (9 Reviews)

    • 130 Points

    • "One hot spring evening, just as the sun was going down, two men appeared at Patriarch’s Ponds.At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch’s Ponds.Однажды весною,..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #154

    • The Good Earth

    • by Pearl S. Buck

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 130 Points

    • "It was Wang Lung's marriage day."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #155

    • Henderson the Rain King

    • by Saul Bellow

    •  (0 Reviews)

    • 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."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #156

    • Ironweed

    • by William J. Kennedy

    •  (0 Reviews)

    • 130 Points

    • "Riding up the winding road of Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of the rattling old truck, Francis Phelan became aware that the dead, even more than the living, settled down in neighborhoods."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #157

    • Persuasion

    • by Jane Austen

    •  (11 Reviews)

    • 129 Points

    • "Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #158

    • The Rainbow

    • by D. H. Lawrence

    •  (1 Review)

    • 128 Points

    • "The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #159

    • A Dance to the Music of Time

    • by Anthony Powell

    •  (0 Reviews)

    • 127 Points

    • "The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of a camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • Middlemarch

    • by George Eliot

    •  (7 Reviews)

    • 519 Points

    • "Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #22

    • Anna Karenina

    • by Leo Tolstoy

    •  (19 Reviews)

    • 505 Points

    • "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (C. Garnett, 1946) and (J. Carmichael, 1960)All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #23

    • Animal Farm

    • by George Orwell

    •  (39 Reviews)

    • 495 Points

    • "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #24

    • A Passage to India

    • by E. M. Forster

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 469 Points

    • "Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #25

    • In Search of Lost Time

    • by Marcel Proust

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 455 Points

    • "For a long time, I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]"

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #26

    • Wuthering Heights

    • by Emily Brontë

    •  (26 Reviews)

    • 417 Points

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #27

    • The Chronicles of Narnia

    • by C. S. Lewis

    •  (25 Reviews)

    • 403 Points

    • "There is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. (From The Magician's Nephew, first in chronological order)Once there were four children whose names were..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #28

    • The Color Purple

    • by Alice Walker

    •  (9 Reviews)

    • 392 Points

    • "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #29

    • Midnight's Children

    • by Salman Rushdie

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 391 Points

    • "I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #30

    • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    • by James Joyce

    •  (6 Reviews)

    • 389 Points

    • "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #31

    • Winnie-the-Pooh

    • by A. A. Milne

    •  (17 Reviews)

    • 383 Points

    • "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #32

    • Heart of Darkness

    • by Joseph Conrad

    •  (13 Reviews)

    • 382 Points

    • "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #33

    • Mrs Dalloway

    • by Virginia Woolf

    •  (7 Reviews)

    • 365 Points

    • "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #34

    • Slaughterhouse-Five

    • by Kurt Vonnegut

    •  (23 Reviews)

    • 358 Points

    • "All this happened, more or less."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #35

    • War and Peace

    • by Leo Tolstoy

    •  (10 Reviews)

    • 357 Points

    • "Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family."Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. (Maude/Maude)

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #36

    • Of Mice and Men

    • by John Steinbeck

    •  (32 Reviews)

    • 349 Points

    • "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #37

    • Moby-Dick

    • by Herman Melville

    •  (12 Reviews)

    • 348 Points

    • "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #38

    • Little Women

    • by Louisa May Alcott

    •  (15 Reviews)

    • 348 Points

    • "“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #39

    • Native Son

    • by Richard Wright

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 348 Points

    • "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #40

    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    • by Douglas Adams

    •  (26 Reviews)

    • 344 Points

    • "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #41

    • Great Expectations

    • by Charles Dickens

    •  (17 Reviews)

    • 337 Points

    • "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #42

    • The Sun Also Rises

    • by Ernest Hemingway

    •  (21 Reviews)

    • 335 Points

    • "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #43

    • Rebecca

    • by Daphne du Maurier

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 333 Points

    • "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #44

    • The Stranger

    • by Albert Camus

    •  (12 Reviews)

    • 331 Points

    • "Mother died today. (Stuart Gilbert translation)Maman died today. (Matthew Ward translation)Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #45

    • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

    • by Lewis Carroll

    •  (19 Reviews)

    • 327 Points

    • "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #46

    • For Whom the Bell Tolls

    • by Ernest Hemingway

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 322 Points

    • "He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #47

    • The Hobbit

    • by J. R. R. Tolkien

    •  (27 Reviews)

    • 322 Points

    • "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #48

    • Madame Bovary

    • by Gustave Flaubert

    •  (10 Reviews)

    • 322 Points

    • "Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #49

    • The Wind in the Willows

    • by Kenneth Grahame

    •  (14 Reviews)

    • 318 Points

    • "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. "

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #50

    • The Handmaid’s Tale

    • by Margaret Atwood

    •  (11 Reviews)

    • 316 Points

    • "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."

    • Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    • by Thomas Hardy

    •  (12 Reviews)

    • 315 Points

    • "On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #52

    • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    • by Zora Neale Hurston

    •  (7 Reviews)

    • 312 Points

    • "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #53

    • A Prayer for Owen Meany

    • by John Irving

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 311 Points

    • "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #54

    • Emma

    • by Jane Austen

    •  (14 Reviews)

    • 310 Points

    • "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #55

    • David Copperfield

    • by Charles Dickens

    •  (9 Reviews)

    • 309 Points

    • "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #56

    • The Portrait of a Lady

    • by Henry James

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 306 Points

    • "Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #57

    • The Trial

    • by Franz Kafka

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 304 Points

    • "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.Jemand mußte Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne daß er etwas Böses..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #58

    • Crime and Punishment

    • by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    •  (14 Reviews)

    • 298 Points

    • "On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. (Garnett..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #59

    • A Clockwork Orange

    • by Anthony Burgess

    •  (13 Reviews)

    • 295 Points

    • "'What's it going to be then, eh?'"

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #60

    • The Age of Innocence

    • by Edith Wharton

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 292 Points

    • "On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #61

    • Don Quixote

    • by Miguel de Cervantes

    •  (7 Reviews)

    • 291 Points

    • "Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable.Prologue: Idle..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #62

    • As I Lay Dying

    • by William Faulkner

    •  (11 Reviews)

    • 281 Points

    • "Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #63

    • His Dark Materials

    • by Philip Pullman

    •  (11 Reviews)

    • 277 Points

    • "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. (Northern lights)Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #64

    • Brideshead Revisited

    • by Evelyn Waugh

    •  (6 Reviews)

    • 269 Points

    • "When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #65

    • The Golden Notebook

    • by Doris Lessing

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 266 Points

    • "The two women were alone in the London flat."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #66

    • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    • by Mark Twain

    •  (23 Reviews)

    • 263 Points

    • "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #67

    • Things Fall Apart

    • by Chinua Achebe

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 255 Points

    • "Okonkwo was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #68

    • Tom Jones

    • by Henry Fielding

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 255 Points

    • "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #69

    • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    • by J. K. Rowling

    •  (39 Reviews)

    • 252 Points

    • "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #70

    • Song of Solomon

    • by Toni Morrison

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 250 Points

    • "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #71

    • Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

    • by Samuel Beckett

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 247 Points

    • "I am in my mother's room."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #72

    • Finnegans Wake

    • by James Joyce

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 247 Points

    • "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #73

    • Absalom, Absalom!

    • by William Faulkner

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 246 Points

    • "From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #74

    • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    • by Laurence Sterne

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 244 Points

    • "I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much...

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #75

    • Charlotte's Web

    • by E. B. White

    •  (23 Reviews)

    • 236 Points

    • "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #76

    • The Ambassadors

    • by Henry James

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 235 Points

    • "Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #77

    • Sons and Lovers

    • by D. H. Lawrence

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 232 Points

    • "The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #78

    • A Farewell to Arms

    • by Ernest Hemingway

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 230 Points

    • "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #79

    • Women in Love

    • by D. H. Lawrence

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 226 Points

    • "Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #80

    • Birdsong

    • by Sebastian Faulks

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 226 Points

    • "The boulevard du cange was a broad, quiet street that marked the eastern flank of the city of 

    • Gulliver's travels

    • by Jonathan Swift

    •  (9 Reviews)

    • 225 Points

    • "My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #82

    • Watership Down

    • by Richard Adams

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 225 Points

    • "The primroses were over."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #83

    • Gravity's Rainbow

    • by Thomas Pynchon

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 221 Points

    • "A screaming comes across the sky."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #84

    • Frankenstein

    • by Mary Shelley

    •  (24 Reviews)

    • 219 Points

    • "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #85

    • Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

    • by Samuel Richardson

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 215 Points

    • "I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #86

    • The Old Man and the Sea

    • by Ernest Hemingway

    •  (21 Reviews)

    • 215 Points

    • "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #87

    • Dune

    • by Frank Herbert

    •  (13 Reviews)

    • 214 Points

    • "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. . . . from "Manual of Muad'dib" by the Princess IrulanIn the week before their departure to Arakis, when all..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #88

    • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    • by Daniel Defoe

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 211 Points

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #89

    • Go Tell It on the Mountain

    • by James Baldwin

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 208 Points

    • "Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #90

    • All the King's Men

    • by Robert Penn Warren

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 207 Points

    • "MASON CITY. To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #91

    • The Magic Mountain

    • by Thomas Mann

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 203 Points

    • "Die Geschichte Hans Castorps, die wir erzählen wollen, - nicht um seinetwillen (denn der Leser wird einen einfachen, wenn auch ansprechenden jungen Mann in ihm kennenlernen), sondern um der..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #92

    • The Call of the Wild

    • by Jack London

    •  (15 Reviews)

    • 203 Points

    • "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #93

    • The Tin Drum

    • by Günter Grass

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 201 Points

    • "Granted: I'm an inmate of a mental institution; my keeper watches me, scarcely lets me out of his sight; for there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can't see..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #94

    • The 42nd Parallel

    • by John Dos Passos

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 200 Points

    • "General Mills with his gaudy uniform and spirited charger was the center for all eyes especially as his steed was extremely restless."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #95

    • Under the Volcano

    • by Malcolm Lowry

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 199 Points

    • "Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #96

    • Disgrace

    • by J. M. Coetzee

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 193 Points

    • "For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #97

    • The Diary of a Young Girl

    • by Anne Frank

    •  (16 Reviews)

    • 193 Points

    • "On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o' clock and no wonder; it was my birthday"

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #98

    • Bleak House

    • by Charles Dickens

    •  (6 Reviews)

    • 189 Points

    • "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #99

    • Light in August

    • by William Faulkner

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 188 Points

    • "Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.'"

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #100

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    •  (15 Reviews)

    • 187 Points

    • "A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #101

    • Pale Fire

    • by Vladimir Nabokov

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 185 Points

    • "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane.Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #102

    • Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    • by Louis de Bernières

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 183 Points

    • "Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #103

    • Howards End

    • by E. M. Forster

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 182 Points

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

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #104

    • The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

    • by Carson McCullers

    •  (6 Reviews)

    • 181 Points

    • "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #105

    • Vanity Fair

    • by William Makepeace Thackeray

    •  (7 Reviews)

    • 181 Points

    • "While the present century was in its teens, and on one sun-shiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #106

    • Commedia

    • by Dante Alighieri

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 180 Points

    • "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita/mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,/chè la diritta via era smarrita.Mildway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #107

    • The Count of Monte Cristo

    • by Alexandre Dumas

    •  (13 Reviews)

    • 180 Points

    • "On February 24, 1815, the watchtower at Marseilles signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #108

    • An American Tragedy

    • by Theodore Dreiser

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 179 Points

    • "Dusk - of a summer night."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #109

    • White Noise

    • by Don DeLillo

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 178 Points

    • "The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #110

    • The World According to Garp

    • by John Irving

    •  (9 Reviews)

    • 177 Points

    • "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #111

    • Atonement

    • by Ian McEwan

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 176 Points

    • "The play – for which Briony had designed posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper – was..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #112

    • Nostromo

    • by Joseph Conrad

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 173 Points

    • "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #113

    • The House of Mirth

    • by Edith Wharton

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 172 Points

    • "Selden paused in surprise."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #114

    • The Brothers Karamazov

    • by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 168 Points

    • "Alexey Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his tragic and obscure..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #115

    • The Good Soldier

    • by Ford Madox Ford

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 168 Points

    • "This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #116

    • The Name of the Rose

    • by Umberto Eco

    •  (10 Reviews)

    • 166 Points

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

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #117

    • The Shipping News

    • by Annie Proulx

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 164 Points

    • "Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #118

    • The Woman in White

    • by Wilkie Collins

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 164 Points

    • "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #119

    • Herzog

    • by Saul Bellow

    •  (1 Review)

    • 162 Points

    • "If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #120

    • The Counterfeiters

    • by Andre Gide

    •  (2 Reviews)

    • 162 Points

    • "The time has now come for me to hear a step in the passage," said Bernard to himself.

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #121

    • My Ántonia

    • by Willa Cather

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 159 Points

    • "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year,..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #122

    • Scoop

    • by Evelyn Waugh

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 156 Points

    • "While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters'."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #123

    • A Room with a View

    • by E. M. Forster

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 156 Points

    • "The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a...

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #124

    • Bible: King James Version

    • by KJV

    •  (11 Reviews)

    • 155 Points

    • "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.Bibliographical introduction....

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #125

    • Wide Sargasso Sea

    • by Jean Rhys

    •  (3 Reviews)

    • 153 Points

    • "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #126

    • Love in The Time of Cholera

    • by Gabriel García Márquez

    •  (5 Reviews)

    • 153 Points

    • "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #127

    • The Remains of the day

    • by Kazuo Ishiguro

    •  (6 Reviews)

    • 153 Points

    • "It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #128

    • The Big Sleep

    • by Raymond Chandler

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 152 Points

    • "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #129

    • I, Claudius

    • by Robert Graves

    •  (4 Reviews)

    • 151 Points

    • "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives..."

    • I've Read ItI Want To Read It

    • #130

    • Tropic of Cancer

    • by Henry Miller

    •  (8 Reviews)

    • 151 Points

    • "I am living at the Villa

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