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| 1984 | | "He Loved Big Brother." |
George Orwell
| The Age of Innocence | | "Newland Archer Got up Slowly and Walked Back Alone to His Hotel." |
Edith Wharton
| Alone in Berlin | | "Because It is Written That You Reap What You Sow, and the Boy Had Sown Good Corn." |
Hans Fallada
| Anne of Green Gables | | "'God's in His Heaven, All's Right With the World,' Whispered Anne Softly." |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
| Atonement | | "But Now I Must Sleep." |
Ian McEwan
| The Awakening | | "There Was the Hum of Bees, and the Musky Odor of Pinks Filled the Air." |
Kate Chopin
| Before I Die | | "Light Falls Through the Window, Falls Onto Me, Into Me. Moments. All Gathering Towards This One." |
Jenny Downham, British novelist
| The Bell Jar | | "The Eyes and Faces All Turned Themselves Towards Me, and Guiding Myself by Them, As by a Magical Thread, I Stepped Into the Room." |
Sylvia Plath
| Catch-22 | | "The Knife Came Down, Missing Him by Inches, and He Took Off." |
Joseph Heller
| The Catcher in the Rye | | "It's Funny. Don't Ever Tell Anybody Anything. If You Do, You Start Missing Everybody." |
J. D. Salinger
| Charlotte's Web | | "It is Not Often That Someone Comes Along Who is a True Friend and a Good Writer. Charlotte Was Both." |
E. B. White
| A Clockwork Orange | | "But You, O My Brothers, Remember Sometimes Thy Little Alex That Was. Amen. And All That Cal." |
Anthony Burgess
| The Color Purple | | "But I Don't Think Us Feel Old at All. And Us So Happy. Matter of Fact, I Think This the Youngest Us Ever Felt." |
Alice Walker
| Dracula | | "Later on He Will Understand How Some Men So Loved Her, That They Did Dare Much for Her Sake." |
Bram Stoker
| Finnegans Wake | | "A Way a Lone a Last a Loved a Long The" |
James Joyce
| Frankenstein | | "He Was Soon Borne Away by the Waves and Lost in Darkness and Distance." |
Mary Shelley
| Gone With the Wind | | "After All, Tomorrow is Another Day." |
Margaret Mitchell
| The Good Earth | | "But over the Old Man's Head They Looked at Each Other and Smiled." |
Pearl S. Buck
| The Grapes of Wrath | | "She Looked up and Across the Barn, and Her Lips Came Together and Smiled Mysteriously." |
John Steinbeck
| The Great Gatsby | | "So We Beat On, Boats Against the Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past." |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
| Half of a Yellow Sun | | "She Had Started to Cry Softly. Odenigbo Took Her in His Arms." |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian writer
| The Handmaid's Tale | | "Are There Any Questions?" |
Margaret Atwood
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | | "Might I Trouble You Men to Be Ready in Half an Hour, and We Can Stop at Marcini's for a Little Dinner on the Way?" |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
| The House of the Spirits | | "It Begins Like This: Barrabás Came to Us by Sea…" |
Isabel Allende
| The Kite Runner | | "I Ran With the Wind Blowing in My Face, and a Smile As Wide As the Valley of Panjsher on My Lips. I Ran." |
Khaled Hosseini
| Life of Pi | | "Very Few Castaways Can Claim to Have Survived So Long at Sea As Mr. Patel, and None in the Company of an Adult Bengal Tiger." |
Yann Martel
| Little Women | | "Oh, My Girls, However Long You May Live, I Never Can Wish You a Greater Happiness Than This." |
Louisa May Alcott
| The Long Goodbye | | "I Never Saw Any of Them Again, Except the Cops. No Way Has Yet Been Invented to Say Goodbye to Them." |
Raymond Chandler
| Lord of the Flies | | "He Turned Away to Give Them Time to Pull Themselves Together; and Waited, Allowing His Eyes to Rest on the Trim Cruiser in the Distance." |
William Golding
| Love in the Time of Cholera | | "Florentino Ariza Had Kept His Answer Ready for Fifty-three Years, Seven Months, and Eleven Days and Nights. "Forever," He Said." |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
| The Lovely Bones | | "I Wish You All a Long and Happy Life." |
Alice Sebold
| Madame Bovary | | "He Has Just Been Awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor." |
Gustave Flaubert, translated by Margaret Mauldon
| Mickelsson's Ghosts | | "… Pitiful, Empty-headed Nothings Complaining to Be Born…." |
John Gardner
| Middlesex | | "I Lost Track After a While, Happy to Be Home, Weeping for My Father, and Thinking About What Was Next." |
Jeffrey Eugenides
| Moby Dick | | "It Was the Devious-cruising Rachel, That in Her Retracing Search After Her Missing Children, Only Found Another Orphan." |
Herman Melville
| A Moveable Feast | | "But This is How Paris Was in the Early Days when We Were Very Poor and Very Happy." |
Ernest Hemingway
| Ninety-Two in the Shade | | "His Jaws Were Parted Slightly to the Rush of Air. He Was Heading for A1A." |
Thomas McGuane
| Norwegian Wood | | "Again and Again I Called out for Midori from the Dead Centre of This Place That Was No Place." |
Haruki Murakami
| Of Mice and Men | | "And Carlson Said, 'Now What the Hell Ya Suppose is Eatin' Them Two Guys?'" |
John Steinbeck
| The Old Man and the Sea | | "The Old Man Was Dreaming About the Lions." |
Ernest Hemingway
| The Pianist | | "Twilight Came On. Snow Fell from the Darkening, Leaden Sky." |
Wladyslaw Szpilman
| The Poisonwood Bible | | "That is the Only Marker You Need. Move On. Walk Forward Into the Light." |
Barbara Kingsolver
| A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man | | "Old Father, Old Artificer, Stand Me Now and Ever in Good Stead." |
James Joyce
| Rebecca | | "And the Ashes Blew Towards Us With the Salt Wind from the Sea." |
Daphne du Maurier
| Slaughterhouse-Five | | "One Bird Said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet?'" |
Kurt Vonnegut
| Suite Francaise | | "Soon the Road Was Empty. All That Remained of the German Regiment Was a Little Cloud of Dust." |
Irene Nemirovsky
| A Tale of Two Cities | | "It is a Far, Far Better Thing That I Do, Than I Have Ever Done; It is a Far, Far Better Rest That I Go to Than I Have Ever Known." |
Charles Dickens
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | | "But the Naming Game Involves Only Male Names, Because if It's a Girl, Laila Has Already Named Her." |
Khaled Hosseini
| The Time Traveler's Wife | | "He is Coming, and I Am Here." |
Audrey Niffenegger
| To Kill a Mockingbird | | "He Would Be There All Night, and He Would Be There when Jem Waked up in the Morning." |
Harper Lee
| Tropic of Cancer | | "The Hills Gently Girdle It About: Its Course is Fixed." |
Henry Miller
| Ulysses | | "…I Put My Arms Around Him Yes and Drew Him Down to Me So He Could Feel My Breasts All Perfume Yes and His Heart Was Going Like Mad and Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes." |
James Joyce
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | | "The Strains of the Piano and Violin Rose up Weakly from Below." |
Milan Kundera
| Wild Swans | | "I Took One More Glance over My Past Life, then Turned to the Future. I Was Eager to Embrace the World." |
Jung Chang, winner 1993 British Book of the Year
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