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Added by Nonfictionguy on 2 Jan 2009 07:51
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical cross-genre novel (originally published in German as Das Parfum) by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of scent, and its relationship with the emotional meaning that scents may carry. Above all this is a story of identity, communication and the morality of the human spirit.
People who added this item 6366 Average listal rating (4348 ratings) 8.7 IMDB Rating 9.2
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather is a crime novel written by American author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It details the story of a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family based in New York City (and Long Beach, NY) and headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia. The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the backstory of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.

The book introduced Italian criminal terms like consigliere, caporegime, Cosa Nostra, and omertà to an English-speaking audience.
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in Different Seasons.
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People who added this item 356 Average listal rating (179 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.1
Catch-22 is a satirical, historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961. The novel, set during the later stages of World War II from 1943 onwards, is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century.
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People who added this item 2932 Average listal rating (1879 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.9
Mystic River (2003)
Mystic River is a novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in 2001. In 2002 it won the Dilys Award.
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People who added this item 339 Average listal rating (225 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.8
The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the right-wing OAS French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. This novel was praised for its convincing portrayal of France in 1963, and its carefully thought-out plot. It received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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People who added this item 4675 Average listal rating (3163 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 8.1
Tom Congdon (Doubleday editor) offered Benchley an advance of $1,000 leading to the novelist submitting the first 100 pages of 'Jaws'. Jaws was published in 1974 and became a great success, staying on the bestseller list for some 44 weeks. Steven Spielberg has said that he initially found many of the characters in the Novel unsympathetic and that he wanted the shark to win.
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People who added this item 6526 Average listal rating (4535 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.4
The Shining (1977) is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. The title was inspired by the John Lennon song "Instant Karma!", which contained the line "We all shine on…". It was King's third published novel, and first hardcover bestseller, and the success of the book firmly established King as a preeminent author in the horror genre.
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People who added this item 4605 Average listal rating (3103 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.1
Blade Runner (1982)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It contains two interlinking plots: the main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids, while the secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who befriends some of the androids. The novel explores a number of philosophical issues including what it is to be human. By introducing organic and realistically humanoid androids in this novel, Dick asks what qualities, if any, are unique to or are able to define what is human.
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People who added this item 781 Average listal rating (520 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 7.1
Runaway Jury (2003)
The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham. The hardcover first edition was published by Doubleday Books in 1996.
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People who added this item 5473 Average listal rating (3768 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8.6
The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by Stephen King. It was later republished with all six volumes in a trade paperback and collected in hardcover in 2000. King published the story as a six-part serial. The story was crafted while the book was already in production. In keeping with the serial concept, the first edition consists of six thin, low-priced paperbacks. Since it first appeared, The Green Mile has been republished as a single volume. The first edition contains a section where the narrator speaks directly to the reader; the later edition contains an additional foreword. The novel was left otherwise untouched, though King did change one passage where a character in a straitjacket wipes his brow (a mistake that initially slipped past both him and his editor). The book won the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
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People who added this item 715 Average listal rating (426 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.1
The Grapes of Wrath novel was published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes.

Note: The endings of the book and the movie differ greatly.
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People who added this item 3712 Average listal rating (2444 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 8
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago in 1900, and has since been reprinted countless times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular film.
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People who added this item 1904 Average listal rating (1136 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.3
To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American fiction. The novel is loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with serious issues of rape and racial inequality.
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People who added this item 4687 Average listal rating (3122 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8.1
Trainspotting (1996)
Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is written in the form of short chapters narrated in the first person by various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction. The novel is set in the mid to late 1980s.
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People who added this item 9297 Average listal rating (6832 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.8
Fight Club (1999)
Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The book chronicles the experiences of an anonymous protagonist who is struggling with a growing discomfort with consumerism as a way of life, and with changes in the state of masculinity in American culture. To overcome this, he establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy.
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People who added this item 6250 Average listal rating (4245 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.3
A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess. It tells the dystopian story of a teenage boy Alex, his violent and unlawful lifestyle, the effort of the state to reform him and henceforth the consequences. The title is taken from an old Cockney expression, "as queer as a clockwork orange", and alludes to the prevention of the main character's exercise of his free will by the positively conditioned responses to evil feelings. Written from the perspective of a seemingly biased and unapologetic protagonist, the novel also contains an experiment in language: Burgess creates a new speech that is the teenage slang of the not-too-distant future.
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People who added this item 3601 Average listal rating (2261 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7.5
Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle) is a 1926 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. It details the thoughts and psychological transformations of Doctor Fridolin over a two day period. In this short time, he meets many people who give a clue to the world Schnitzler is creating for us. This culminates in the masquerade ball, a wondrous event of masked individualism, sex, and danger for Fridolin the outsider.
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People who added this item 4029 Average listal rating (2663 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 8
Q and A is the first novel by Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat. Q and A won South Africa's Boeke Prize 2006. The novel is narrated in the first person.
The book has sold translation rights in 36 languages, including French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Turkish, Icelandic, Chinese, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Serbian, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Indonesian, Thai, Japanese, Hebrew and Portuguese.

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People who added this item 4457 Average listal rating (2966 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 8.7
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. It is set in an Oregon asylum, and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. The novel was written in 1959 by Kesey, although it wasn't published until 1962. Although the novel was controversial when it was released due to the fact that it contained much sexual content, it later became known as a classic American novel.
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People who added this item 3035 Average listal rating (1846 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.8
Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is one of Jane Austen's novels, and is her second published novel. Its manuscript was initially written between 1796 and 1797 in Steventon, Hampshire, where Austen lived in the rectory. Called First Impressions, it was never published under that title, and following revisions it was retitled Pride and Prejudice.
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Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. Since the 1997 release of the first novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States, the books have gained immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide. By June 2008, the book series has sold more than 400 million copies and has been translated into 67 languages, setting records as the fastest-selling books in history.
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The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by philologist J.R.R Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but eventually developed into a much larger work. Although intended as a single-volume work, it was originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955, due to post-war paper shortages, and it is in this three-volume form that it is popularly known. It has since been reprinted numerous times and translated into many different languages,[2] becoming one of the most popular and influential works in 20th-century literature.
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People who added this item 2316 Average listal rating (1364 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7.4
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. This novel first introduced the character of Tom Ripley, who would return in the novels Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water, known collectively as the Ripliad.
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People who added this item 1388 Average listal rating (896 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 7.3
Matchstick Men: A Novel about Grifters with Issues is a 2002 novel written by Eric Garcia.

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