Literature That Got My Heart Pumping

A Listmania! list by Lance Richardson (Sydney, Australia)
 
Atonement
1.  Atonement by Ian McEwan
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  "The twist spears the book with tragic irony."
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Wuthering Heights (Pocket Penguin Classics)
2.  Wuthering Heights (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontė
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  "The most romantic novel I've ever read."
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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
3.  Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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  "Will he get away with it?"
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Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
4.  Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
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  "Dorothea Brooke is so real you'd swear this isn't fiction."
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The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
5.  The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins
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  "Chilling."
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The Cement Garden
6.  The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
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  "One of the most shocking novel's I've ever read."
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Ariel
7.  Ariel by Sylvia Plath
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  "I love Sylvia Plath."
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The Catcher in the Rye
8.  The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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  "I don't feel like going into it, if you really want to know . . ."
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
9.  1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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  "Obvious choice."
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The Day of the Triffids (Penguin Modern Classics)
10.  The Day of the Triffids (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Wyndham
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  "More thrilling than you'd expect."
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The Hours
11.  The Hours by Michael Cunningham
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  "Transcendally beautiful."
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The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories
12.  The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories by Angela Carter
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  "Fairy tales are NOT for children."
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The Sea, The Sea
13.  The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
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  "Strange book - Charles repulsed me, but I found it wonderfully insightful."
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