Via The High Definite, the Page 99 Test. Based on the Ford Madox Ford quote, "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you," this website provides the 99th pages of various published and unpublished authors.
Until today I had never heard of neither the 99th page rule nor Ford Madox Ford, who has an awesome name.
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- Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
- The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
- Sizzle by Julie Garwood
- Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
- Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Monster Squad: The Slime That Would Not Die by Laura Dower
- The Phantom of Five Chimneys by Betty Ren Wright
- Pixie Tricks: The Angry Elf by Tracey West
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- Beware the Fish by Gordon Korman
- The Time Hackers by Gary Paulsen
- The Shadowmaker by Ron Hansen
- That Yellow Bastard by Frank Miller
- The Big Fat Kill by Frank Miller
- A Dame to Kill For by Frank Miller
- The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
- The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
- Fables, Volumes 1-11 by Bill Willingham
- The Death and Life of Superman by Robert Stern
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
- Armageddon the Musical by Robert Rankin
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The City and the City by China Miéville
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- John Dies at the End by David Wong
- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver
- The Sandman, Volumes 1-3 by Neil Gaiman
- Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk
- Chosen to Die by Lisa Jackson
- Left to Die by Lisa Jackson
- Maybe a Couple of Shopaholic Books by Sophie Kinsella Don't Judge Me
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
- Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
- Secret Daughter by Silpi Somaya Gowda
- On The Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
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