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Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
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  "Superb evocation of place, great narrative, powerful metaphor."
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The Body Artist
2.  The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
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  "Less hubris than usual for Delillo. Quiet, haunting: lingers long ..."
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Brave New World (Flamingo Modern Classics)
3.  Brave New World (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Aldous Huxley
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  "Not the most stylish thing ever written! But no less important for that."
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The Yellow Rain
4.  The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares
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  "Beautiful melancholy. A real and rare find this one."
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The Iron Heel ("Rebel Inc." Classics)
5.  The Iron Heel ("Rebel Inc." Classics) by Jack London
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  "Overtly (and overly) polemical but certainly worth the effort."
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Embers
6.  Embers by Sandor Marai
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  "Janeway also translated Schlink's excellent The Reader. Great stuff this."
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The Book of Disquiet (Five Star Paperback)
7.  The Book of Disquiet (Five Star Paperback) by Fernando Pessoa
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  "One of the best 100 books in the world? Could very well be ..."
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Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann African Writers Series)
8.  Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann African Writers Series) by Tayeb Salih
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  "A classic of world literature - do it."
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Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics)
9.  Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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  "How come I hadn't read this yet!? Superb, just like everyone says."
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A Brief Stay with the Living
10.  A Brief Stay with the Living by Marie Darrieussecq
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  "And read 'Breathing Underwater' and 'My Phantom Husband' too!"
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Blindness
11.  Blindness by Jose Saramago
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  "Superb. matchless treat from 1998's Nobel winner - 'The Gospel According to Jesus Christ' is amazing too."
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In the Cage (Hesperus Classics)
12.  In the Cage (Hesperus Classics) by Henry James
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  "The convoluted but brilliant James in a handy, if slight, bitesize yarn ..."
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Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us from Seeing
13.  Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us from Seeing by Darian Leader
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  "Lacanian pop psychoanalysis at its absolute best."
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State of Siege
14.  State of Siege by Juan Goytisolo
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  "Tough, uncompromising, dense, brilliant."
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin)
15.  One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  "Majestically effortless yet epic. Corking!"
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The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
16.  The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "Disturbing and brilliant as you would hope and expect."
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Mrs Sartoris
17.  Mrs Sartoris by Elke Schmitter
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  "Good - not great, but certainly worth the entrance fee."
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
18.  Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
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  "Yet another classic that needed doing! Utterly fabulous."
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Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics)
19.  Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
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  "One of Dickens' best loved ..."
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
20.  Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
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  "Introduction cautions new readers that it has spoilers - how refreshing: other publishers take note!"
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