Best in English - my top 25

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Headlong
1.  Headlong by Michael Frayn
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  "You're taken Headlong into this exciting story"
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The Luxury of Exile
2.  The Luxury of Exile by Louis Buss
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  "Like Headlong but more intimate and sad"
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The Collector (Vintage Classics)
3.  The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
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  "Collector is the ultimate 'getting the unobtainable' novel"
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The Wasp Factory
4.  The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
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  "Quirky and horrific"
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The Octopus: The Epic of Wheat v. 1: A Story of California (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
5.  The Octopus: The Epic of Wheat v. 1: A Story of California (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Frank Norris
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  "My Norris recommendation - Realism of Zola meets Serge Leone in Wheat Country"
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The Road
6.  The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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  "What are these two really trying to find?"
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Of Human Bondage (Modern Library)
7.  Of Human Bondage (Modern Library) by W. Somerset Maugham
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  "My Maughan recommendation - a story about any man's way in life"
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Morality Play
8.  Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
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  "Original novel where a troop of actors play detective"
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A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
9.  A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
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  "Icon - one of those must reads (really)"
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The Odd Women (Penguin Classics)
10.  The Odd Women (Penguin Classics) by George Gissing
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  "My Gissing recommendation - slow and boring for some perhaps"
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Fingersmith
11.  Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
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  "My Waters recommendation - Dickens-like tale"
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Waterland
12.  Waterland by Graham Swift
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  "My Swift recommendation - a 'fenland flat' dark tale"
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
13.  A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
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  "My Dickens recommendation - exciting and shortish example"
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Ivanhoe (Wordsworth Classics)
14.  Ivanhoe (Wordsworth Classics) by Sir Walter Scott
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  "A lost classic adventure - where Robin Hood originated"
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The Woman In Black
15.  The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
The list author says:
  "The best  ghost horror story - genuine goose-bumps"
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Midnight's Children
16.  Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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  "My Rushdie recommendation - Imagination and superheros"
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I, Claudius (Penguin Classics)
17.  I, Claudius (Penguin Classics) by Robert Graves
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  "Rome and power"
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Wordsworth Classics)
18.  The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Wordsworth Classics) by James Hogg
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  "Absolutely a lost classic, this really really is brilliant"
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics)
19.  Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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  "Slavery up front and personal"
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Brighton Rock
20.  Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
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  "My Greene recommendation - classic british stories"
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Hope
21.  Hope by Glen Duncan
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  "Being male"
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Nineteen Eighty-four
22.  Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
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  "Icon - one of those must reads (really)"
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The Red And The Green (Vintage classics)
23.  The Red And The Green (Vintage classics) by Iris Murdoch
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  "My Murdoch recommendation - Family & Easter rising -"
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Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
24.  Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm Lowry
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  "Alcohol and heat"
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Ben-Hur (Signet Classics)
25.  Ben-Hur (Signet Classics) by Lew Wallace
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  "Persecution, christians, power and love"
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