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A Listmania! list by stevethehammer "stevethehammer" (Essex, UK)
 
Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" (Continuum Contemporaries)
1.  Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" (Continuum Contemporaries) by Norbert Schurer
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  "Don't be put off by its difficult to read reputation. A brilliant story using brilliant language. No one does it like Rushdie"
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The God of Small Things
2.  The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
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  "Another Indian writer showing us how it should be done. If your can read the first sentence without desparately wanting to read the rest, then don't bother!"
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The Moor's Last Sigh
3.  The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
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  "The first Rushdie book I read, and a great introduction to the master."
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Shame
4.  Shame by Salman Rushdie
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  "No apologies for another Rushie, this allegory on Pakistsan is wonderful."
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The Little Friend
5.  The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
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  "I know The Secret History gets all the hype, but this gripped me more."
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Burmese Days (Penguin Modern Classics)
6.  Burmese Days (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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  "Of course 1984 and Animal Farm are classics, but this books will help you understand where Orwell got his politics from."
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The Plot Against America
7.  The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
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  "I could have chosen any number of Roth books, but this one is as good as place to start with the American master."
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The Corrections
8.  The Corrections 
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  "Believe the hype. A magnificent, energetic book."
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The Sexual Life Of Catherine M
9.  The Sexual Life Of Catherine M by Catherine Millet
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  "The very strange (and extremely graphic) story  of a women who is a posh Parisian publisher by day and a sexual explorer by night."
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Atonement
10.  Atonement by Ian McEwan
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  "The book McEwan should have won the booker for!"
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Oxford World's Classics: The Picture of Dorian Gray
11.  Oxford World's Classics: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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  "A genuine classic with a quoteable bon mot on every page."
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Maps for Lost Lovers
12.  Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
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  "A brilliant book dealing with a subject (the struggles of a Pakistani family living in England) that makes it required reading in 2006"
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The Line of Beauty
13.  The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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  "A book about gay men in the 80s and Tory politicians! Say no more!"
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