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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (King Penguin)
1.  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (King Penguin) by Milan Kundera
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  "When he still wrote in Czech and Hollywood hadn't looked in his direction with the same aloof certainty that his male characters look at his female ones. Don't let it fade."
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Invisible Cities
2.  Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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  "It encompasses all possibilities, except reality. Calvino should be given a hand in designing the next planet."
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The Music of Chance
3.  The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
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  "For one whole year I did nothing but read this. (And serve drunks.)"
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
4.  Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
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  "I received a death threat by phone. It was a wrong number. That's Carveresque."
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Catch-22
5.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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  "Critics said he never wrote anything else as good. Nor did anyone else, he said."
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Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books)
6.  Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
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  "The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it from birth it would appear a hat trick."
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The Violent Effigy: Study of Dickens' Imagination
7.  The Violent Effigy: Study of Dickens' Imagination by John Carey
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  "I love Dickens. And this is as every bit as good. No Tom Pinch. Lots of combustion."
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Collected Stories
8.  Collected Stories by Peter Carey
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  "Eye popping inventiveness that his novels don't sustain."
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Time's Arrow or The Nature of the Offence
9.  Time's Arrow or The Nature of the Offence by Martin Amis
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  "One of the most original, and most implicitly moral novels of the last twenty years. Cleverer than its detractors."
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The Poetics of Space
10.  The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
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  "We are never real historians, but always near poets and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of poetry that was lost"
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
11.  The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  "The great novel of the twentieth century? As lean an examination of the failings of excess as you could wish."
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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
12.  Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
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  "My favourite classic English novel."
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Vanity Fair (English Library)
13.  Vanity Fair (English Library) by William Makepeace Thackeray
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  "My second favourite."
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