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A Listmania! list by Daniel Read "djbrd" (Berlin)
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For Esmé - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories
1.  For Esmé - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories by J.D. Salinger
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  "4 of the 9 have never been bettered, I don't think. The rest are pretty good."
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The Catcher in the Rye
2.  The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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  "Read this and speak like Holden for a week, ya goddam phoney."
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Franny and Zooey
3.  Franny and Zooey by J. Salinger
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  "Salinger's answer to Holden's predicament?"
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Love in a Cold Climate (Penguin Modern Classics)
4.  Love in a Cold Climate (Penguin Modern Classics) by Nancy Mitford
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  "Writing almost as wonderful and witty as Salinger's"
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
5.  Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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  "Light as a souffle, amazing characterisation."
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A Farewell To Arms
6.  A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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  "Is it fiction? A style of his own."
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
7.  Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
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  "Ditto. I found it took some getting used to, like olives, but then..."
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The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
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  "Unedited. Liberating. Read this and go hike up a mountain. Get off the road."
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The End of Alice
9.  The End of Alice by A. M. Homes
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  "As dark as they come. All of her books are good. This is the best."
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Atomised
10.  Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
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  "Not quite as dark, but getting there."
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Bombardiers
11.  Bombardiers by Po Bronson
The list author says:
  "A bit like Catch-22 but better. What a shame that Po gave up writing fiction."
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Leviathan (FF Classics)
12.  Leviathan (FF Classics) by Paul Auster
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  "I must have read more books by Auster than by any other single author."
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The Rules of Attraction
13.  The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
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  "Brett's best. I like the style, the shifting points of view. American Psycho is all here only without the lists, pornography and nastiness."
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A Scanner Darkly (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
14.  A Scanner Darkly (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by Philip K. Dick
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  "Dick's best. Noone ever did paranoia better."
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Neuromancer
15.  Neuromancer by William Gibson
The list author says:
  "Gibson's first and (by far) his best. Having read this made the Matrix seem very dull."
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
16.  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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  "It all gets a bit weird towards the end."
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The Wonders Of The Invisible World
17.  The Wonders Of The Invisible World by David Gates
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  "Short stories with frayed nerves. Captures the mundanely incredible present."
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Cold Water
18.  Cold Water by Gwendoline Riley
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  "Holden as a girl, in Manchester, without much money. The descriptions of mundane details are prose poetry. Her second was a very pale imitation of this, her first."
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The Grapes of Wrath
19.  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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  "A gut wrenching portrayal of the brutality of (American) capitalism. Was there ever a more memorable final scene? Don't read to be uplifted."
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The Remains of the Day
20.  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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  "Not one hundred percent convincing perhaps, but still, very clever, very moving, very easy to read (even after having seen the film)."
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