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Diary of a Nobody (Wordsworth Classics)
1.  Diary of a Nobody (Wordsworth Classics) by George Grossmith
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  "Poking fun at middle-class mores at the end of the 19th century."
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Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog! (Penguin Popular Classics)
2.  Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog! (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
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  "The book I've re-read most. Sentimental, funny and irresistable."
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Dead Souls (Penguin Classics)
3.  Dead Souls (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol
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  "Brilliant humourous evocation of 19th Century Russia."
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The Devils: (The Possessed) (Penguin Classics)
4.  The Devils: (The Possessed) (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
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  "Chilling yet funny portrait of bogus Russian revolutionaries."
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A Dance to the Music of Time: vol.1: Spring
5.  A Dance to the Music of Time: vol.1: Spring by Anthony Powell
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  "12 consecutive novels to limber you up to try Proust! Absorbing."
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics - Tropic of Cancer
6.  Harper Perennial Modern Classics - Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
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  "Sexy , funny and so exuberant. Paris in the twenties."
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Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death
7.  Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
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  "Genre setting treatment of war with interlaced fantasy."
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Ginger Man
8.  Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
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  "The best of his non heroic heroes. Plenty of Irishness in this one."
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A Son Of The Circus
9.  A Son Of The Circus by John Irving
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  "Launches straight in to his off-beat world. Read them all!"
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Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics)
10.  Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Thackeray
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  "The best of the 19th century heavyweight social dramas."
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The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)
11.  The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  "Post Russian revolution satanic comedy masterpiece."
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Hand-reared Boy (Independent Voices)
12.  Hand-reared Boy (Independent Voices) by Brian W. Aldiss
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  "1st of trilogy. Highly evocative memoir of sexual awakening."
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Death In The Afternoon
13.  Death In The Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
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  "Non-fiction about bullfighting on a surface level. Macho stuff!"
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Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics)
14.  Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
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  "Brilliant evocation of rich young things in the 1920's"
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P. G. Wodehouse Life At Blandings Omnibus: Something Fresh, Summer Lightning, and, Heavy Weather
15.  P. G. Wodehouse Life At Blandings Omnibus: Something Fresh, Summer Lightning, and, Heavy Weather by P. G. Wodehouse
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  "Just three from many hilarious country house sagas."
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Travels With My Aunt (Vintage Classics)
16.  Travels With My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
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  "His most approachable and easily absorbed book."
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The Trial (Vintage Classics)
17.  The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "Such things as nightmares are made of."
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The Tin Drum
18.  The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
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  "Topical choice with author recently in the news"
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The Plague (Essential Penguin)
19.  The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
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  "Bleak and yet uplifting."
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Earthly Powers (Vintage Classics)
20.  Earthly Powers (Vintage Classics) by Anthony Burgess
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  "A much harder read, but worth the effort"
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Palimpsest: A Memoir
21.  Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
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  "Autobiography of a fascinating life and times in the USA"
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Borstal Boy (Arena Books)
22.  Borstal Boy (Arena Books) by Brendan Behan
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  "That lovable Irish twinkly thing shines through adversity"
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The Pickwick Papers (Wordsworth Classics)
23.  The Pickwick Papers (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
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  "The lighter essence of Dickens"
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The Big Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Mystery (Penguin Fiction)
24.  The Big Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Mystery (Penguin Fiction) by Raymond Chandler
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  "Unashamedly brash and appealing to fantasists everywhere"
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On the Road
25.  On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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  "Iconic to the those like me growing up in the late 50's/early 60's."
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