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In Search of Lost Time (Proust Complete - 6 Volume Box Set) (Modern Library)
1.  In Search of Lost Time (Proust Complete - 6 Volume Box Set) (Modern Library) by Marcel Proust
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  "Not only is 'In Search..' the greatest novel of all time but is, in my opinion, one of the greatest works of art in any form"
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Moby-Dick (Vintage Classics)
2.  Moby-Dick (Vintage Classics) by Herman Melville
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  "The premier American novel. A Shakespearean tragedy at sea"
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The Recognitions
3.  The Recognitions by William Gaddis
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
4.  The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  "A post-modern masterpiece. The ramblings of an insane dictator"
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Rabbit Angstrom A Tetralogy: (Rabbit Run,Rabbit Redux,Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest): A Tetralogy - "Rabbit, Run", "Rabbit Redux", "Rabbit Is Rich", "Rabbit at Rest" (Everyman's Library Classics)
5.  Rabbit Angstrom A Tetralogy: (Rabbit Run,Rabbit Redux,Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest): A Tetralogy - "Rabbit, Run", "Rabbit Redux", "Rabbit Is Rich", "Rabbit at Rest" (Everyman's Library Classics) by John Updike
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  "An unsentimental account of a man coping with adulthood and the realisation that he is not brilliant or special. Rabbit is selfish, dissatisfied, confused, immature, and human (all too human)"
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Austerlitz
6.  Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
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  "An author with a Proustian ability to conjure beauty out of the minutiae of human experience, as well as being able to skillfully tackle the 'bigger' issues"
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The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)
7.  The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "The absurdity of human existence exposed. Horrifying, laughable and inescapable. A book that no doubt adorns Larry David's bedside table"
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Independent People
8.  Independent People by Halldor Laxness
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  "A most grim fairytale about the perils of sheep farming. The narrative incorporates mythology, local legends, and lots of black humour. The end had me damp about the eyes, which is no mean feat"
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The Age of Innocence (Vintage Classics)
9.  The Age of Innocence (Vintage Classics) by Edith Wharton
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  "The usually cynical Ms Wharton acknowledges that security and conventionality are not always a straightjacket and that it isn't necessary to forsake all for the beautiful, glittering and exotic"
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Sons And Lovers (Everyman's Library classics)
10.  Sons And Lovers (Everyman's Library classics) by D H Lawrence
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  "Seemingly considered to be dated and mysogynistic these days. This is, in fact, the real portrait of an artist. The sexual and intellectual awakening of a young working class man"
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The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics)
11.  The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James
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  "I can't decide whether i think this is the greatest novel ever written or the most maddening. Or both. A subtle (really subtle) and moving, often amusing, account of regret and missed opportunities."
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The Magic Mountain
12.  The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The list author says:
  "I recommend the Woods translation of this vast, eerie, novel"
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The Leopard: Revised and with new material (Vintage Classics)
13.  The Leopard: Revised and with new material (Vintage Classics) by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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  "Melancholic. It's the end of a life and the end of an era for Don Fabrizio, who bears both with resigned humour"
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Kristin Lavransdatter (Penguin Classics)
14.  Kristin Lavransdatter (Penguin Classics) by Sigrid Undset
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  "The most insightful novel about human relationships i have read since Middlemarch"
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Journey to the End of the Night
15.  Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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  "The worlds last coward staggers from one disaster to the next"
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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
16.  Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
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  "Thank you Jim, i never knew that a man looking up a girl's skirt could be rendered so beautifully. Here Joyce immortalises the mundane and the dirty, but fortunately wraps them, tinsel-like, in poetry"
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The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
17.  The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
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  "The hilarious tale of the Machiavellian Julien Sorel, who, due to a raging ego and working class guilt, attempts to raise himself up from poverty by manipulating half of France and their daughters"
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The Tin Drum (Vintage Classics)
18.  The Tin Drum (Vintage Classics) by Gunter Grass
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  "Immortalised by Bowie and Bing, although i think they left out the bit about the kid throwing himself down the stairs...pa-rum-pum-pum-pum a-rum-pum-pum-pum"
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The Unconsoled
19.  The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
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  "Unfairly dismissed by some as his weakest novel, when, for me, it is his masterpiece. A brave, moving, and surreal work"
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Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
20.  Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
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  "The French Don Quixote, albeit more stylish and easier to read. The last 30 or so pages are amongst the most shocking ever penned"
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War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
21.  War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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  "A man so in tune with the universal and ageless aspects of the human condition that reading Tolstoy is actually a comforting experience."
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The Story of the Stone: a Chinese Novel: Vol 1, The Golden Days (Penguin Classics)
22.  The Story of the Stone: a Chinese Novel: Vol 1, The Golden Days (Penguin Classics) by Cao Xueqin
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  "Magical. Studio Ghibli in novel form. The charming, and tragic, story of the stone. An unutilized piece of Heaven is reincarnated on earth in the form of the precocious Bao-yu"
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Candide or, Optimism (Modern Library)
23.  Candide or, Optimism (Modern Library) by Voltaire
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  "Follow the adventures of poor unfortunate Candide as he attempts to maintain a positive attitude in the face of every possible kind of brutal act, tragedy and disaster"
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Germinal (Penguin Classics)
24.  Germinal (Penguin Classics) by Émile Zola
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  "Read this at your peril. A book so bleak, with characters so worthy of empathy, that it is absolutely devastating. I was almost in pain reading it."
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Demons: A Novel in Three Parts
25.  Demons: A Novel in Three Parts by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  "Plays with the reader, and the characters, like a cat with a spider. Written as though in a fever, this is an almost incomprehensible mess at times, but is also a mesmeric sardonic masterpiece"
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