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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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  "This was on my 'O' level syllabus and was the best thing about my education."
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A Prayer For Owen Meany
2.  A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
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  "The book that almost made me believe in God and WANT TO TALK IN CAPITALS"
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
3.  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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  "My first Murakami and possibly his finest, it made me want to jump down the nearest well to see what happened"
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The Wasp Factory
4.  The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
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  "Banks never bettered his debut, a twisted contemporary gothic horror"
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Cloud Atlas
5.  Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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  "A Russian doll of a novel - derivative yet also highly original and inventive"
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Riddley Walker
6.  Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The list author says:
  "One of Mitchell's sources for 'Cloud Atlas', myth and magic meet metaphysics in post-apocalyptic Kent"
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Another Roadside Attraction
7.  Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
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  "As mad as a box of frogs and highly offensive to Catholics, ergo it's brilliant"
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The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Philip K. Dick
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  "About the most accessible and coherent of Dick's bizarre, paranoid pantheon, visits what life would be like if the Nazis had won WWII"
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American Gods
9.  American Gods by Neil Gaiman
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  "A dark and surreal modern mythological mystery novel"
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Nights At The Circus
10.  Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
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  "A magical realist, vaudevillian, Victorian feminist fairy tale"
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Anna Karenin (Classics)
11.  Anna Karenin (Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
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  "I'm not usually a fan of historical novels but this is one notable exception"
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Catch-22
12.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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  "It would be funny if it wasn't true ... so true its title entered the lexicon"
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Oryx and Crake
13.  Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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  "What could be just around the corner if biotech gets into the wrong hands"
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What a Carve Up! (Essential Penguin)
14.  What a Carve Up! (Essential Penguin) by Jonathan Coe
The list author says:
  "A hilarious revenge fantasy for diehard socialists, bleeding heart liberals and all those who suffered under Thatcher"
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High-Rise
15.  High-Rise by J. G. Ballard
The list author says:
  "A great place to start with Ballard, and another good reason not to live in a block of flats"
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Vurt
16.  Vurt by Jeff Noon
The list author says:
  "It's sci-fi, Jim, but not as we know it. The future's bright, the future's hallucinogenic."
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Foucault's Pendulum
17.  Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The list author says:
  "A glorious debunking of all sorts of conspiracy theory nonsense disguised as a historical detective novel"
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