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The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "Just the master of nightmares."
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The Immoralist (Penguin Modern Classics)
2.  The Immoralist (Penguin Modern Classics) by Andre Gide
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  "An involving story of a man torn between opressive duty and obsessive pleasure-seeking."
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Vertigo
3.  Vertigo by W G Sebald
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  "Various explorations of memory and forgetting. The Kafka chapter is fantastic."
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
4.  Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
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  "A mystery with heart, intellect, charm and a wondeful lead character."
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Fair Play
5.  Fair Play by Tove Jansson
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  "Beautiful stories from the author of the Moomin books.  Learn something about humanity."
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Eternal Monday
6.  Eternal Monday by Gyorgy Petri
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  "A hungarian poet who combines wondeful symbolism with historical commentary in his work."
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Death In Venice And Other Stories (Vintage Classics)
7.  Death In Venice And Other Stories (Vintage Classics) by Thomas Mann
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  "A short novel full of detail and awkwardness. But in a good way!"
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Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics)
8.  Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
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  "Sharp, grimly amusing tragi-comedy.  Still very relevant!"
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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (Pocket Penguin Classics)
9.  The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Georges Simenon
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  "Another gripping but also funny and thoughtful mystery."
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics - She Came to Stay
10.  Harper Perennial Modern Classics - She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir
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  "De Beauvior, like Satre, can have a rather impenetrable style at times, but books like this one make her well worth the effort."
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Steppenwolf (Penguin Modern Classics)
11.  Steppenwolf (Penguin Modern Classics) by Hermann Hesse
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  "Every teenager has to read this.  And then re-read it as an adult, and notice the nuances you missed the first time."
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The Man without Qualities
12.  The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil
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  "Long but fascinating if you're at all interested in the modernists - it's all in here."
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