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Vineland
1.  Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
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  "The most madly inventive and accessible of all his books"
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White Noise (Picador Books)
2.  White Noise (Picador Books) by Don DeLillo
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  "Various characters' drakly comic preoccupations with death"
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Slaughterhouse 5 (Vintage Crucial Classics)
3.  Slaughterhouse 5 (Vintage Crucial Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
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  "Often mentioned in the same breath as Catch22 and with good reason"
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The Inferno
4.  The Inferno by Alighieri Dante
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  "The classic tale of man's fall from grace"
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Brighton Rock (Vintage classics)
5.  Brighton Rock (Vintage classics) by Graham Greene
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  "A story of small time criminals that's every bit as chilling today as when it was written"
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Factotum
6.  Factotum by Charles Bukowski
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  "An illustration of how just about every job is a pointless waste of time"
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
7.  Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
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  "Modern social issues brilliantly told by fable"
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Concrete Island
8.  Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard
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  "Reworking of the classic Robinson Crusoe tale"
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Metamorphosis and others stories
9.  Metamorphosis and others stories by Franz Kafka
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  "An exploration of the horror of modern life"
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The Wasp Factory
10.  The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
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  "A true original in the genre of gothic thrillers"
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High Fidelity
11.  High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
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  "A book that makes you nod your head in recognition as much as it makes you laugh out loud"
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Love in the Time of Cholera
12.  Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  "A perfect romantic fairy story"
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
13.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey
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  "Moving tale of humanity within the walls of an institution"
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Lost Souls
14.  Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
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  "Gothic horror story of the beautiful undead"
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Are You Experienced?
15.  Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe
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  "Cautionary tales for the would be world traveller that will have you laughing in public places"
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Satan Wants Me
16.  Satan Wants Me by Robert Irwin
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  "Drugs, adolescence and satan worship during the summer of love"
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The Naked and the Dead (Flamingo modern classics)
17.  The Naked and the Dead (Flamingo modern classics) by Norman Mailer
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  "One of the most gripping war stories ever told"
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Memnoch The Devil (Volume 5 of The Vampire Chronicles)
18.  Memnoch The Devil (Volume 5 of The Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
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  "Hallucinatory journey for the Vampire Lestat thru the realms of heaven and hell"
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On the Road
19.  On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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  "The classic travelogue"
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Billy Budd (English Library)
20.  Billy Budd (English Library) by Herman Melville
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  "Collection of Melville's finest works"
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
21.  Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
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  "Horrifying stories of everyday life on the streets of 1950s Brooklyn"
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (Signet Classics)
22.  Pudd'nhead Wilson (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain
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  "Examination of the hypocritical social values of 19th century america"
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The Rum Diary
23.  The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
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  "How anyone could misplace a novel of this quality for almost 40 years is incredible"
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
24.  Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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  "Often cited as the greatest novel ever written and understandably so"
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The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear
25.  The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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  "Sherlock Holmes returns for his greatest adventure"
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