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Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
1.  Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
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  "The greatest Victorian novel? Perhaps. A blindingly good read? Absolutely."
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The Sheltering Sky
2.  The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
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  "Oppressive heat. Existential hell. And beautiful, beguiling writing."
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Pedro Páramo (Five Star)
3.  Pedro Páramo (Five Star) by Juan Rulfo
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  "Daddy of the Latin American magical realist school. Superb."
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Journey to the End of the Night
4.  Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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  "Daddy of Bukowski, Fante et al? Scorching opening 200 pages - Celine hates everybody/everything!"
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Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)
5.  Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville
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  "A big book about a big fish? No, not really. Just read it."
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Libra
6.  Libra by Don DeLillo
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  "It takes seconds to take a life but impossible to write a history thereof."
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The Lover (Flamingo)
7.  The Lover (Flamingo) by Marguerite Duras
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  "Taut, elegant, erotic, sublime."
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American Psycho
8.  American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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  "A most wonderful study of alienation. Far better than even the ego-inflated author thinks it is."
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Barabbas (Vintage International)
9.  Barabbas (Vintage International) by Lagerkvist
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  "Wonderful novel from the 1951 Nobel Laureate in Literature."
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General of the Dead Army
10.  General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
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  "Hugely affecting and intelligent piece."
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Wise Blood
11.  Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
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  "Excellent Southern Gothic novel by writer who is actually one of the absolute masters of the short story."
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The Grapes of Wrath
12.  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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  "Massively satisfying dose of a poet's anger."
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As I Lay Dying
13.  As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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  "Faulkner's finest."
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
14.  The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bloomsbury Film Classics) by James M. Cain
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  "Simple, sheer, muscular: a feast of good, plain writing."
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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (Vintage Classics)
15.  The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (Vintage Classics) by Yukio Mishima
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  "Strangely compelling. Well-composed and curious."
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