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Independent People (Vintage International)
1.  Independent People (Vintage International) by Halldor Laxness
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  "The epic tale of one, very determined Icelandic peasant"
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Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
2.  Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel Cervantes
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  "The epic (and very funny) tale of one mad Spaniard & his sidekick"
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The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics)
3.  The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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  "Dark, Russian and one of the greatest books ever written"
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In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics)
4.  In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics) by Truman Capote
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  "Dark, American. Capote's word for this story about an unprovoked murder  was 'faction'"
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The Third Policeman
5.  The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
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  "Surreal Irish satire. Bizarre. Very funny."
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Pride and Prejudice (Clothbound Classics)
6.  Pride and Prejudice (Clothbound Classics) by Jane Austen
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  "Greatest love story ever. Buy it hardcover so it'll survive the re-reading."
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The Silent Cry (Five Star)
7.  The Silent Cry (Five Star) by Kenzaburo Oe
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  "Dark, intense and very Japanese. Hard to describe beyond that."
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Clothbound Classics)
8.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Clothbound Classics) by Lewis Carroll
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  "At once a children's book, a book of mathematical jokes and a satire on British society. Brilliant."
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Death Comes For The Archbishop
9.  Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather
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  "Beautiful, lyrical novel set in southern deserts of US."
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Fish Can Sing (Panther)
10.  Fish Can Sing (Panther) by Halldor Laxness
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  "Beautiful, lyrical novel set in Iceland"
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Silence
11.  Silence by Shusaku. Endo
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  "Thought-provoking masterpiece about early Christian missionaries in Japan"
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
12.  Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
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  "A story set in the landscape of Emily Bronte's imagination. A wild world."
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Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)
13.  Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
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  "A deeper writer than Dickens. To my mind this and not Middlemarch is her masterpiece."
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The Black Sheep: (La Rabouilleuse) (Classics)
14.  The Black Sheep: (La Rabouilleuse) (Classics) by Honore Balzac
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  "A better writer than Dickens full stop. This book - surprisingly modern in its themes - is my favourite of his."
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
15.  The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Naguib Mahfouz
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  "The Balzac of Egypt. Buy as one book or separately as three but do read the whole trilogy."
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Dead Souls (Penguin Classics)
16.  Dead Souls (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol
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  "Ah, these Russians. Another dark masterpiece. Penguin do the best editions of these."
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Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Modern Classics)
17.  Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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  "Virginia Woolf defined the seasons for me with this book."
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The Quest for Christa T. (Virago Modern Classics)
18.  The Quest for Christa T. (Virago Modern Classics) by Christa Wolf
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  "Lyrical, thought-provoking German novel"
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Jugend ohne Gott
19.  Jugend ohne Gott by Ödön von Horváth
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  "Disturbing German novel (but be aware: this is in German)"
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The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)
20.  The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "The funniest, most disturbing novel about bureaucracy ever written"
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