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A Farewell To Arms
1.  A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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  "That ending... You'll cry so much you'll dehydrate"
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Portnoy's Complaint
2.  Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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  "Catcher in the what??? This is the ultimate book of teen angst"
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The Remains of the Day
3.  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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  "A tragicomedy of manners. A must."
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
4.  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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  "Frustrating, perplexing, addictive. Kafka meets Bret Easton Ellis via Ian McEwan"
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
5.  The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  ""Tender is the Night" is NOT better! Cutting yet languid-- truly great."
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Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
6.  Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joyce James
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  "Joyce at his most accessible. Poignant and insightful"
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A Scanner Darkly
7.  A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
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  "So dark it's searing."
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics)
8.  Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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  "Just a great story, and ever so British"
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Catch-22
9.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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  "A cliched choice no doubt, but I still love it. Beauty in chaos."
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American Psycho
10.  American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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  "Utterly sick and depraved. You know that already, though."
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The Dice Man
11.  The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
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  "Not the best book ever, but seriously thought-provoking stuff"
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Mort: (Discworld Novel 4) (Discworld Novels)
12.  Mort: (Discworld Novel 4) (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
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  "A guilty pleasure. Probably the best Discworld novel."
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American Pastoral
13.  American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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  "One of the best books of the last twenty years? Cuts to the bone with an elegant blade"
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The Cement Garden
14.  The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
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  "Underrated McEwan--  devillishly nasty"
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The Green Mile (Read a Great Movie)
15.  The Green Mile (Read a Great Movie) by Stephen King
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  "Don't scoff. It's a great book-- Stephen King's best"
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The Secret History
16.  The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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  "Can't...stop...reading..."
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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog
17.  Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog by Dylan Thomas
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  "An almost forgotten book-- very tender and readable"
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The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)
18.  The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) by Margaret Atwood
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  "My, oh my. How scary."
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High Fidelity
19.  High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
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  "I love it to bits. So shoot me. Middle-brow lit at its best."
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Collected Poems
20.  Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
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  "My favourite poet-- not quite everything in here, but it's very affordable and mostly comprehensive"
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books)
21.  The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books) by Tom Wolfe
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  "A chunky beast of a novel. Sweeping, funny and savage"
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Great Expectations (Collector's Library)
22.  Great Expectations (Collector's Library) by David Pinching
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  "Couldn't go without mentioning a Dickens. My favourite one-- universally important and it has Dickens' most tragic character Miss Havisham in it."
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The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift)
23.  The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift) by Franz Kafka
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  "A nice cheap introduction to Kafka."
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Midnight's Children
24.  Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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  "A bit of a slog to get through, it's worth it though."
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Last Orders
25.  Last Orders by Graham Swift
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  "Poignant and true. Better than Waterland? Maybe..."
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