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The Sun Also Rises
1.  The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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  "The Master of image and pace"
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2666
2.  2666 by Roberto Bolano
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  "Creates atmosphere better than anyone and sentence depth"
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The Dead Fish Museum (Vintage Contemporaries)
3.  The Dead Fish Museum (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles D'Ambrosio
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  "The most beautifully complex yet natural short story writer"
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Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers)
4.  Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers) by Julio Cortazar
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  "Intelligent, Beautiful, Unique"
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House Of Leaves
5.  House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
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  "A noir mental ride with the most sensual and vivid physical descriptions"
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See Under: Love (Picador Books)
6.  See Under: Love (Picador Books) by David Grossman
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  "Grossman stretches language and emotion to their absolute limits"
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Snow Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
7.  Snow Country (Penguin Modern Classics) by Yasunari Kawabata
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  "Perfect Japanese balance and restraint"
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Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
8.  Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus
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  "So gentle and atmospheric, subtle; opens the depths of small, everyday life moments"
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Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
9.  Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
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  "Funny, Bizarre, Luscious, Layered"
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Artificial Respiration (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao)
10.  Artificial Respiration (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao) by Ricardo Piglia
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  "The book that can never say what it's about... puzzles and games"
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Jesus' Son
11.  Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
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  "This drunken traipse through abuse and death is also one of the most cutting and true"
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Love and Obstacles
12.  Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
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  "Oblique, real, no non-sense stories about immigration and foreign lands"
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Infinite Jest
13.  Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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  "Might not be the cleanest of prose, but it's the funniest and most daring"
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The Pugilist at Rest: Stories
14.  The Pugilist at Rest: Stories by Thom Jones
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  "Not always on, but when Jones hits a groove you fly through the prose wishing you could hold on just a second longer"
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El Arbol De La Ciencia: El Arbol De La Ciencia (Letras hispánicas)
15.  El Arbol De La Ciencia: El Arbol De La Ciencia (Letras hispánicas) by Pio Baroja
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  "I read this in Spanish but Barroja was a master of easy, clear, precise language"
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Mr Sammler's Planet (Penguin Modern Classics)
16.  Mr Sammler's Planet (Penguin Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
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  "Simply one of the best books by one of the best writers to live"
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekov (Modern Library Classics)
17.  Selected Stories of Anton Chekov (Modern Library Classics) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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  "You can't deny the Chekhov!"
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Kokoro
18.  Kokoro by Soseki Natsume
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  "This is the only book I've read by Soseki, but it's so clean and musical."
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How We Are Hungry
19.  How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
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  "Inventive and heartfelt, amazing stories"
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Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)
20.  Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville
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  "Epic.  Best first chapter of any book.  Amazing boat scenes."
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