My favourite books by contemporary novelists

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These Demented Lands
1.  These Demented Lands by Alan Warner
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  "Enter the twisted world of Alan Warner."
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Hideous Kinky
2.  Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
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  "I skived a day off skool once to see Fester Reud read."
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Boxy an Star
3.  Boxy an Star by Daren King
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  "An amazing first novel. Required reading for the 'Y me' generation."
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Vurt
4.  Vurt by Jeff Noon
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  "Another great first novel. Admirable effort."
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Negative Space
5.  Negative Space by Zoe Strachan
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  "Blimey, another good first novel actually. Intense book."
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Breakfast Of Champions (Vintage Classics)
6.  Breakfast Of Champions (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
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  "Gets my vote for best living writer."
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Girlfriend in a Coma
7.  Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
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  "Writing with a social conscience. Yay!"
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American Psycho (Film Tie-In)
8.  American Psycho (Film Tie-In) by Bret Easton Ellis
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  "Great writing without a social conscience. Yay!"
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A Cornelius Calendar: The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine; Cornelius in the Twentieth Century: The Entropy Tango; Gold Diggers of 1977; The Alchemist's Question
9.  A Cornelius Calendar: The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine; Cornelius in the Twentieth Century: The Entropy Tango; Gold Diggers of 1977; The Alchemist's Question by Michael Moorcock
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  "Get your needle gun at the ready!"
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
10.  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Kundera Milan
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  "A true existentialist novel"
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Complicity (Abacus Paperback)
11.  Complicity (Abacus Paperback) by Iain Banks
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  "An almost perfectly plotted novel"
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The Fermata (Vintage Blue)
12.  The Fermata (Vintage Blue) by Nicholson Baker
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  "Funny, imaginative, erudite."
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Blow Job.
13.  Blow Job. 
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  "Amusing pulp."
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Slaves of New York (Bloomsbury Classic Reads)
14.  Slaves of New York (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Tama Janowitz
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  "Funny. Revenge of the nerds!"
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Warp: a Novel
15.  Warp: a Novel by Lev Grossman
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  "Simple but effective."
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Kill Kill Faster Faster
16.  Kill Kill Faster Faster by Joel Rose
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  "Adrenalin."
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Leviathan (FF Classics)
17.  Leviathan (FF Classics) by Paul Auster
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  "A modern classic."
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Sportswriter
18.  Sportswriter by Richard Ford
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  "So unbearably sad somehow."
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Underworld
19.  Underworld by Don DeLillo
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  "Good but not as good as others on this list."
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My Idea of Fun
20.  My Idea of Fun by Will Self
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  "Twisted."
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