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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers)
1.  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
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  "Bloody brilliant, you can smell him, hear the crowd, so incredibly well written and evocative but the only decent book by Patrick Suskind.  Marvellous"
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Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics)
2.  Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Thackeray
The list author says:
  "So relevant to today's life, we have the same feelings and emotions - superb social commentary despite being set in the 19th century; we all know a Becky"
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Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)
3.  Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
The list author says:
  "Amazing book, needs to be read once a year, excellent, a real must on anyone's book shelf"
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The Famished Road
4.  The Famished Road by Ben Okri
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  "A wonderful read....spirits in the trees.....magical, harsh, brutal at times, but uplifting"
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Midnight's Children
5.  Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The list author says:
  "The first I'd recommend in a series of surreal/magical realism type books I've come to love - can anyone recommend more?!  It is easy to read, and a great story"
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
6.  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The list author says:
  "My fave Murakami, - what a great find, a new and slightly weird and surreal author!!  However, after having read all but the latest, he becomes repetitious - the same characters and ears in the plots"
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin)
7.  One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The list author says:
  "Thank you to my Colombian Spanish teacher in London, what a great author, though seemingly lots of people find this hard going.  Surreal/magically strange - great!"
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Love in the Time of Cholera
8.  Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The list author says:
  "Wonderful!  Considerably fewer characters than 100 Years...a beautiful and senstitive (non soppy!) love story"
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Diary
9.  Diary by Chuck Palahnuik
The list author says:
  "Nicely weird.  A woman keeps a diary for her husband who is in hospital, in a coma.  She starts to unravel his behaviour before the accident, or was it an accident?"
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Anna Karenina (Russian Language Edition)
10.  Anna Karenina (Russian Language Edition) by L.N. Tolstoy
The list author says:
  "Ok, finished with the surreal books.  This is such a fantastic and well written book, a true classic, easy to read, real characters, sad, but still parallels today's busy life"
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Regeneration
11.  Regeneration by Pat Barker
The list author says:
  "Don't be put off by the WW1 nature...and do read the other 2 books in the trilogy, really poignant and brilliantly crafted, a privilege to read"
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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
12.  The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
The list author says:
  "A real feel good book, similis and messages galore; if you like this, then also try Candide or Jonathan Livingstone Seagull or the first half of the Celestine Prophecy"
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A Fine Balance
13.  A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The list author says:
  "Wow!  A beautifully written book, full of compassion, sadness, humour, serendipity, incredible characters, quite an epic....a real saga.  Try also The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru"
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The Wasp Factory
14.  The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The list author says:
  "An excellent book; Iain Banks' first, and it shows.  Truly imaginative, different, funny, shocking and completely the best he's ever written"
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Blindness
15.  Blindness by Jose Saramago
The list author says:
  "This is bleak, stark, disturbing.  About the breakdown of society and the awful things we do to each other.  Think of any of the world's wars, and these are described here.  But excellent and powerful"
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The Way I Found Her
16.  The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
The list author says:
  "Recommend all of Rose Tremain.  This is my favourite, about life seen through the eyes of a 13 yr old boy in Paris with his mother and their friend.  But also do try Music & Silence and Restoration"
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