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A Listmania! list by "charith10"
 
Catch-22
1.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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  "The greatest novel in the english language...comic, tragic, unsentimental and brilliant."
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A Farewell To Arms
2.  A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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  "As honest an account of love and life that was ever written."
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Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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  "Baldwins study of the universal human condition has an emotional resonance that is as precious, flawed, beautiful and doomed as the characters which it depicts."
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Atomised
4.  Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
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  "A hugely ambitious novel that flaunts the authors intellect yet avoids the pitfalls of pretention."
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On the Road
5.  On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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  "Like all the best romantic literature this is simple, honest, fluid and timeless.  A love story about life and those who embrace it."
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The Name Of The Rose
6.  The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
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  "So much more than just a murder mystery...."
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The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)
7.  The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "Open to endless interpretations, this deceptively simple novel is Kafka's finest achievement."
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Dispatches (Picador)
8.  Dispatches (Picador) by Michael Herr
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  "An unfliching portrait of the surreal apocalypse that was Vietnam."
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Tom Jones
9.  Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
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  "The original 'controversial novel'...viciously witty, knowingly ironic and perfectly executed."
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A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin)
10.  A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
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  "Surreal, warped, brutal, vibrant and vital.  One of the most extraordinary works of all time...Burgess stretches the limits of language and the boundaries of the imagination."
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
11.  The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  "A simultaneously tender and harsh indictment of the corrupting influence of money."
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Rebecca
12.  Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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  ""Last night i dreamt i went to Manderley again"...the greatest opening line of any novel ever written."
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Cruising Paradise: Tales
13.  Cruising Paradise: Tales by Sam Shepard
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  "Evocative and melancholic slices of sun drenched americana. Shepard proves himself as a short story maestro of impressive economy and startling emotional resonance."
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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Modern Classics)
14.  The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Modern Classics) by Arthur Miller
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  "Arthur Miller uses a 1692 witch hunt to draw parallels with McCarthy era moral panic in this devastating play."
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Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
15.  Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
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  "A surprisingly dark and subtly affecting novel  from the premier chronicler of English society."
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood
16.  Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood by Peter Biskind
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  "Gossip galore and plenty of scandoulous anecdotes in Biskinds definitive document of 70's American cinema."
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