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1.  The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
The list author says:
  "This is what reading is all about - joyously real"
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: House of Flowers. A Diamond Guitar. A Christmas Memory: WITH House of Flowers
2.  Breakfast at Tiffany's: House of Flowers. A Diamond Guitar. A Christmas Memory: WITH House of Flowers by Truman Capote
The list author says:
  "I don't know why I was suspicious of this, but it is excellent, especially the last story"
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A Star Called Henry
3.  A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
The list author says:
  "A surprisingly good recreation of the Irish rising - when will the next two parts be finished?"
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Bad Land
4.  Bad Land by Jonathan Raban
The list author says:
  "Fascinating and engrossing - even better when read with Hunting Mr Heartbreak and Passage to Juneau"
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A Good Place to Die (Panther)
5.  A Good Place to Die (Panther) by James Buchan
The list author says:
  "It doesn't quite work, but it is so different, and has such beautiful passages that you forgive it"
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A Country Doctor's Notebook
6.  A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
The list author says:
  "Enter the past you wouldn't want to visit written as if by a contemporary"
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Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
7.  Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
The list author says:
  "I know it has a stupid title, and is a bit of a trick book, but it is wonderful - feel that wind in your hair!"
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers
The list author says:
  "Read everything, but start here.  The South as you imagine it was."
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Breathing Lessons
9.  Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
The list author says:
  "I am slowly reading everything else she has written, but this is an excellent starting place.  Life like you know it might be."
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The Radetzky March (Penguin Modern Classics)
10.  The Radetzky March (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joseph Roth
The list author says:
  "You may wonder what this doing here - but it is so elegaic.  To read slowly - with coffee!"
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Eucalyptus (Panther)
11.  Eucalyptus (Panther) by Murray Bail
The list author says:
  "An adult fairy tale that you don't want to end."
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The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage (Panther)
12.  The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage (Panther) by W. G. Sebald
The list author says:
  "I do not know what it is, except that it is brilliant.  Read, and wonder how no one has done something so good before."
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Elephant
13.  Elephant by Raymond Carver
The list author says:
  "Deceptively simple, but beautifully crafted.  Unfortunately there are all too few stories"
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A History of Reading
14.  A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
The list author says:
  "Not the place, the activity.  Great fun."
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Fugitive Pieces
15.  Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The list author says:
  "Her only novel, but the language is a poet's, and it makes it so precise."
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Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics)
16.  Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics) by Sherwood Anderson
The list author says:
  "What it might have been back then - wonderful"
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The Blue Flower
17.  The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
The list author says:
  "So slim, so elegantly written, so excellent"
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The Gift of Stones
18.  The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace
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  "A modern Inheritors - with a believable landscape"
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Rabbit, Run
19.  Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The list author says:
  "I'm not quite convinced, but there is some beautiful prose"
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So Long, See You Tomorrow (Panther)
20.  So Long, See You Tomorrow (Panther) by William Maxwell
The list author says:
  "It may be short, but it is intoxicating.  Again beautiful prose, but with more soul."
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Waterland
21.  Waterland by Graham Swift
The list author says:
  "It stays in the mind long after you have finished it.  Again an excellent sense of place."
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium
22.  From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple
The list author says:
  "Very different, but an enlightening and enjoyable journey"
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Morality Play
23.  Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
The list author says:
  "Another time, another place, but you feel you could be there."
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The Child In Time
24.  The Child In Time by Ian McEwan
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  "Haunting"
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Puck of Pook's Hill (Twentieth Century Classics)
25.  Puck of Pook's Hill (Twentieth Century Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
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  "Lose your suspension of disbelief and they might be contrived.  But taken in the right spirit and these are storytelling at its best"
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