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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)
1.  The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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  "Atmospheric masterpiece from Joseph Conrad set in turn of the century London, the story of Verloc - the secret agent."
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The Man with the Golden Arm
2.  The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
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  "The best of Nelson Algrens novels, the story of heroin addict Frankie Machine will stick in your mind long after you have finished it."
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The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics)
3.  The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
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  "From the Wessex cycle of novels, Hardy tells the story of the Mayor of Casterbridge with all its twists and turns with great skill.  Famous for the wife selling scene."
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The Trial (Vintage Classics)
4.  The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "Kafkas The Trial, the occasionally darkly comic and brilliantly written story of Joseph K.  But what does it all mean?"
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
5.  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain
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  "Very definitely not just a childrens story, richly evocative of its time and place this is Twains masterpiece, the story of Huck and escaped slave Jim is a modern odessy that shouldnt be missed."
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Naked Lunch (Harperperennial Classics)
6.  Naked Lunch (Harperperennial Classics) by William Burroughs
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  "Weird, wonderful, dark satire and much else besides from W.S.Burroughs."
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Bel-ami (Classics)
7.  Bel-ami (Classics) by Guy Maupassant
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  "Maupassants vividly written novel captures the upper reaches of Parisian society with Bel Ami the frank, cynical and opportunistic hero."
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The Radetzky March
8.  The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
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  "Nobody writes quite like Joseph Roth, and this meloncholy anthem to the end of the Habsburg Empire is his masterpiece."
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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
9.  Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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  "A work of genius, the vividness of the writing and dialouge and its plot will have you hooked.  The most of finished of all Dostoyevskys novels."
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (Penguin Classics)
10.  Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
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  "One of my favourites, the story of Silas Marner the weaver is a little masterpiece of warm humanity set in the depressed conditions of early Industrial England."
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Dead Souls (Penguin Classics)
11.  Dead Souls (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol
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  "Darkly humouress and unrestrained satire from the Nikolai Gogol, unfortunately unfinished but still unforgetable tale of the enigmatic Chikov and his quest for Dead Souls."
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Pnin (Penguin Modern Classics)
12.  Pnin (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
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  "Nabokovs warmest and kindest novel, the affectionately portrayed life of Timofy Pnin as he does halting battle with American life and language in his own unforgetable way."
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A Scots Quair: "Sunset Song", "Cloud Howe" and "Grey Granite" (Canongate Classics)
13.  A Scots Quair: "Sunset Song", "Cloud Howe" and "Grey Granite" (Canongate Classics) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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  "Well worth the effort of getting on top of the Scots language to read this trilogy of novels set in the east of scotland in the early twentieth century.  Three moving and richly written novels."
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Journey to the End of the Night
14.  Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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  "Very likely deranged, but this work of genius by Celine is a warped masterpiece. The improbable story of his "heroes" wordly permabulations from Paris to the Congo to Detroit.  A glorious rant."
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Things Fall Apart (Pocket Penguin Classics)
15.  Things Fall Apart (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Chinua Achebe
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  "Achebes famous novel it captures the changes in an African village from the point of view of the villagers themselves. A wonderfuly written novel that truly gives a different perspective on the world."
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Tristram Shandy: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford World's Classics)
16.  Tristram Shandy: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford World's Classics) by Laurence Sterne
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  "Im a sort of unofficial missonary for this book.  You will never have laughed so much or read anything like it.  Either that or you will hate it?"
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How Late It Was How Late
17.  How Late It Was How Late by James Kelman
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  "Kelmans classic tale of Sammy who wakes in a park corner, stiff and sore after a two-day drinking binge and wearing another man's shoes. . . and things dont get better.  F--king genius."
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Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
18.  Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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  "Swifts "travel" book - an amazing satirical work."
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The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
19.  The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Bernard Malamud
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  "A virtuso performance by the not so well known as he should be Malamud.  The story of Yokov Bok, a Jewish carpenter in 19th century Kiev who is blamed for the murder of a 12 year old Christian boy."
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Don Quixote
20.  Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
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  "In Cervantes Don Quixote and Sancho Panza travel through 16th century Spain in a series of memorable and funny adventures.  Apparently the first ever novel."
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Fontamara (Everyman)
21.  Fontamara (Everyman) by Ignazio Silone
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  "Set in the 1930s Ignacio Silones novel tells the story of a village suffering with life under facism.  A good read from the 'Socialist without a party, and Christian without a Church'"
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Oxford World's Classics)
22.  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Oxford World's Classics) by Robert Tressell
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  "Immensely popular throughout the twentieth century, this work of Tressels is a masterpiece of committed working class writing."
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The Quiet American (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
23.  The Quiet American (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene
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  "Greenes prescient tale of early American involvement in what was then the French war in Indochina."
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The Great Gatsby (Oxford World's Classics)
24.  The Great Gatsby (Oxford World's Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  "Hardly seems to be a word wasted in Fitzgeralds tragic tale."
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Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)
25.  Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville
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  "The richly rewarding (once you get into it) and singular tale of the monomaniac captain Ahab's quest for the white whale."
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