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V for Vendetta
1.  V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
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  "Welcome to Bush and Blair's Britain.  Becomes more relevant with each passing week."
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Electric Brae
2.  Electric Brae by Andrew Greig
The list author says:
  "Utterly beautiful and melancholic, this is the best Scottish novel I've ever read - and I've read quite a few."
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The Glass Palace
3.  The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
The list author says:
  "I've been to Burma, and this captures some of its incredible, elusive essence like nothing else I've read.  Sweeping, epic, impossible to put down."
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Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction)
4.  Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction) by Richard Yates
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  "All of modern suburban life herein.  Profoundly depressing, yet essential reading."
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Three to See the King
5.  Three to See the King by Magnus Mills
The list author says:
  "I love Mills - and this, like all of his other novels, is superb."
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The Snow Leopard
6.  The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
The list author says:
  "Very few books actually change your life, but this one might.  One of the three Greatest Living Travel Writers, with Theroux and Thubron."
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord (Vintage)
7.  At Play in the Fields of the Lord (Vintage) by Peter Matthiessen
The list author says:
  "His non-fiction is stunning, his fiction every bit as good.  Almost as good as actually going to Peru, but cheaper."
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
8.  Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
The list author says:
  "I picked this one, but really any of Theroux's travel writing could be here - irascible, yet profound and lyrical.  Not too sure about his fiction, though."
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Ulverton
9.  Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
The list author says:
  "A difficult read, and no mistaking, but persevere and you'll have scratched further below the surface of Englishness than most people ever do."
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
10.  City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
The list author says:
  "I read this, and now feel like I've spent a year in the dazzling kaleidoscope of Delhi myself.  That has to be highest-quality travel writing."
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As it is in Heaven
11.  As it is in Heaven by Niall Williams
The list author says:
  "A wise, beautiful, lyrical, life-enhancing book.  Poetry flows in Williams' words like no other writer I've read."
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Lost Nation
12.  Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent
The list author says:
  "In some ways this is Cormac McCarthy Lite - but that's no bad thing.  Brutal and unforgiving, it's a mesmerising portait of frontier life."
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Affliction
13.  Affliction by Russell Banks
The list author says:
  "Touch the snow, feel the toothache, see inside the tortured soul of a man about to lose it all.  Stunning."
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The Sheltering Sky
14.  The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
The list author says:
  "I read this whilst in Morocco.  It made me want to get the hell out of there, in the way it heads straight for the diseased heart of a very strange and unsettling country. Brilliant."
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The Stories of Paul Bowles
15.  The Stories of Paul Bowles by Paul Bowles
The list author says:
  "Without a doubt, the greatest short story writer of the last century.  Fantastically bizarre and edgy, evocative and profound."
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Ripley Bogle
16.  Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson
The list author says:
  "A tough call between this and Eureka Street - by far the best Northern Irish novelist working at the moment."
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Greenvoe
17.  Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown
The list author says:
  "Good old George Mackay Brown - perhaps the last chroicler of a world that is disappearing all around us, and will be utterly gone in our lifetimes. Tragic and beautiful."
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Under the Skin
18.  Under the Skin by Michel Faber
The list author says:
  "Superbly creepy metaphor about factory farming, or simply off-the-wall horror?  Whatever - this grips, churns and amuses in equal measures."
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Spares
19.  Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
The list author says:
  "Smith is either eerily prescient, or has worked in prosthetics/genetics.  This is starting to happen, goddammit!"
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Mr Phillips
20.  Mr Phillips by John Lanchester
The list author says:
  "No-one does the crushingly tedious misery of routine better than the Brits; and nowhere has the horror of it been better chronicled than here."
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The Cutting Room
21.  The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
The list author says:
  "Modern gothic crossed with seedy detective novel.  This is completely gripping and has dollops of gratuitous gay sex, which are strangely fascinating."
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Timoleon Vieta Come Home
22.  Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
The list author says:
  "Probably best to avoid this if you're a dog lover, but otherwise well worth your time.  More like a collection of brilliant shorts than a novel, the doggy theme holds it all together."
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