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A Dandy in Aspic
1.  A Dandy in Aspic by Derek Marlowe
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  "A lost cold war spy classic."
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (Penguin Modern Classics)
2.  The Monkey Wrench Gang (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward Abbey
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  "From an age when environmentalism was about doing, not talking."
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Mason and Dixon
3.  Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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  "The best candidate yet for the "Great American Novel"."
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Antwerp (Five Star Paperback)
4.  Antwerp (Five Star Paperback) by Nicholas Royle
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  "A superb evocation of a gritty port city."
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GB84
5.  GB84 by David Peace
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  "One side of the Eighties: Class war narrated."
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The Line of Beauty
6.  The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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  "The opposite side of the Eighties in London in crisp prose."
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The Road
7.  The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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  "We could all have this in store."
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Motherless Brooklyn
8.  Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
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  "A cast of characters patrol the "it" place of the moment."
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
9.  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
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  "A good novel about comic book heroes? Unlikely, but this is it."
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Under the Frog
10.  Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
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  "The Hungarian uprising and Basketball intertwined."
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The Twenty-Seventh City (Bestselling Backlist)
11.  The Twenty-Seventh City (Bestselling Backlist) by Jonathan Franzen
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  "Does for St. Louis what The Wire does for Baltimore."
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
12.  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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  "More than a decade's absence and more than worth the wait."
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The Namesake
13.  The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
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  "The immigrant experience described to perfection."
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The Shipping News
14.  The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
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  "Knotty, bewitching sentences."
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Downriver
15.  Downriver by Iain Sinclair
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  "Research on the hoof of the East London hood."
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The Malayan Trilogy: "Time for a Tiger", "Enemy in the Blanket", "Beds in the East" (Vintage Classics)
16.  The Malayan Trilogy: "Time for a Tiger", "Enemy in the Blanket", "Beds in the East" (Vintage Classics) by Anthony Burgess
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  "Burgess captures the birth of a nation."
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Barnaby Rudge (Wordsworth Classics)
17.  Barnaby Rudge (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
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  "Unjustly overlooked. This is far from minor Dickens."
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Bodies
18.  Bodies by Jed Mercurio
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  "A chilling condemnation of market based health care."
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Complicity
19.  Complicity by Iain Banks
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  "Stomach churning, but gripping."
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Daniel Deronda (Wordsworth Classics)
20.  Daniel Deronda (Wordsworth Classics) by George Eliot
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  "Psychological depth and an in your face honesty."
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