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A Listmania! list by R. A. Langham "Rob Langham" (London, UK)
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Morvern Callar
1.  Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
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  "Warner does not get the plaudits that Irvine Welsh gets, but this book rivals Trainspotting for the title of best Scottish book of the last decade."
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Lolita
2.  Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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  "Its notoriety overshadows the simple fact that this book is packed full of virtuoso writing."
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Midnight's Children
3.  Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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  "A portrait of post-independence India that is so vivid, the images leap out of the page at you."
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Underworld
4.  Underworld by Don DeLillo
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  "De Lillo's achievement is best assessed in comparison to his earlier output. What went before is juvenilia - significant juvenilia - but juvenilia all the same. This book defines America."
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Moby Dick: Or, the White Whale (Penguin Classics)
5.  Moby Dick: Or, the White Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
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  "Melville manages to convince the reader that a description of different types of harpoon is the most important thing in the world."
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
6.  Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
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  "The iciness of Hoeg's prose reflects the subject matter of a compelling novel."
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The Wasp Factory
7.  The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
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  "OK - this is something of a sixth form student's favourite - but it is eerie and unputdownable nonetheless."
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The Thought Gang
8.  The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer
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  "Fischer deserves to be up there as one of the UK's favourite novelists, but I guess everyone thinks he is Hungarian."
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers)
9.  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
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  "To be read while wandering the streets of a central European city - in a daze."
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The Restraint of Beasts
10.  The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
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  "No epees or sabres here - this novel looks at another kind of fencing."
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The Tortilla Curtain
11.  The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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  "This is great portrait of what it means to live in that mad, bad and dangerous city, Los Angeles."
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Headlong
12.  Headlong by Michael Frayn
The list author says:
  "An illustration of why art and politics - in this case, sixteenth century Flemish - are inseparable."
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Lempriere's Dictionary
13.  Lempriere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk
The list author says:
  "You would never think this was written in the nineties - erudite and learned, but a rattling good read too."
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The Innocent
14.  The Innocent by Ian McEwan
The list author says:
  "McEwan's best book - although made into a rather poor film."
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Crime and Punishment (Classics)
15.  Crime and Punishment (Classics) by F. M. Dostoevsky
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  "The most gripping first ten chapters to a novel ever committed to paper."
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The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)
16.  The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) by Margaret Atwood
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  "A dystopian nightmare that may not be so very far from coming true in modern day America."
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)
17.  A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
The list author says:
  "A wonderful and charming ode to laziness in the Big Easy."
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The Sound And The Fury (Vintage Classics)
18.  The Sound And The Fury (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner
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  "Lovingly pieced together - a high watermark for American modernism."
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Tom Jones
19.  Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
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  "He would not rob a church, but that is all."
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Brightness Falls (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)
20.  Brightness Falls (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) by Jay McInerney
The list author says:
  "A totally undeserved reputation for vapidity - partly due to the film adaptation of one of his other books - this is a sensitive portrait of the wheels coming off the eighties bandwagon."
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