What did the 20th Century do for you?

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Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death
1.  Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
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  "The greatest author of the 20th century, and this is his best work. Completely expands your idea of what a novel can be. Read it!"
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin)
2.  A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin) by John Kennedy Toole
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  "Ignatius J Reilly is surely the greatest comic character ever created - think a grotesque episode of The Simpsons in 1960s New Orleans"
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The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room"
3.  The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
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  "The detective novel cut up and re-cooked. Just a great book"
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The Bell Jar
4.  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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  "Very intense, close up picture of a disintergrating mind."
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
5.  1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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  "A cliche, but this book gets more frightening as it gets older - the current 'war on terror' could be straight from these pages"
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Fight Club
6.  Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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  "Brutal and hilarious satire, just don't take it too seriously!"
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Ishmael
7.  Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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  "First part of a trilogy, nothing is the same once you've read it. Examines the history of our culture and asks (and answers), where did it all go wrong?"
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I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks)
8.  I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
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  "Modern zombie films owe a lot to this book"
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The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan)
9.  The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan) by John Irving
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  "It could be almost anything he has written - I guarantee this book will break your heart. They all do"
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The Rum Diary
10.  The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
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  "Hunter S Thompson gets wasted on rum. Alot"
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Ham on Rye
11.  Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
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  "Simaltaneously growing and decaying, Henry Chianski comes of age"
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Lolita (Penguin Classics)
12.  Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Craig Raine
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  "Get past the seedy associations, this is about the conflict between words and actions"
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The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
13.  The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
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  "Mother died today..."
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The Catcher in the Rye
14.  The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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  "Ignore the fact that crazy people seem to love this book, it is actually a very tender story about the fear of growing up"
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American Psycho
15.  American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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  "The most horrific book I've ever read - a twin picture of intensely violent murder and the complete banalily of the murderer"
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The Dice Man
16.  The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
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  "But the question is, would you?"
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The Pugilist at Rest: and other stories
17.  The Pugilist at Rest: and other stories by Thom Jones
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  "Short stories for men"
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The Beach
18.  The Beach by Alex Garland
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  "Better than the film - fantastically written picture of paradise and a paradise lost"
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Trainspotting
19.  Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
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  "Drugs are bad, okay"
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The Lawnmower Celebrity
20.  The Lawnmower Celebrity by Ben Hatch
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  "Hilarious and tragic - the antidote to Catcher in the Rye, this is Holden Caulfield growing up"
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
21.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey
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  "Probably an allegory, right? But worth it for just for the characters and their conflicts"
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White Noise (Picador Books)
22.  White Noise (Picador Books) by Don DeLillo
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  "Death warmed up. Literally. A comic book about mortality"
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Girlfriend in a Coma
23.  Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
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  "Growing up and facing the passing of time. Plus the world ends. Plus the title comes from a Smiths song. Can't be bad, can it?"
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
24.  Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
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  "Literature from the 'street'"
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The Brothers Karamazov
25.  The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  "Okay, not from the 20th century, but wonderfully epic and dense and modern enough for me to include. Contains everything there is to know about being alive. Just ask Eliot Rosewater..."
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