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All the Pretty Horses: Volume One of The Border Trilogy
1.  All the Pretty Horses: Volume One of The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
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  "blood, spit and dust. and an elusive spanish beauty. the raw ingredients of life."
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All Quiet on the Orient Express
2.  All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills
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  "this is why dreams are never attained. spilt green paint, painted into a square."
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The Music of Chance
3.  The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
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  "a dry stone wall built by hand diagonally across a field."
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Too Loud A Solitude
4.  Too Loud A Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
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  "beauty only you know exists, hidden in a bale of crushed books."
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The novel which became 'Blade Runner' (S.F. Masterworks)
5.  Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The novel which became 'Blade Runner' (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
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  "for a while after first reading this i was convinced that the next jesus would be robotic."
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Atomised
6.  Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
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  "the pursuit to satiate the base desires is much more pleasurable than that of the quest for knowledge."
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The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
7.  The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
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  "quarantined, your home town becomes your whole world."
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The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room"
8.  The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
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  "hidden in a bin, the existential detective scrawls in his red notebook, watching no-one and everyone."
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The Trial (Vintage Classics)
9.  The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "hounded and snarling, proud. like a dog."
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The Remains of the Day
10.  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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  "a proper english love affair."
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The Old Man and the Sea
11.  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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  "life is an unceasing struggle, but there's reward to be found in hardship."
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The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1: No.1
12.  The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1: No.1 by Sir P G Wodehouse
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  "sweetness and light."
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Scott Pilgrim (Volume 1): Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life v. 1
13.  Scott Pilgrim (Volume 1): Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life v. 1 by Bryan Lee O'Malley
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  "comic about a lovelorn boy whose life is lived inside a computer game. i want to be scott pilgrim."
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Delta of Venus (Penguin Modern Classics)
14.  Delta of Venus (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anais Nin
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  "something to whisper in a lady's ear in a cold compartment on the overnight sleeper train."
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