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A Listmania! list by "kwelling18"
 
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Vintage classics)
1.  Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Vintage classics) by Patrick Hamilton
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  "A portrayal of normallly invisible lives in an around a london pub."
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Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Modern Classics)
2.  Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
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  "Follow the ironic and surreal trail of Sasha Jansen's thought from Paris cafe to cafe."
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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  "Gordon comstock: hero to the scared bored and lonely who hate bourgeois plants. He does learn to love Suburbia in the end though."
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Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
4.  Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joyce James
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  "We are shown the grey face of the hibernian metropolis through its various inhabitants; there does seem to be hope though, in the beautiful last story 'The Dead'."
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics)
5.  A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
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  "Ignatius J Reilly, possibly the most unattractive fictional hero ever, takes on the lowlife of New Orleans with hilarious results."
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Invisible Man (Penguin Modern Classics)
6.  Invisible Man (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ralph Ellison
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  "Powerful novel which grapples with the real experience of being 'invisible' as a black person in forties America.  The narratve moves from the South up to Harlem."
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