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10 brilliant novels with one extra for luck
Still Life with WoodpeckerStill Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.15
Daft, funny, romantic and more readable than his other books
Infinite JestInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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Humongous, brilliant, extremely funny and very sad
Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics)Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
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My favourite novel of the 20th century - the whole of Western culture as observed by one mild-mannered ad salesman, over one day in Dublin in 1904
Schindler's Ark (Coronet Books)Schindler's Ark (Coronet Books) by Thomas Keneally
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It's kind of a novel...
War and Peace (Penguin Red Classics)War and Peace (Penguin Red Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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The greatest airport novel ever, huge, thrilling and full of life
The Lime Works (Phoenix fiction series)The Lime Works (Phoenix fiction series) by Bernhard
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A man shoots his wife and nobody can agree about how or why or even exactly when...intense and mind-twisting
The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004)The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Kind of ridiculous but also kind of wonderful
The Code of the Woosters (Penguin Modern Classics)The Code of the Woosters (Penguin Modern Classics) by P.G. Wodehouse
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If there's a more perfect comic novel, I want to know about it
Blood and Guts in High SchoolBlood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
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Wildly experimental, nearly unreadable, still the only true literary equivalent of hardcore punk
Gravity's RainbowGravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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The other greatest novel in English of the 20th century - dense and complex and tragic and goofy
White Noise (Picador Books)White Noise (Picador Books) by Don DeLillo
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Oh yeah, and the other greatest - hauntingly spare, weirdly normal, really funny