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10 Great Literary Novels of the Noughties
The Human StainThe Human Stain by Philip Roth
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A disgraced professor harbours a staggering secret.
AusterlitzAusterlitz by W. G. Sebald
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Sebald's masterpiece. A boy flees from the Nazis in 1939, but finds the psychological legacy of their atrocities inescapable.
Life of PiLife of Pi by Yann Martel
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Weird, wonderful, ferociously clever. A boy in a boat with a tiger.
The Plot Against AmericaThe Plot Against America by Philip Roth
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Roth is at his compelling and furious best in this counterfactual history.
GileadGilead by Marilynne Robinson
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Beautiful and uplifting story of a dying Iowa pastor. 24 years in the making.
SnowSnow by Orhan Pamuk
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Darkly evocative tale of doomed love and political strife in snowbound Kars.
Never Let Me GoNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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An emotionally devastating work of science fiction.
Arthur and GeorgeArthur and George by Julian Barnes
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Immaculate fictionalised double-biography of novelist Arthur Conan Doyle and his unlikely Parsee friend, George Edalji.
The RoadThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
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A father and son after the apocalypse. They carry on, despite everything. A bleak, poetic masterpiece.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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A vibrant, tragicomic saga of Dominican immigrants in the US.