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Edge of Reason
Riddley WalkerRiddley Walker by Russell Hoban
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Truelly deserving of the description "genius"
Mysteries (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)Mysteries (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Knut Hamsun
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Greatest work of a key modern figure
The Clay Machine GunThe Clay Machine Gun by Viktor Pelevin
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Literature of the Void
The Idiot (Vintage Classics)The Idiot (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A Christlike figure enters 19th century Russian society tottering on the brink of dissolution
Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics)Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
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One of the great novels, the beginning of the modern age
Eyeless in Gaza (Vintage Classic)Eyeless in Gaza (Vintage Classic) by Aldous Huxley
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Greatest novel by the English polymath
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Great Books in Philosophy)Thus Spake Zarathustra (Great Books in Philosophy) by Friedrich Nietzsche
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A work that spans the end of an old age and the beginning of a new
The Glass Bead Game (Vintage classics)The Glass Bead Game (Vintage classics) by Hermann Hesse
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A book of quiet richness
The Beginnings of Christianity: Essene Mystery, Gnostic Revelation and the Christian VisionThe Beginnings of Christianity: Essene Mystery, Gnostic Revelation and the Christian Vision by Andrew J. Welburn
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Fascinating book of the evolution of man's sense of the divine
The Perennial Philosophy (Perennial Classics)The Perennial Philosophy (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley
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One of the great anthologies by one of the great minds
The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov by F.M. Dostoevsky
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Okay more Dostoevsky but who can argue with this magnificent work
Cortes and Montezuma (A New Directions classic)Cortes and Montezuma (A New Directions classic) by M Collis
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Epic and bizarre story where fact is proven to be far far stranger than fiction