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• The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
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• The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
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• The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence
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• Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
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• Herzog Saul Bellow
• One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre
• Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
• The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge
• The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
• A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul
• Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee
• Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
• Lanark Alasdair Gray
• The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
• The BFG Roald Dahl
• The Periodic Table Primo Levi
• Money Martin Amis
• An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
• Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera

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• Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie
• La Confidential James Ellroy
• Wise Children Angela Carter
• Atonement Ian McEwan
• Northern Lights Philip Pullman
• American Pastoral Philip Roth
• Austerlitz W. G. Sebald