Waterstone Books's "100 Best 20th Century Books"

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Here’s the top 100 according to a survey carried out by "Waterstone’s Books":http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/home.do and Channel 4 Television, in the UK.

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  1. 51.
    DUNE
    by Frank Herbert

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  2. 52.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

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  3. 53.
    Perfume
    by Patrick Suskind

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  4. 54.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  5. 55.
    Gormenghast
    by Peake

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  6. 56.
    Cider with Rosie (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Laurie Lee

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  7. 57.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  8. 58.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  9. 59.
    Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics)
    by Vera Brittain

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  10. 60.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

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  11. 61.
    Brighton Rock
    by Graham Greene

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  12. 62.
    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
    by Robert Tressell

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  13. 63.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  14. 64.
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    Tales from the City
    by Armistead Maupin

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  15. 65.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

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  16. 66.
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    by Louis De Bernieres

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  17. 67.
    Slaughterhouse 5
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  19. 69.
    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster

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  20. 70.
    Lucky Jim
    by Kingsley Amis

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  21. 71.
    It
    by Stephen King

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  22. 72.
    The Power and the Glory
    by Graham Greene

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  23. 73.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King

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  24. 74.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  25. 75.
    Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
    by Roddy Doyle

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  26. 76.
    Matilda (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Roald Dahl

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  27. 77.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

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  28. 78.
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Hunter S. Thompson

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  29. 79.
    A Brief History of Time
    by Stephen Hawking

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  30. 80.
    Lady Chatterly's Lover
    by D.H.Lawrence

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  31. 81.
    James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl

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  32. 82.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

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  33. 83.
    Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course
    by Delia Smith

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  34. 84.
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    An Evil Cradling: The Five-Year Ordeal of a Hostage
    by Brian Keenan

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  35. 86.
    Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  36. 87.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  37. 88.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

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  38. 89.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  39. 90.
    Long Walk to Freedom
    by Nelson Mandela

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  40. 92.
    Jurassic Park
    by Michael Crichton

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  41. 93.
    Alexandria Quartet (Modern Classics)
    by Lawrence Durrell

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  42. 94.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  43. 95.
    High Fidelity: A Novel
    by Nick Hornby

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  44. 96.
    The van
    by Roddy Doyle

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  45. 97.
    The BFG (Puffin Fiction)
    by Roald Dahl

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  46. 98.
    Earthly Powers
    by Anthony Burgess

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  47. 99.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

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  48. 100.
    The Horse Whisperer
    by Nicholas Evans

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