Each work of literature listed here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word. These works have been handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, including Derek Attridge (world expert on James Joyce), Cedric Watts (renowned authority on Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene), Laura Marcus (noted Virginia Woolf expert), and David Mariott (poet and expert on African-American literature), among some twenty others. (Description from Amazon.com) This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists. Please do not remove or add titles that will change this list from how it appears in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die edited by Peter Boxall with an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. (found at: http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/)
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Saturday
by Ian Mcewan
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On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
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Slow Man
by J.M. Coetzee
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Adjunct: An Undigest
by Peter Manson
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The Sea
by John Banville
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The Red Queen
by Margaret Drabble
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The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
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The Master: A Novel
by Colm Toibin
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Vanishing Point: A Novel
by David Markson
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The Lambs of London
by Peter Ackroyd
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Dining on Stones
by Iain Sinclair
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
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Drop City
by T.C. Boyle
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The Colour: A Novel
by Rose Tremain
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Thursbitch
by Alan Garner
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The Light of Day
by Graham Swift
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What I Loved: A Novel
by Siri Hustvedt
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
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Islands
by Dan Sleigh
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Elizabeth Costello
by J. M. Coetzee
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London Orbital
by Iain Sinclair
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Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
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The Double
by Jose Saramago
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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Unless: A Novel
by Carol Shields
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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
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The Story of Lucy Gault
by William Trevor
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That They May Face the Rising Sun
by John McGahern
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In the Forest: A Novel
by Edna O'Brien
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Shroud
by John Banville
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Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II
by J. M. Coetzee
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Dead Air
by Iain Banks
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Nowhere Man
by Aleksandar Hemon
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The Book of Illusions: A Novel
by Paul Auster
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Gabriel's Gift: A Novel
by Hanif Kureishi
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Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Winfried Georg Sebald
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Platform
by Michel Houellebecq
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Schooling
by Heather Mcgowan
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Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
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Don't Move
by Margaret Mazzantini
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The Body Artist: A Novel
by Don DeLillo
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Fury: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Salman Rushdie
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At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel
by Jamie O'Neill
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Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
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The Feast of the Goat: A Novel
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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