Telegraph's "100 Best Books Since 1982"

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The 100 best books of the past 25 years. Some bad picks, but mostly good ones.

In reverse order of publication (newest first.)

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  1. 51.
    A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Rohinton Mistry

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  2. 52.
    Snow Falling on Cedars
    by David Guterson

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  3. 54.
    The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
    by Haruki Murakami

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  4. 55.
    A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Vikram Seth

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  5. 56.
    What a Carve Up! (Essential.penguin)
    by Jonathan Coe

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  6. 57.
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Modern Library)
    by John Berendt

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  7. 58.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks

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  8. 59.
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    by Louis de Bernieres

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  9. 60.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

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  10. 61.
    The Shipping News : A Novel
    by Annie Proulx

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  11. 62.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

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  12. 63.
    Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
    by Jung Chang

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  13. 64.
    The Crow Road
    by Iain Banks

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  14. 65.
    Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther)
    by Peter Hoeg

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  15. 66.
    All The Pretty Horses, Volume One, The Border Trilogy
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  16. 67.
    Fatherland
    by Robert Harris

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  17. 68.
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

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  18. 69.
    Fever Pitch
    by Nick Hornby

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  19. 70.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

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  20. 71.
    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker

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  21. 72.
    L.A. Confidential
    by James Ellroy

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  22. 73.
    Possession
    by Antonia S. Byatt

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  23. 74.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  24. 75.
    The Pillars of the Earth
    by Ken Follett

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  25. 76.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  26. 77.
    The Silence of the Lambs
    by Thomas Harris

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  27. 78.
    The Alchemist (Plus)
    by Paulo Coelho

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  28. 79.
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    A Brief History of Time
    by Stephen Hawking

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  29. 80.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

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  30. 81.
    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami

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  31. 82.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

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  32. 83.
    Knots and Crosses (An Inspector Rebus Novel)
    by Ian Rankin

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  33. 84.
    Watchmen (Absolute Edition)
    by Alan Moore

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  34. 85.
    Perfume (MTI)
    by Patrick Suskind

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  35. 86.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

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  36. 88.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  37. 89.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  38. 90.
    Hawksmoor
    by Peter Ackroyd

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  39. 91.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera

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  40. 92.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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  41. 93.
    The Wasp Factory
    by Iain Banks

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  42. 94.
    Money
    by Martin Amis

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  43. 96.
    The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
    by Susan Hill

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  44. 97.
    The Colour of Magic (Discworld Novels)
    by Terry Pratchett

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  45. 98.
    BFG
    by Roald Dahl

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  46. 99.
    Magician (Riftwar Saga)
    by Raymond E. Feist

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  47. 100.

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