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Telegraph's "100 Best Books Since 1982"

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

In reverse order of publication (newest first.)

(found at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/campaigns/bestbooks/bestbooks_list.xml)

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1. The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
  
2. The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
  
3. The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
  
4. Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
  
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
  
6. Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
  
7. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
by Susanna Clarke
  
8. Small Island: A Novel
by Andrea Levy
  
9. The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
  
10. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
  
11. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
  
12. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
  
13. A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
  
14. Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?: A Novel
by Zoe Heller
  
15. Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
  
16. The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
  
17. Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
  
18.
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 Middlesex  
19. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
by Jon McGregor
  
20. The Crimson Petal and the White
by Michel Faber
  
21. The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  
22. Life of Pi  
23. Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
  
24. Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1)
by Eoin Colfer
  
25. Carter Beats the Devil
by Glen Gold
  
26. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
  
27. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella
  
28. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
  
29. White Teeth: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
  
30. The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
  
31. Stalingrad
by Anthony Beevor
  
32. The Gruffalo
by Julia Donaldson
  
33. Chocolat
by Joanne Harris
  
34. Disgrace (Essential Edition): (Penguin Essential Edition) (Penguin Essential Editions)
by J. M. Coetzee
  
35. Holes
by Louis Sachar
  
36. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
37. Girlfriend in a Coma
by Douglas Coupland
  
38. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by J.K. Rowling
  
39. Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
  
40.
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 God Of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
  
41. Enduring Love
by Ian McEwan
  
42. Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
  
43. An Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel
by Iain Pears
  
44.
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 Bridget Jones's Diary - A Novel
by Helen Fielding
  
45.
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 The Beach
by Alex Garland
  
46. Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
  
47.
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 Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
by Philip Pullman
  
48. Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
  
49. High Fidelity: A Novel
by Nick Hornby
  
50. Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
  
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