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Books to read before you die

all these books are from 2000 or later. there are several other books on the list. i decided to list only fairly recent 1’s.

(found at: http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.32109/Books)

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1. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
2. Saturday
by Ian Mcewan
  
3.
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 On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
  
4.
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 Slow Man
by J.M. Coetzee
  
5.
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 Adjunct: An Undigest
by Peter Manson
  
6.
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 the sea
by John Banville
  
7. The Red Queen
by Margaret Drabble
  
8. The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
  
9.
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 The Master
by Colm Tóbín
  
10.
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 Vanishing Point
by David Markson
  
11.
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 the lambs of london by Peter Ackroyd  
12.
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 Dining On Stones
by Iain Sinclair
  
13. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
  
14.
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 Drop City by T Coraghessan Boyle  
15. The Colour: A Novel
by Rose Tremain
  
16.
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 Thursbitch
by Alan Garner
  
17. The Light of Day: A Novel
by Graham Swift
  
18.
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 What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
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19.
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 The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime
by Mark Haddon
  
20.
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 Islands
by Dan Sleigh
  
21. Elizabeth Costello
by J. M. Coetzee
  
22. London Orbital
by Iain Sinclair
  
23. Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
  
24.
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 Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
  
25.
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 The Double
by Jose Saramago
  
26.
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 everything is illuminated
by jonathan safran foer
  
27. Unless: A Novel
by Carol Shields
  
28.
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 Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
  
29.
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 the story of lucy gault by William Trevor  
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun
by John McGahern
  
31.
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 In the Forest
by Edna O’Brien
  
32. Shroud
by John Banville
  
33.
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 middlesex by jeffrey eugenides  
34.
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 Youth
by J. M. Coetzee
  
35.
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 dead air by Iain Banks  
36. Nowhere Man
by Aleksandar Hemon
  
37. The Book of Illusions: A Novel  
38. Gabriel's Gift
by Hanif Kureishi
  
39.
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 AUSTERLITZ. Translated by Anthea Bell
by W. G. Sebald
  
40. Platform
by Michel Houellebecq
  
41.
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 Schooling
by Heather McGowan
  
42. Atonement
by Ian McEwan
  
43.
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 The Corrections
by Jonathon Franzen
  
44. Don't Move
by Margaret Mazzantini
  
45.
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 The Body Artist by Don DeLillo  
46.
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 Fury  
47. At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel
by Jamie O'Neill
  
48.
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 Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
  
49. Life of Pi: Student Edition
by Yann Martel
  
50.
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 The Feast of Goat by Mario Vargos Llosa  
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Created by mark on Nov 14, 2008.