Guardian's "How did we miss these?"

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A list of "brilliant but underrated novels that deserve a second chance to shine," nominated by 50 authors and compiled by The Guardian/Observer.

  1. 1.
    Lanark: A Life in 4 Books (Harvest Book)
    by Alasdair Gray

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  2. 2.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  3. 3.
    Angel (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth Taylor

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    The Wind from Nowhere
    by J. G. Ballard

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  5. 5.
    The Obscene Bird of Night (Verba Mundi)
    by Jose Donoso

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    Midnight (Quartet Encounters)
    by Julian Green

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    New Perspective
    by K.Arnold Price

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  8. 8.
    The Reef (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  9. 9.
    Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel
    by Anita Shreve

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  10. 10.
    Belchamber
    by Howard Sturgis

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  11. 12.
    The Drinker
    by Hans Fallada

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  12. 13.
    Incandescence (Capuchin Classics)
    by Craig Nova

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  14. 15.
    Any Human Heart
    by William Boyd

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    Labyrinths / Path of Thunder (African Poets)
    by Christopher Okigbo

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  16. 17.
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    The Tortoise and the Hare
    by Elizabeth Jenkins

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    Incandesence
    by Craig Nova

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  18. 19.
    The Long Ships
    by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson

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  19. 20.
    As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original)
    by Maria McCann

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  20. 21.
    Season of Migration to the North
    by Tayeb Salih

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  21. 22.
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    The Cottagers: A Novel
    by Marshall N. Klimasewiski

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  22. 25.
    Life with a Star (Jewish Lives)
    by Jiri Weil

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  23. 26.
    Eden Eden Eden (Lords of the Solar Church 5)
    by Pierre Guyotat

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  24. 27.
    Why Did I Ever
    by Mary Robison

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  25. 28.
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books)
    by George V. Higgins

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  26. 29.
    Death and Nightingales
    by Eugene McCabe

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  27. 30.
    Complete John Silence Stories (Dover Horror Classics)
    by Algernon Blackwood

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  28. 31.
    Blaming (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth Taylor

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  29. 32.
    Riddley Walker
    by Russell Hoban

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  30. 33.
    Langrishe, Go Down (Irish Literature)
    by Aidan Higgins

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  31. 34.
    The Conclave (Capuchin Classics)
    by Michael Bracewell

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  32. 35.
    Blood Kin: A Novel
    by Ceridwen Dovey

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  33. 36.
    The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
    by Breece D'J Pancake

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  34. 38.
    The Unconsoled
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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    Pig and Pepper
    by David Footman

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  36. 40.
    The Gentleman of the Party
    by A.G. Street

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  37. 41.
    Bear v. Shark: The Novel
    by Chris Bachelder

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  38. 42.
    Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth Taylor

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  39. 43.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford

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  40. 44.
    Pereira Declares: A Testimony
    by Antonio Tabucchi

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  41. 45.
    No Pain Like This Body
    by Harold Sonny Ladoo

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  42. 46.
    Obasan
    by Joy Kogawa

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  43. 47.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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  44. 48.
    Portrait of a Young Man Drowning (Old School Books)
    by Charles Perry

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  45. 49.
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    The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
    by David Nobbs

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  46. 50.
    The Law of Dreams: A Novel
    by Peter Behrens

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