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 (Harvest Book)
    by Alasdair Gray
  2. 2.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor
  3. 3.
    Angel (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth Taylor
  4. 4.
    ?
    The Wind from Nowhere
    by J. G. Ballard
  5. 5.
    The Obscene Bird of Night (Verba Mundi)
    by Jose Donoso
  6. 6.
    ?
    Midnight (Quartet Encounters)
    by Julian Green
  7. 7.
    ?
    New Perspective
    by K.Arnold Price
  8. 8.
    The Reef (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  9. 9.
    Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel
    by Anita Shreve
  10. 10.
    Belchamber (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Howard Sturgis
  12. 12.
    The Drinker
    by Hans Fallada
  13. 13.
    Incandescence (Capuchin Classics)
    by Craig Nova
  14. 14.
  15. 15.
    Any Human Heart
    by William Boyd
  16. 16.
    ?
    Labyrinths / Path of Thunder (African Poets)
    by Christopher Okigbo
  17. 17.
    The Tortoise and the Hare (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth Jenkins
  18. 18.
    ?
    Incandesence
    by Craig Nova
  19. 19.
    Long Ships
    by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
  20. 20.
    As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original)
    by Maria McCann
  22. 22.
    ?
    The Cottagers: A Novel
    by Marshall N. Klimasewiski
  25. 25.
    Life with a Star (Jewish Lives)
    by Jiri Weil
  26. 26.
    Eden Eden Eden (Lords of the Solar Church 5) (v. 5)
    by Pierre Guyotat
  27. 27.
    Why Did I Ever
    by Mary Robison
  28. 28.
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books)
    by George V. Higgins
  29. 29.
    Death and Nightingales
    by Eugene McCabe
  30. 30.
    Complete John Silence Stories (Dover Horror Classics)
    by Algernon Blackwood
  31. 31.
    Blaming (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth Taylor
  32. 32.
    Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
    by Russell Hoban
  33. 33.
    Langrishe, Go Down (Irish Literature)
    by Aidan Higgins
  34. 34.
    The Conclave (Capuchin Classics)
    by Michael Bracewell
  35. 35.
    Blood Kin: A Novel
    by Ceridwen Dovey
  36. 36.
    The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
    by Breece D'J Pancake
  38. 38.
    The Unconsoled
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
  39. 39.
    ?
    Pig and Pepper
    by David Footman
  40. 40.
    The Gentleman of the Party
    by A.G. Street
  41. 41.
    Bear v. Shark: The Novel
    by Chris Bachelder
  42. 42.
    Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth Taylor
  43. 43.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford
  44. 44.
    Pereira Declares: A Testimony
    by Antonio Tabucchi
  45. 45.
    No Pain Like This Body
    by Harold Sonny Ladoo
  46. 46.
    Obasan
    by Joy Kogawa
  47. 47.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun
  48. 48.
    Portrait of a Young Man Drowning (Old School Books)
    by Charles Perry
  49. 49.
    ?
    The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
    by David Nobbs
  50. 50.
    The Law of Dreams: A Novel
    by Peter Behrens
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