The Times' The best 60 books of the past 60 years

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The Times team has compiled its favourites to celebrate the Cheltenham Literary Festival anniversary. Do you agree?

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  1. 1.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  2. 3.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  3. 4.
    Pigs Have Wings
    by P. G. Wodehouse

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  4. 5.
    Casino Royale (James Bond Novels)
    by Ian Fleming

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  5. 7.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  6. 8.
    The Hundred and One Dalmatians
    by Dodie Smith

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  7. 9.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  9. 11.
    The Leopard
    by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

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  10. 12.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  11. 13.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  12. 14.
    The Golden Notebook
    by Doris May Lessing

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  13. 15.
    Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  14. 16.
    Funeral in Berlin (1960s A)
    by Len Deighton

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  15. 17.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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  16. 18.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

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  17. 19.
    Towards the End of the Morning
    by Michael Frayn

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  18. 20.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  19. 21.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

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  20. 22.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

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  21. 23.
    Americana
    by Don DeLillo

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  22. 24.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  23. 25.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

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  24. 26.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

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  25. 27.
    Salem's Lot
    by Stephen King

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  26. 28.
    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    by Tom Robbins

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    A Scanner Darkly (Vintage)
    by Philip K. Dick

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  28. 30.
    The World According to Garp
    by John Irving

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  29. 31.
    Smiley's People
    by John le Carre

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  30. 32.
    Earthly Powers
    by Anthony Burgess

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  31. 33.
    Lanark (Canongate Classics)
    by Alasdair Gray

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  32. 34.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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  33. 35.
    Waterland
    by Graham Swift

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  34. 36.
    Money
    by Martin Amis

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  35. 37.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  36. 38.
    Tourist Season
    by Carl Hiaasen

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  37. 39.
    More Die of Heartbreak (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  38. 40.
    Mother London
    by Michael Moorcock

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  39. 41.
    Sexing the Cherry
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  40. 42.
    Get Shorty
    by Elmore Leonard

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  41. 43.
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri

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  42. 44.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

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  43. 45.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

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  44. 46.
    How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
    by James Kelman

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  45. 47.
    Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
    by Philip Pullman

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  46. 48.
    Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

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  47. 49.
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    by J K Rowling

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  48. 50.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

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