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

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

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

  4. 7.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  5. 8.
    The Hundred and One Dalmatians
    by Dodie Smith

  6. 9.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  7. 11.
    The Leopard
    by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

  8. 12.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  9. 13.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  10. 14.
    The Golden Notebook
    by Doris May Lessing

  11. 15.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  12. 16.
    Funeral in Berlin (1960s A)
    by Len Deighton

  13. 17.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  14. 18.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

  15. 19.
    Towards the End of the Morning
    by Michael Frayn

  16. 20.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  17. 21.

  18. 22.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

  19. 23.
    Americana
    by Don DeLillo

  20. 24.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

  21. 25.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

  22. 26.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

  23. 27.
    Salem's Lot
    by Stephen King

  24. 28.
    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    by Tom Robbins

  25. 29.
    A Scanner Darkly
    by Philip K. Dick

  26. 30.
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    World According to Garp
    by John Irving

  27. 31.
    Smiley's People
    by John le Carre

  28. 32.
    Earthly Powers
    by Anthony Burgess

  29. 33.
    Lanark (Canongate Classic)
    by Alasdair Gray

  30. 34.
    The House of the Spirits: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende

  31. 35.
    Waterland
    by Graham Swift

  32. 36.
    Money
    by Martin Amis

  33. 37.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  34. 38.
    Tourist Season
    by Carl Hiaasen

  35. 39.
    More Die of Heartbreak (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  36. 40.
    Mother London
    by Michael Moorcock

  37. 41.
    Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

  38. 42.
    Get Shorty
    by Elmore Leonard

  39. 43.
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri

  40. 44.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

  41. 45.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

  42. 46.
    How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
    by James Kelman

  43. 47.
    Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
    by Philip Pullman

  44. 48.
    Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

  45. 49.
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    by J K Rowling

  46. 50.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

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