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

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

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

  7. 9.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  8. 11.
    The Leopard
    by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

  9. 12.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  10. 13.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  11. 14.
    The Golden Notebook
    by Doris May Lessing

  12. 15.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  13. 16.
    Funeral in Berlin (1960s A)
    by Len Deighton

  14. 17.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  15. 18.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

  16. 19.
    Towards the End of the Morning
    by Michael Frayn

  17. 20.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  18. 21.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

  19. 22.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

  20. 23.
    Americana
    by Don DeLillo

  21. 24.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

  22. 25.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

  23. 26.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

  24. 27.
    Salem's Lot
    by Stephen King

  25. 28.
    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    by Tom Robbins

  26. 29.
    A Scanner Darkly
    by Philip K. Dick

  27. 30.
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    World According to Garp
    by John Irving

  28. 31.
    Smiley's People
    by John le Carre

  29. 32.
    Earthly Powers
    by Anthony Burgess

  30. 33.
    Lanark (Canongate Classic)
    by Alasdair Gray

  31. 34.
    The House of the Spirits: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende

  32. 35.
    Waterland
    by Graham Swift

  33. 36.
    Money
    by Martin Amis

  34. 37.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  35. 38.
    Tourist Season
    by Carl Hiaasen

  36. 39.
    More Die of Heartbreak (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  37. 40.
    Mother London
    by Michael Moorcock

  38. 41.
    Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

  39. 42.
    Get Shorty
    by Elmore Leonard

  40. 43.
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri

  41. 44.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

  42. 45.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

  43. 46.
    How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
    by James Kelman

  44. 47.
    Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
    by Philip Pullman

  45. 48.
    Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

  46. 49.
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    by J K Rowling

  47. 50.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

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