The Observer lists their Top fiction books of the past 25 years.
Their Top 10 are;
Disgrace (1999)
JM Coetzee
Money (1984)
Martin Amis
Earthly Powers (1980)
Anthony Burgess
Atonement (2001)
Ian McEwan
The Blue Flower (1995)
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Unconsoled (1995)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Midnight's Children (1981)
Salman Rushdie
The Remains of the Day (1989)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Amongst Women (1990)
John McGahern
That They May Face the Rising Sun (2001)
John McGahern
My Top 10 would be;
Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Atonement - Ian McKewan
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Attwood
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Cocaine Nights/Super Cannes - J.G. Ballard
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