Books I've read of "Guardian's best novels from the past 25 years"

Submitted by ukaunz on Thu, 10/12/2006 - 08:26
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  1. Disgrace – JM Coetzee
  2. Money – Martin Amis
  3. Earthly Powers – Anthony Burgess
  4. Atonement – Ian McEwan
  5. The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald
  6. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
  7. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
  8. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  9. Amongst Women – John McGahern
  10. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
  11. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
  12. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
  13. Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson
  14. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
  15. An Awfully Big Adventure – Beryl Bainbridge
  16. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  17. The Untouchable – John Banville
  18. The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker
  19. Flaubert's Parrot – Julian Barnes
  20. A Long, Long Way – Sebastian Barry
  21. Ill Seen Ill Said – Samuel Beckett
  22. Possession: A Romance – AS Byatt
  23. True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
  24. A Perfect Spy – John le Carre
  25. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
  26. Wise Children – Angela Carter
  27. Waiting for the Barbarians – JM Coetzee
  28. Age of Iron – JM Coetzee
  29. Masters of Petersburg – JM Coetzee
  30. The Barrytown Trilogy – Roddy Doyle
  31. Gwendolen – Buchi Emecheta
  32. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
  33. The Beginning of Spring – Penelope Fitzgerald
  34. To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy – William Golding
  35. Unlikely Stories, Mostly – Alasdair Gray
  36. 1982, Janine – Alasdair Gray
  37. Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
  38. Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban
  39. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
  40. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  41. A Disaffection – James Kelman
  42. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
  43. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
  44. English Passengers – Matthew Kneale
  45. The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  46. As Meat Loves Salt – Maria McCann
  47. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
  48. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
  49. No Great Mischief – Alistair MacLeod
  50. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
  51. The Restraint of Beasts – Magnus Mills
  52. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  53. Mother London – Michael Moorcock
  54. The Enigma of Arrival – VS Naipaul
  55. After You'd Gone – Maggie O'Farrell
  56. His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
  57. I Was Dora Suarez – Derek Raymond
  58. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – JK Rowling
  59. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  60. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  61. Hotel World – Ali Smith
  62. A Far Cry From Kensington – Muriel Spark
  63. The White Hotel – DM Thomas
  64. Restoration – Rose Tremain
  65. Sacred Country – Rose Tremain
  66. Omeros – Derek Walcott
  67. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson