"Guardian's best novels from the past 25 years"

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  • First place
  • Disgrace (1999) – JM Coetzee
  • Second place
  • Money (1984) – Martin Amis
  • Joint third place
  • 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
  • Joint eighth place
  • The Remains of the Day (1989) – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Amongst Women (1990) – John McGahern
  • That They May Face the Rising Sun (2001) – John McGahern
  • Other nominations
  • Hawksmoor (1985) – Peter Ackroyd
  • The Old Devils (1986) – Kingsley Amis
  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995) – Kate Atkinson
  • The Handmaid's Tale (1985) – Margaret Atwood
  • An Awfully Big Adventure (1989) – Beryl Bainbridge
  • The Wasp Factory (1984) – Iain Banks
  • The Untouchable (1997) – John Banville
  • The Regeneration Trilogy (1991-95) – Pat Barker
  • Flaubert's Parrot (1984) – Julian Barnes
  • A Long, Long Way (2005) – Sebastian Barry
  • Ill Seen Ill Said (1981) – Samuel Beckett
  • Possession: A Romance (1990) – AS Byatt
  • True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) – Peter Carey
  • A Perfect Spy (1986) – John le Carre
  • Nights at the Circus (1984), Wise Children (1991) – Angela Carter
  • Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Age of Iron (1990), Masters of Petersburg (1994) – JM Coetzee
  • The Barrytown Trilogy (1987-91) – Roddy Doyle
  • Gwendolen (1989) – Buchi Emecheta
  • Birdsong (1993) – Sebastian Faulks
  • The Beginning of Spring (1988) – Penelope Fitzgerald
  • To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (1980-89) – William Golding
  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983), 1982, Janine (1984) – Alasdair Gray
  • Transit of Venus (1981) – Shirley Hazzard
  • Ridley Walker (1980) – Russell Hoban
  • The Line of Beauty (2004) – Alan Hollinghurst
  • Never Let Me Go (2005) – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • A Disaffection (1989), How Late It Was, How Late (1994) – James Kelman
  • The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) – Hanif Kureishi
  • English Passengers (2004) – Matthew Kneale
  • The Life of Pi (2002) – Yann Martel
  • As Meat Loves Salt (2001) – Maria McCann
  • The Comfort of Strangers (1981), Enduring Love (1997) – Ian McEwan
  • No Great Mischief (1999) – Alistair MacLeod
  • Fugitive Pieces (1996) – Anne Michaels
  • The Restraint of Beasts (1998) – Magnus Mills
  • A Fine Balance (1995) – Rohinton Mistry
  • Mother London (1988) – Michael Moorcock
  • The Enigma of Arrival (1987) – VS Naipaul
  • After You'd Gone (2000) – Maggie O'Farrell
  • His Dark Materials Trilogy (1995-2000) – Philip Pullman
  • I Was Dora Suarez (1990) – Derek Raymond
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2005) – JK Rowling
  • The God of Small Things (1997) – Arundhati Roy
  • A Suitable Boy (1993) – Vikram Seth
  • Hotel World (2001) – Ali Smith
  • A Far Cry From Kensington (1988) – Muriel Spark
  • The White Hotel (1981) – DM Thomas
  • Restoration (1989), Sacred Country (1992) – Rose Tremain
  • Omeros (1990) – Derek Walcott
  • The Passion (1987) – Jeanette Winterson
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From the Guardian website:

What's the best novel in the past 25 years?

A recent poll in the New York Times named Toni Morrison's Beloved as the greatest work of American fiction in the past 25 years. But what about over here? On the eve of this year's Booker Prize, we asked 150 literary luminaries to vote for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005.