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

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  1. First place
  2. Disgrace (1999) – JM Coetzee
  4. Second place
  5. Money (1984) – Martin Amis
  7. Joint third place
  8. Earthly Powers (1980) – Anthony Burgess
  9. Atonement (2001) – Ian McEwan
  10. The Blue Flower (1995) – Penelope Fitzgerald
  11. The Unconsoled (1995) – Kazuo Ishiguro
  12. Midnight's Children (1981) – Salman Rushdie
  14. Joint eighth place
  15. The Remains of the Day (1989) – Kazuo Ishiguro
  16. Amongst Women (1990) – John McGahern
  17. That They May Face the Rising Sun (2001) – John McGahern
  19. Other nominations
  20. Hawksmoor (1985) – Peter Ackroyd
  21. The Old Devils (1986) – Kingsley Amis
  22. Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995) – Kate Atkinson
  23. The Handmaid's Tale (1985) – Margaret Atwood
  24. An Awfully Big Adventure (1989) – Beryl Bainbridge
  25. The Wasp Factory (1984) – Iain Banks
  26. The Untouchable (1997) – John Banville
  27. The Regeneration Trilogy (1991-95) – Pat Barker
  28. Flaubert's Parrot (1984) – Julian Barnes
  29. A Long, Long Way (2005) – Sebastian Barry
  30. Ill Seen Ill Said (1981) – Samuel Beckett
  31. Possession: A Romance (1990) – AS Byatt
  32. True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) – Peter Carey
  33. A Perfect Spy (1986) – John le Carre
  34. Nights at the Circus (1984), Wise Children (1991) – Angela Carter
  35. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Age of Iron (1990), Masters of Petersburg (1994) – JM Coetzee
  36. The Barrytown Trilogy (1987-91) – Roddy Doyle
  37. Gwendolen (1989) – Buchi Emecheta
  38. Birdsong (1993) – Sebastian Faulks
  39. The Beginning of Spring (1988) – Penelope Fitzgerald
  40. To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (1980-89) – William Golding
  41. Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983), 1982, Janine (1984) – Alasdair Gray
  42. Transit of Venus (1981) – Shirley Hazzard
  43. Ridley Walker (1980) – Russell Hoban
  44. The Line of Beauty (2004) – Alan Hollinghurst
  45. Never Let Me Go (2005) – Kazuo Ishiguro
  46. A Disaffection (1989), How Late It Was, How Late (1994) – James Kelman
  47. The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) – Hanif Kureishi
  48. English Passengers (2004) – Matthew Kneale
  49. The Life of Pi (2002) – Yann Martel
  50. As Meat Loves Salt (2001) – Maria McCann
  51. The Comfort of Strangers (1981), Enduring Love (1997) – Ian McEwan
  52. No Great Mischief (1999) – Alistair MacLeod
  53. Fugitive Pieces (1996) – Anne Michaels
  54. The Restraint of Beasts (1998) – Magnus Mills
  55. A Fine Balance (1995) – Rohinton Mistry
  56. Mother London (1988) – Michael Moorcock
  57. The Enigma of Arrival (1987) – VS Naipaul
  58. After You'd Gone (2000) – Maggie O'Farrell
  59. His Dark Materials Trilogy (1995-2000) – Philip Pullman
  60. I Was Dora Suarez (1990) – Derek Raymond
  61. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2005) – JK Rowling
  62. The God of Small Things (1997) – Arundhati Roy
  63. A Suitable Boy (1993) – Vikram Seth
  64. Hotel World (2001) – Ali Smith
  65. A Far Cry From Kensington (1988) – Muriel Spark
  66. The White Hotel (1981) – DM Thomas
  67. Restoration (1989), Sacred Country (1992) – Rose Tremain
  68. Omeros (1990) – Derek Walcott
  69. 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.

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