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'The Times' 50 Greatest British Writers..

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1. Philip Larkin
One to read: The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (140 ratings) 8.4  
2. George Orwell
One to read: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (17 ratings) 7.4  
3. William Golding
One to read: To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (1980-89, which includes Rites of Passage)

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4. Ted Hughes
One to read: Crow (1972)

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5. Doris Lessing
One to read: The Golden Notebook (1961)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (181 ratings) 8.7  
6. J.R.R. Tolkien
One to read: The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (1 ratings) 7  
7. V.S. Naipaul
One to read: In a Free State (1971)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (3 ratings) 5.3  
8. Muriel Spark
One to read: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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9. Kingsley Amis
One to read: Take a Girl Like You (1960)

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10. Angela Carter
One to read: The Bloody Chamber (1979)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (60 ratings) 7.7  
11. C.S. Lewis
One to read: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (2 ratings) 9  
12. Iris Murdoch
One to read: The Sea, The Sea (1978)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (9 ratings) 6.8  
13. Salman Rushdie
One to read: Midnight’s Children (1981)

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14. Ian Fleming
One to read: Casino Royale (1953)

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15. Jan Morris
One to read: Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (68 ratings) 8.6  
16. Roald Dahl
One to read: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (15 ratings) 7.3  
17. Anthony Burgess
One to read: The Wanting Seed (1956)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (2 ratings) 9.5  
18. Mervyn Peake
Read: The Gormenghast trilogy (1946-59)

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19. Martin Amis
One to read: Money (1984)

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20. Anthony Powell
Read: The series A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75)

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21. Alan Sillitoe
One to read: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959)

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22. John Le Carre
One to read: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963)

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23. Penelope Fitzgerald
One to read: The Blue Flower (1995)

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24. Philippa Pearce
One to read: Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)

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25. Barbara Pym
One to read: Excellent Women (1952)

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26. Beryl Bainbridge
One to read: The Birthday Boys (1991)

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27. J. G. Ballard
One to read: Crash (1973)

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28. Alan Garner
One to read: The Owl Service (1967)

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29. Alasdair Gray
One to read: Lanark (1981)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (4 ratings) 9.5  
30. John Fowles
One to read: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)

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31. Derek Walcott
One to read: Omeros (1989)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (6 ratings) 7.5  
32. Kazuo Ishiguro
One to read: The Remains of the Day (1989)

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33. Anita Brookner
One to read: Hotel Du Lac (1984)

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34. A. S. Byatt
One to read: The Virgin in the Garden (1978)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (10 ratings) 8.4  
35. Ian McEwan
One to read: The Child in Time (1987)

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36. Geoffrey Hill
One to read: Mercian Hymns (1971)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (2 ratings) 9.5  
37. Hanif Kureishi
One to read: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)

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38. Iain Banks
One to read: The Wasp Factory (1984)

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39. George Mackay Brown
One to read: Magnus (1973)

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40. A. J. P. Taylor
One to read: The Trouble Makers (1957)

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41. Isaiah Berlin
One to read: Russian Thinkers — which includes the essay The Hedgehog and the Fox (1978)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (74 ratings) 7.8  
42. J. K. Rowling
One to read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (36 ratings) 8  
43. Philip Pullman
One to read: Northern Lights (1996)

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44. Julian Barnes
One to read: Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)

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45. Colin Thubron
One to read: In Siberia (1999)

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46. Bruce Chatwin
One to read: On the Black Hill (1982)

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47. Alice Oswald
One to read: Dart (2002)

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48. Benjamin Zephaniah
One to read: Propa Propaganda (1996)

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49. Rosemary Sutcliff
One to read: The Eagle of the Ninth (1954)

People who added this item   Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7.3  
50. Michael Moorcock
One to read: Mother London (1988)



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