1984
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Orwell
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20000 streets under the sky
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Patrick Hamilton
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Marlon James
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A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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A Fine Balance
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Rohinton Mistry
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Betty Smith
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Erich Maria Remarque
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All Things Betray Thee
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Gwyn Thomas
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Alone in Berlin
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Hans Fallada
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An Inspector calls
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Priestley
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Another Country
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James Baldwin
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Barbary Shore
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Norman Mailer
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Barry town Trilogy
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Roddy Doyle
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Berger's Daughter
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Nadine Gordimer
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Bidden to the Feast
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Jack Jones
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Bone
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Daniel Woodrell-Winters
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Border Country
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Raymond Williams
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Candide
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Voltaire
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Carpentaria
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Alexis Wright
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Catch-22
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Heller
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Children of the Arbat
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Anatoly Rybakov
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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
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B.S. Johnson
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Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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Cities of Salt
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Abdelrahman Munif
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Cloudstreet
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Tim Winton
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Complicity
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Iain Banks
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Comrade Tulayev
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Serge
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Cornelieus Quartet
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Michael Moorcock
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Death Ship
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Traven
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Doctor Zhivago
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Boris Pasternak
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Down and out In Paris and London
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Orwell
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Dubious Battle
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John Steinbeck
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk
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Flatland
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Edwin A Abbott
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Fontamara
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Ignazio Silone
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Germinal
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Émile Zola
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Gods Bits Of Wood
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Ousmane Sembene
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Hawk by Yasir kemal
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Yasir kemal
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad
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Highrise
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JG Ballard
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History of Mr Polly
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HG Wells
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Homage to Catalonia
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Orwell
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Walter Rodney
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How to fly with broken wings
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Jane Elson
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IN Jail with Nazim Hikmet
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Orhan Kemal
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In the Fog of A Season's End
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Alex La Guma
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In the Thirties
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Edward Upward
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Intellectual Life of the Working Class
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Jonathon Rose
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Iron City
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Lloyd Brown
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Iron Heel
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Jack London
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Jew Boy
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Simon Blumenfeld
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Jews Without Money
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Michael Gold
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Jude the Obscure
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Hardy
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Kestrel for a Knave
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Barry Hines
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Kiddar's Luck
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Jack Common
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King Lear
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Shakespeare
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La Condition humaine
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Andre Malraux
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Lanark
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Alasdair Gray
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Les Miserable
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Victor Hugo
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Leviathan
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Paul Auster
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Life and Fate
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Vasily Grossman
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lord of the flies
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William Golding
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Love of Worker Bees
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Alexandra Kollontai
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Love on the Dole
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Walter Greenwood
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Mars Trilogy
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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Mary Barton
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Men in the Sun
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Ghassan Kanafani
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Middlemarch
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Eliot
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Midnight in the Century
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Serge
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Mother Night
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Nausea
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Sartre
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Nervous Conditions
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Tsitsi Dangarembga
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News from nowhere
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William Morris
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No Home But the Struggle
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Edward Upward
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Number 11
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Jonathan Coe
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Orientalism
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Edward Said
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People of the abyss
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Jack London
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Perdition
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Jim Allen
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Petals of Blood
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Piano Player
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Pig Earth
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Berger
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Portrait of the Artist
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Joyce
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Quiet Flows the Don
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
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Red/Green/Blue Mars Trilogy
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Stanley Robinson
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Regeneration Trilogy
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Pat Barker
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Rivethead
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Ben Hamper
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Road to Wigan Pier
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Orwell
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Robert Kelvin Trilogy
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David Mercer
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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Sillitoe
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Scifi
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China Mieville
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Scots Quair trilogy
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Slaughterhouse-5
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Kurt Vonnegut
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South Riding
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Winifred Holtby
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Strumpet City
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Plunkett
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Sunset Song
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Surface Detail
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Iain Banks
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Ten Days that Shook The World
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John Reed
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Tess of the D'Urbevilles
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Hardy
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The Adventurers
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Margot Heinemann
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The Black Sheep
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Balzac
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The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and other
stories
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Hama Tuma
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The Catastrophist
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Ronan Bennett
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The Classic Slum
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Robert Roberts
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The Dark Side of Love
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Rafik Schami
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The Death Ship
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B Traven
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The Devil on the Cross
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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The Dispossessed
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Ursula Le Guin
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The Earth Beneath
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Harold Heslop
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The Emigrants
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Wilhelm Moberg
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The Flamethrowers
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Rachel Kushner
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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Georgio Bassani
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The Goatibex Constellation
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Pavel Iskander
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The God of Small Things
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Roy
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The Golden Notebook
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Doris Lessing
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The Good Soldier Svejk
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Hasek
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The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
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Carson McCullers
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The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair
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The King of a Rainy Country
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Brigid Brophy
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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private
Ivan Chonkin
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Vladimir Voinovitch
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The Life and Times of Michael K
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Coetzee
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The Life of the Automobile
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Ilya Ehrenburg
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The Moonstone
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Wilkie Collins
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The Mother
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Gorky
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the narrow road to the deep north
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Richard Flanagan
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The Player of Games
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Iain M Banks
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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Tressell
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The rape of the fair country
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Alexander Cordell
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The Redundancy of Courage
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Timothy Mo
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Orwell
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The Rotten Elements
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Edward Upward
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The Royal Game
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Stefan Zweig
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The Shape of a Pocket
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Berger
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The Space Merchants
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Pohl and Kornbluth
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The Star Fraction
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Ken McLeod
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The Stars Look Down
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A. J. Cronin
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The Tempest
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Shakespeare
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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B Traven
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The Trial and-or short stories
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Franz Kafka
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The Tulip Touch
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Anne Fine
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The Water Babies
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Charles Kingsley
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The White Bird Passes
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Jessie Kesson
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The Wolf Wilder
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Katherine Rundell
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The years of rice and salt
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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Their Labour's Trilogy
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Berger
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This Sporting Life
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David Storey
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To kill a mocking bird
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Harper Lee
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Trash
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Andy Mulligan
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Under Fire
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Herii Barbusse
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Under The Frog
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Tibor Fischer
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Union Street
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Pat Barker
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USA
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Dos Passos
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Voyage from yesteryear
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James p hogan
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We
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We Live
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Lewis Jones
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We Want Everything
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Nanni Balestrini
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What a Carve Up
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Jonathan Coe
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Wildwood
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Jan Needle
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Woman on the Edge of Time
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Marge Piercey
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Alexander Baron
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No title mentioned
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Arnold Wesker
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No title mentioned
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Barbara Kingsolver
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No title mentioned
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Bernard Kops
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No title mentioned
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Bryony Lavery
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No title mentioned
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Caryl Churchill
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No title mentioned
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Charles Dickens
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No title mentioned
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China Mieville
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No title mentioned
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Dashiel Hammet
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No title mentioned
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David Hare
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No title mentioned
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Edward Bond
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No title mentioned
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George Orwell
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No title mentioned
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Ghassan Kanafani
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No title mentioned
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Henning Mankell
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No title mentioned
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Howard Brenton
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No title mentioned
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Ian M Banks
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No title mentioned
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James Kelman
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No title mentioned
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Jean Claude Izzo
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No title mentioned
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Jim Allen
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No title mentioned
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John McGrath
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No title mentioned
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Jose Saramago
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No title mentioned
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Margaret Atwood
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No title mentioned
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Mrs Gaskill
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Nikos Kazantzakis
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No title mentioned
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Octavia Butler
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No title mentioned
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Robert Blincoe
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No title mentioned
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Sara Paretsky
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No title mentioned
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Simin Daneshvar
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No title mentioned
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Trevor Griffiths
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Walter Mosley
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A place where I'll post up some thoughts and ideas - especially on literature in education, children's literature in general, poetry, reading, writing, teaching and thoughts on current affairs.
Saturday, 7 January 2017
Suggestions of books to read for those of a left-wing outlook
Here is a list of books (fiction) that people who 'follow' me on Facebook have suggested would be a good read for people of leftwing disposition!