| 1 | Neal Stephenson | Cryptonomicon | 
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| 2 | David Mitchell | Ghostwritten | 
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| 3 | Gunnar Kopperud | Longing | 
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| 4 | Michel Houellebecq | Atomised | 
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| 5 | William Gibson | All Tomorrow's Parties | 
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| 6 | Haruki Murakami | South of the Border, West of the Sun | 
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| 7 | Sarah May | The Nudist Colony | 
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| 8 | Ha Jin | Waiting | 
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| 9 | J M Coetzee | Disgrace | 
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| 10 | Carlos Fuentes | The Years with Laura Diaz | 
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| 11 | Rupert Thomson | The Book Of Revelation | 
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| 12 | J Robert Lennon | The Funnies | 
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| 13 | Iain Banks | The Business | 
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| 14 | Paul Auster | Timbuktu | 
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