| 1 | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | 
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| 2 | Flannery O'Connor | The Violent Bear It Away | 
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| 3 | John Barth | The Sot-Weed Factor | 
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| 4 | Kingsley Amis | Take a Girl Like You | 
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| 5 | Anthony Powell | Casanova's Chinese Restaurant | 
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| 6 | Walter Miller | A Canticle for Leibowitz | 
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| 7 | Muriel Spark | The Ballad of Peckham Rye | 
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