| 1 | William T. Vollmann | Fathers and Crows | 
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| 2 | Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses | 
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| 3 | Neal Stephenson | Snow Crash | 
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| 4 | Iain Banks | The Crow Road | 
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| 5 | Louis de Bernieres | The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman | 
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| 6 | Paul Auster | Leviathan | 
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| 7 | Jeff Torrington | Swing Hammer Swing! | 
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| 8 | Tibor Fischer | Under the Frog | 
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| 9 | Victor Pelevin | Omon Ra | 
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| 10 | Ian McEwan | Black Dogs | 
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| 11 | Apostolos Doxiadis | Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture | 
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