| 1 | David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest | 
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| 2 | Victor Pelevin | The Clay Machine-Gun | 
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| 3 | Alfredo Véa | The Silver Cloud Café | 
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| 4 | Andrey Kurkov | Death and the Penguin | 
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| 5 | Michael Curtin | The Cove Shivering Club | 
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| 6 | Lawrence Norfolk | The Pope's Rhinoceros | 
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| 7 | William Gibson | Idoru | 
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| 8 | Graham Swift | Last Orders | 
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