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Top Twenty Greatest British/Irish novels:
1. Ulysses--James Joyce
2. Middlemarch--George Eliot
3. Nostromo--Joseph Conrad
4. Persuasion--Jane Austen
5. Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
6. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man--James Joyce
7. Mrs. Dalloway--Virginia Woolf
8. To the Lighthouse--Virginia Woolf
9. Bleak House--Charles Dickens
10. Watt/Molloy (Tie)--Samuel Beckett
11.. The Book of Evidence--John Banville
12. Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad
13. Brideshead Revisited--Evelyn Waugh
14.. Never Let Me Go--Kazuo Ishiguro
15. Ghostwritten--David Mitchell
16. Crash--J.G. Ballard
17. The Secret Agent--Joseph Conrad
18. The Good Soldier--Ford Madox Ford
19. The Waves--Virginia Woolf
20. The Sea--John Banville
Henry James was an American, so I refuse to cede his sublimely brilliant work to the Brits...;)
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Middlemarch .........Eliot brought her formidable acuity to the evocation of a very particular time
