Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
The Long Walk
Stephen King
Intensity
Dean Koontz
The waste lands
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe; Virginia Woolf
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
The system of the world
Neal Stephenson
Drood: A Novel
Dan Simmons
1984
George Orwell
About a Boy
Nick Hornby
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
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