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25. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov -1967 - USSR 24. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - Jose Saramango -1984 -Portugal 23. The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts - Luis de Bernieres - 1990 - UK 22. Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin- 1983 -USA 21. One Arm- Yasunari Kawabata - 1969 -Japan 20. Perfume - Patrick Suskind -1985-Germany 19. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - Angela Carter- 1972- UK 18. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel -1989- Mexico 17. The Kingdom of This World- Alejo Carpentier -1949 -Cuba 16. A Universal History of Infamy - Jose Luis Borges - 1935 - Argentina 15. Illywhacker - Peter Carey - 1985 -Australia. 14. Chocolat - Joanne Harris - 1999-UK 13. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende - 1982 -USA/Chile 12. The Game of Contemporaneity - Kenzaburo Oe - 1979 - Japan 11. The Green Mile- Stephen King - 1996- USA

10. The Shadow of the Wind -Carlos Ruiz Zafon -2001- Spain 9.The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz- 2007- Dominican Republic/USA 8. Everything Is Illuminated-Jonathan Safran Foer - 2002. USA 7.The Famished Road - Ben Okri -1992- Nigeria 6.In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje -1987 - Sri Lanka/Canada 5. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 1985-Colombia 4.The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera -1979- Czechoslovakia 3. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass -1958 -Germany 2. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie -1981- UK 1.One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 1967- Colombia

The UEFA Champions League (CL) football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. Prior to 1992 the tournament was officially called the European Champion Clubs' Cup but was usually referred to as simply the European Cup or European Champions' Cup. The competition was initially a straight knockout competition open only to the champion club of each country. The tournament consists of several stages. In the present format it begins in mid-July with three knockout qualifying rounds and a play-off round. The 10 surviving teams join 22 seeded teams in the group stage, in which there are eight groups consisting of four teams each. The eight group winners and eight runners-up enter the final knockout phase, which ends with the final match in May. Since the tournament changed name and structure in 1992, no club has managed consecutive wins (WIkipedia for the above) The consecutive finalists so far have been AC Milan (1993(L),1994(W...

(still) in no particluar order 35. Anthologie de l'humour noir - Andre Breton -1939 - France 34.The Horse's Mouth - Joyce Carrey -1944-Ireland 33. A Season in Sinji - J.L. Carr - 1967 -UK 32. A good Man in Africa - William Boyd -1981 - Scotland 31. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow -1959 -Canada 30.Zulieka Dobson -Max Beerbohm -1911 -UK 29. Omeros -Derek Walcott -1990- St. Lucia 28. Molloy - Samuel Beckett - 1954 -France 27.Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes -1984-UK 26. Money -Martin Amis -1984 - UK 25. I served the King of England - Bohumil Hrbal -1983- Czech Republic 24. High Fidelit - Nick Hornby -1995- Uk 23. The Little World of Don Camillo - Giovanni Guareschi -1948 -Italy 22. Brewster's Millions -George Barr McCutcheon-1902-US 21. Great Apes - Will Self -1997 -UK

in no particular order: 20.Portnoy's Complaint - Phillip Roth -1969 -US 19.Zazie dans le Metro - Raymond Queneau -1959 -France 18.Fireflies- Shiva Naipaul - 1970-UK 17.Puckoon -Spike Mulligan -1963-UK 16.Nice Work - David Lodge - 1988 -UK 15. The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike -1984-US 14. A Confederacy of Dunces -John Kennedy Toole -1980 -US 13. Penrod -Booth Tarkington - 1914 -US 12. Office Politics - Wilfred Sheed -1966 - US 11. The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy -1955- France/Ireland 10. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh - 1938 - UK 9.Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis- 1954 -UK 8. Catch -22 - Joseph Heller- 1961 -US 7.Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse -1934 -UK 6. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams - 1971-UK 5. Breakfast of Champions-Kurt Vonnegut - 1973 -US 4.My Uncle Oswald - Roald Dahl - 1979 -UK 3 . What's The Worst That Could Happen? - Donald Westlake -1996- US 2.The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood - 1969 -Canada 1.Brigdet Jones's Diary - Helen Feilding- 1996 -UK