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The indispensable guide for every readerAlarmed by the ignorance often displayed towards our literary past, Carmen Callil and Colm Toibin have chosen the 194 books since 1950 that they consider to be the best. Some familiar names - Naipaul, Updike, Bellow and Nabokov - rub shoulders with some real surprises like Mario Puzo and Thomas Harris. Witty, controversial and written to encourage reading, no household should be without The Modern Library

Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including Brooklyn, the 2009 Costa Novel of the Year, The Master, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and winner of the LA Times Book Prize and the IMPAC Book Award, and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize and the 2001 IMPAC Award. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross and Love in a Dark Time. He is also the author of two short-story collections, Mothers and Sons, which was awarded the inaugural Edge Hill Prize, and The Empty Family, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Dublin.