The Times' 20 best modern novels
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13. 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov
This book is the reason why most mothers don't call their child Lolita (or Delores) anymore. It's easy to see why - she's the 12-year-old object of twisted sexual affection from Humbert Humbert, a man whose musings are both infectiously enraging and blackly hilarious.
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