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The Times' 20 best modern novels
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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