The Guardian — 100 Best Novels in English
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103
Authors
7,149
Pages
1815–2001
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The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne
Emma
Jane Austen
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, Stephen King
Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe
Sybil
Benjamin Disraeli
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Vanity Fair
William Thackeray
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch
George Eliot
The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
New Grub Street
George Gissing
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
The Golden Bowl
Henry James, Gore Vidal
Hadrian the Seventh
Frederick Rolfe
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The History of Mr Polly
H.G. Wells
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham, Niall Ferguson
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Ulysses
James Joyce
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Anita Loos
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
Nineteen Nineteen
John Dos Passos
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
Murphy
Samuel Beckett
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
Party Going
Henry Green
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Joy in the Morning
P.G. Wodehouse
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
The Heat of the Day
Elizabeth Bowen
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Voss
Patrick White
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor
Rabbit Redux
John Updike
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Money: A Suicide Note
Martin Amis
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Beginning of Spring
Penelope Fitzgerald
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
Amongst Women
John McGahern
Underworld
Don DeLillo
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey