The Guardian — 100 Greatest Novels
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107
Authors
7,890
Pages
1815–2002
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes, Carlos Fuentes
Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson
Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne
Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Emma
Jane Austen
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, Stephen King
Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock
The Black Sheep
Honoré de Balzac
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Sybil
Benjamin Disraeli
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevesky
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
Ulysses
James Joyce
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
USA
John Dos Passos, Niall Ferguson, Noam Chomsky
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford
The Plague
Albert Camus
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Malone Dies
Samuel Beckett
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Quiet American
Graham Greene
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Herzog
Saul Bellow
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
The Bottle Factory Outing
Beryl Bainbridge
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul
Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Lanark
Alasdair Gray
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
The BFG
Roald Dahl, John Williams
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi
Money
Martin Amis, Yuval Noah Harari
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
LA Confidential
James Ellroy
Wise Children
Angela Carter
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Northern Lights
Philip Pullman
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald