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Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart

Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories

Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice

Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot

Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions

Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights

Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger

Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote

Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales

Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories

Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo

Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy

Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations

Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz

Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov

George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch

Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man

Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea

William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury

Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera

Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust

Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls

Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum

Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.

Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea

Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey

Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll’s House

The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).

James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses

Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia

Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala

Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain

Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek

DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers

Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People

Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems

Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook

Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking

Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).

Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi

Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain

Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick

Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.

Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History

Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved

Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji

Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities

Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita

Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).

George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984

Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses

Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet

Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales

Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past

Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel

Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo

Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi

Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight’s Children

Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard

Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North

Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness

William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello

Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King

Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black

Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno

Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver’s Travels

Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).

Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana

Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid

Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass

Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse

Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian

http://www.thebest100lists.com/best100novels/

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9. Animal Farm by George Orwell
10. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
12. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
13. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
14. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
16. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
18. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
19. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
20. Ulysses by James Joyce
21. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
22. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
23. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
24. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
25. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
26. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
27. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
29. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
30. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
31. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
32. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
33. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
34. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
35. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
36. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
37. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
38. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
39. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
40. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
41. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
42. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
43. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
44. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
45. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
46. The Stranger by Albert Camus
47. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
48. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
49. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
50. Watership Down by Richard Adams
51. His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
52. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
53. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
54. Dracula by Bram Stoker
55. The Stand by Stephen King
56. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
57. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
58. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
59. Dune by Frank Herbert
60. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
61. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
63. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
64. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
65. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
66. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
68. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
69. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
70. Middlemarch by George Eliot
71. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
72. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
73. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
74. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
75. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
76. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
77. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
78. Persuasion by Jane Austen
79. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
80. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
81. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
82. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
83. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
84. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
85. The Trial by Franz Kafka
86. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
87. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
88. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
89. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
90. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
91. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
92. Emma by Jane Austen
93. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
94. Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
95. The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
96. Atonement by Ian McEwan
97. Beloved by Toni Morrison
98. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
99. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
100. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Board’s List

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
13. 1984 by George Orwell
14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara
23. U.S.A.(trilogy) by John Dos Passos
24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
36. ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
52. PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
57. PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
87. THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
89. LOVING by Henry Green
90. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
96. SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron
97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

The Reader’s List

1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
11. ULYSSES by James Joyce
12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. DUNE by Frank Herbert
15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
21. GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
29. THE STAND by Stephen King
30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN by John Fowles
31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
35. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O’Connor
39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
42. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
43. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
44. YARROW by Charles de Lint
45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
50. TRADER by Charles de Lint
51. THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
53. THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood
54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
58. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
59. ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card
60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
67. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
69. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
71. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O’Brien
77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
78. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
84. IT by Stephen King
85. V. by Thomas Pynchon
86. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey
91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
94. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
98. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

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1. Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes Catholic

2. War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy Russian Orthodox

3. Ulysses 1922 James Joyce Catholic (lapsed)

4. In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust Jewish Catholic

5. The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky Russian Orthodox

6. Moby-Dick 1851 Herman Melville Transcendentalist

7. Madame Bovary 1857 Gustave Flaubert Catholic

8. Middlemarch 1871-72 George Eliot Anglican; agnostic

9. The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann Lutheran

10. The Tale of Genji 11th Century Murasaki Shikibu Buddhist/Shinto culture

11. Emma 1816 Jane Austen Anglican

12. Bleak House 1852-53 Charles Dickens Anglican

13. Anna Karenina 1877 Leo Tolstoy Russian Orthodox

14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884 Mark Twain Presbyterian

15. Tom Jones 1749 Henry Fielding

16. Great Expectations 1860-61 Charles Dickens Anglican

17. Absalom, Absalom! 1936 William Faulkner Presbyterian

18. The Ambassadors 1903 Henry James Anglican

19. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Catholic

20. The Great Gatsby 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald Catholic

21. To The Lighthouse 1927 Virginia Woolf Neo-pagan

22. Crime and Punishment 1866 Feodor Dostoevsky Russian Orthodox

23. The Sound and the Fury 1929 William Faulkner Presbyterian

24. Vanity Fair 1847-48 William Makepeace Thackeray

25. Invisible Man 1952 Ralph Ellison

26. Finnegans Wake 1939 James Joyce Catholic (lapsed)

27. The Man Without Qualities 1930-43 Robert Musil Catholic

28. Gravity's Rainbow 1973 Thomas Pynchon Catholic; agnostic

29. The Portrait of a Lady 1881 Henry James Anglican

30. Women in Love 1920 D. H. Lawrence

31. The Red and the Black 1830 Stendhal Catholic

32. Tristram Shandy 1760-67 Laurence Sterne Anglican (Church of Ireland clergyman)

33. Dead Souls 1842 Nikolai Gogol Russian Orthodox

34. Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1891 Thomas Hardy

35. Buddenbrooks 1901 Thomas Mann Lutheran

36. Le Pere Goriot 1835 Honore de Balzac Catholic

37. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1916 James Joyce Catholic (lapsed)

38. Wuthering Heights 1847 Emily Bronte Anglican

39. The Tin Drum 1959 Gunter Grass Catholic

40. Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable 1951-53 Samuel Beckett Church of Ireland (Anglican)

41. Pride and Prejudice 1813 Jane Austen Anglican

42. The Scarlet Letter 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne Transcendentalist

43. Fathers and Sons 1862 Ivan Turgenev Russian Orthodox; agnostic

44. Nostromo 1904 Joseph Conrad Catholic; atheist

45. Beloved 1987 Toni Morrison

46. An American Tragedy 1925 Theodore Dreiser Catholic; Congregationalist; Chrisitan Science

47. Lolita 1955 Vladimir Nabokov Russian Orthodox

48. The Golden Notebook 1962 Doris Lessing

49. Clarissa 1747-48 Samuel Richardson

50. Dream of the Red Chamber 1791 Cao Xueqin

51. The Trial 1925 Franz Kafka Jewish

52. Jane Eyre 1847 Charlotte Bronte Anglican

53. The Red Badge of Courage 1895 Stephen Crane Methodist

54. The Grapes of Wrath 1939 John Steinbeck Episcopalian

55. Petersburg 1916/1922 Andrey Bely Russian Orthodox; Theosophy; Spiritualism

56. Things Fall Apart 1958 Chinue Achebe

57. The Princess of Cleves 1678 Madame de Lafayette

58. The Stranger 1942 Albert Camus Catholic; Existentialism

59. My Antonia 1918 Willa Cather Episcopalian

60. The Counterfeiters 1926 Andre Gide

61. The Age of Innocence 1920 Edith Wharton

62. The Good Soldier 1915 Ford Madox Ford Catholic; agnostic

63. The Awakening 1899 Kate Chopin Catholic

64. A Passage to India 1924 E. M. Forster

65. Herzog 1964 Saul Bellow Orthodox Jew (lapsed); Anthroposophist

66. Germinal 1855 Emile Zola Catholic

67. Call It Sleep 1934 Henry Roth Jewish

68. U.S.A. Trilogy 1930-38 John Dos Passos Catholic

69. Hunger 1890 Knut Hamsun

70. Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929 Alfred Doblin Catholic

71. Cities of Salt 1984-89 'Abd al-Rahman Munif

72. The Death of Artemio Cruz 1962 Carlos Fuentes Catholic

73. A Farewell to Arms 1929 Ernest Hemingway Catholic

74. Brideshead Revisited 1945 Evelyn Waugh Catholic

75. The Last Chronicle of Barset 1866-67 Anthony Trollope Anglican

76. The Pickwick Papers 1836-67 Charles Dickens Anglican

77. Robinson Crusoe 1719 Daniel Defoe Protestant Dissenter (Presbyterian)

78. The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Deist

79. Candide 1759 Voltaire raised in Jansenism; later Deist

80. Native Son 1940 Richard Wright Seventh-day Adventist; Communist

81. Under the Volcano 1947 Malcolm Lowry Methodist; Anglican; agnostic

82. Oblomov 1859 Ivan Goncharov

83. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 Zora Neale Hurston

84. Waverley 1814 Sir Walter Scott Anglican

85. Snow Country 1937, 1948 Kawabata Yasunari

86. Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949 George Orwell Anglican

87. The Betrothed 1827, 1840 Alessandro Manzoni Catholic

88. The Last of the Mohicans 1826 James Fenimore Cooper Episcopalian

89. Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe Episcopalian; Congregationalist

90. Les Miserables 1862 Victor Hugo Catholic

91. On the Road 1957 Jack Kerouac Catholic; Buddhism

92. Frankenstein 1818 Mary Shelley

93. The Leopard 1958 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Catholic

94. The Catcher in the Rye 1951 J.D. Salinger Jewish Catholic; Scientologist

95. The Woman in White 1860 Wilkie Collins

96. The Good Soldier Svejk 1921-23 Jaroslav Hasek Catholic

97. Dracula 1897 Bram Stoker Church of Ireland (Anglican)

98. The Three Musketeers 1844 Alexandre Dumas agnostic; Catholic

99. The Hound of Baskervilles 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle Catholic; Spiritualist

100. Gone with the Wind 1936 Margaret Mitchell Catholic

  

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1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes

The story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced readers for centuries.

2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan

The one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair.

3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

The first English novel.

4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift

A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision.

5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding

The adventures of a high-spirited orphan boy: an unbeatable plot and a lot of sex ending in a blissful marriage.

6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson

One of the longest novels in the English language, but unputdownable.

7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne

One of the first bestsellers, dismissed by Dr Johnson as too fashionable for its own good.

8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

An epistolary novel and a handbook for seducers: foppish, French, and ferocious.

9. Emma Jane Austen

Near impossible choice between this and Pride and Prejudice. But Emma never fails to fascinate and annoy.

10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Inspired by spending too much time with Shelley and Byron.

11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock

A classic miniature: a brilliant satire on the Romantic novel.

12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac

Two rivals fight for the love of a femme fatale. Wrongly overlooked.

13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal

Penetrating and compelling chronicle of life in an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France.

14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

A revenge thriller also set in France after Bonaparte: a masterpiece of adventure writing.

15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli

Apart from Churchill, no other British political figure shows literary genius.

16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens

This highly autobiographical novel is the one its author liked best.

17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff have passed into the language. Impossible to ignore

18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

Obsessive emotional grip and haunting narrative.

19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray

The improving tale of Becky Sharp.

20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

A classic investigation of the American mind.

21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville

'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening sentences of any novel.

22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

You could summarise this as a story of adultery in provincial France, and miss the point entirely.

23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins

Gripping mystery novel of concealed identity, abduction, fraud and mental cruelty.

24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll

A story written for the nine-year-old daughter of an Oxford don that still baffles most kids.

25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott

Victorian bestseller about a New England family of girls.

26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope

A majestic assault on the corruption of late Victorian England.

27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy

The supreme novel of the married woman's passion for a younger man.

28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot

A passion and an exotic grandeur that is strange and unsettling.

29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mystical tragedy by the author of Crime and Punishment.

30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James

The story of Isabel Archer shows James at his witty and polished best.

31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

Twain was a humorist, but this picture of Mississippi life is profoundly moral and still incredibly influential.

32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

A brilliantly suggestive, resonant study of human duality by a natural storyteller.

33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome

One of the funniest English books ever written.

34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

A coded and epigrammatic melodrama inspired by his own tortured homosexuality.

35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith

This classic of Victorian suburbia will always be renowned for the character of Mr Pooter.

36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy

Its savage bleakness makes it one of the first twentieth-century novels.

37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers

A prewar invasion-scare spy thriller by a writer later shot for his part in the Irish republican rising.

38. The Call of the Wild Jack London

The story of a dog who joins a pack of wolves after his master's death.

39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad

Conrad's masterpiece: a tale of money, love and revolutionary politics.

40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame

This children's classic was inspired by bedtime stories for Grahame's son.

41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust

An unforgettable portrait of Paris in the belle epoque. Probably the longest novel on this list.

42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence

Novels seized by the police, like this one, have a special afterlife.

43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford

This account of the adulterous lives of two Edwardian couples is a classic of unreliable narration.

44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan

A classic adventure story for boys, jammed with action, violence and suspense.

45. Ulysses James Joyce

Also pursued by the British police, this is a novel more discussed than read.

46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf

Secures Woolf's position as one of the great twentieth-century English novelists.

47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster

The great novel of the British Raj, it remains a brilliant study of empire.

48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

The quintessential Jazz Age novel.

49. The Trial Franz Kafka The enigmatic story of Joseph K.

50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway

He is remembered for his novels, but it was the short stories that first attracted notice.

51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The experiences of an unattractive slum doctor during the Great War: a masterpiece of linguistic innovation.

52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner

A strange black comedy by an American master.

53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Dystopian fantasy about the world of the seventh century AF (after Ford).

54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh

The supreme Fleet Street novel.

55. USA John Dos Passos

An extraordinary trilogy that uses a variety of narrative devices to express the story of America.

56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler

Introducing Philip Marlowe: cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone.

57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford

An exquisite comedy of manners with countless fans.

58. The Plague Albert Camus

A mysterious plague sweeps through the Algerian town of Oran.

59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

This tale of one man's struggle against totalitarianism has been appropriated the world over.

60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett

Part of a trilogy of astonishing monologues in the black comic voice of the author of Waiting for Godot.

61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger

A week in the life of Holden Caulfield. A cult novel that still mesmerises.

62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor

A disturbing novel of religious extremism set in the Deep South.

63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White

How Wilbur the pig was saved by the literary genius of a friendly spider.

64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien

Enough said!

65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis

An astonishing debut: the painfully funny English novel of the Fifties.

66. Lord of the Flies William Golding

Schoolboys become savages: a bleak vision of human nature.

67. The Quiet American Graham Greene

Prophetic novel set in 1950s Vietnam.

68 On the Road Jack Kerouac

The Beat Generation bible.

69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

Humbert Humbert's obsession with Lolita is a tour de force of style and narrative.

70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass

Hugely influential, Rabelaisian novel of Hitler's Germany.

71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe

Nigeria at the beginning of colonialism. A classic of African literature.

72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark

A writer who made her debut in The Observer - and her prose is like cut glass.

73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee

Scout, a six-year-old girl, narrates an enthralling story of racial prejudice in the Deep South.

74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller

'[He] would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.'

75. Herzog Saul Bellow

Adultery and nervous breakdown in Chicago.

76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A postmodern masterpiece.

77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor

A haunting, understated study of old age.

78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre

A thrilling elegy for post-imperial Britain.

79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

The definitive novelist of the African-American experience.

80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge

Macabre comedy of provincial life.

81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer

This quasi-documentary account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore is possibly his masterpiece.

82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino

A strange, compelling story about the pleasures of reading.

83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul

The finest living writer of English prose. This is his masterpiece: edgily reminiscent of Heart of Darkness.

84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee

Bleak but haunting allegory of apartheid by the Nobel prizewinner.

85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson

Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women.

86. Lanark Alasdair Gray

Seething vision of Glasgow. A Scottish classic.

87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster

Dazzling metaphysical thriller set in the Manhattan of the 1970s.

88. The BFG Roald Dahl

A bestseller by the most popular postwar writer for children of all ages.

89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi

A prose poem about the delights of chemistry.

90. Money Martin Amis

The novel that bags Amis's place on any list.

91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro

A collaborator from prewar Japan reluctantly discloses his betrayal of friends and family.

92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey

A great contemporary love story set in nineteenth-century Australia by double Booker prizewinner.

93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera

Inspired by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this is a magical fusion of history, autobiography and ideas.

94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie

In this entrancing story Rushdie plays with the idea of narrative itself.

95. La Confidential James Ellroy

Three LAPD detectives are brought face to face with the secrets of their corrupt and violent careers.

96. Wise Children Angela Carter

A theatrical extravaganza by a brilliant exponent of magic realism.

97. Atonement Ian McEwan

Acclaimed short-story writer achieves a contemporary classic of mesmerising narrative conviction.

98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman

Lyra's quest weaves fantasy, horror and the play of ideas into a truly great contemporary children's book.

99. American Pastoral Philip Roth

For years, Roth was famous for Portnoy's Complaint . Recently, he has enjoyed an extraordinary revival.

100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald

Posthumously published volume in a sequence of dream-like fictions spun from memory, photographs and the German past.