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The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
Book awards: The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
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Works (95)
Titles
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by
Mark Twain
2003
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by
Lewis Carroll
2003
Anna Karenina
by
Leo Tolstoy
2003
An Artist of the Floating World
by
Kazuo Ishiguro
2003
As I Lay Dying
by
William Faulkner
2003
Atonement
by
Ian McEwan
2003
Austerlitz
by
W. G. Sebald
2003
A Bend in the River
by
V. S. Naipaul
2003
The BFG
by
Roald Dahl
2003
The Big Sleep
by
Raymond Chandler
2003
The Black Sheep
by
Honoré de Balzac
2003
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by
Milan Kundera
2003
The Bottle Factory Outing
by
Beryl Bainbridge
2003
Brave New World
by
Aldous Huxley
2003
The Brothers Karamazov
by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
2003
The Call of the Wild
by
Jack London
2003
Catch-22
by
Joseph Heller
2003
The Catcher in the Rye
by
J. D. Salinger
2003
Charlotte's Web
by
E. B. White
2003
The Charterhouse of Parma
by
Stendhal
2003
Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady
by
Samuel Richardson
2003
The Count of Monte Cristo
by
Alexandre Dumas
2003
Daniel Deronda
by
George Eliot
2003
David Copperfield
by
Charles Dickens
2003
The Diary of a Nobody
by
George Grossmith
2003
Don Quixote
by
Miguel de Cervantes
2003
Emma
by
Jane Austen
2003
The Executioner's Song
by
Norman Mailer
2003
Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley
2003
The Golden Compass
by
Philip Pullman
2003
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
by
Ford Madox Ford
2003
The Great Gatsby
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2003
Gulliver's Travels
by
Jonathan Swift
2003
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
by
Salman Rushdie
2003
Herzog
by
Saul Bellow
2003
Housekeeping
by
Marilynne Robinson
2003
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by
Italo Calvino
2003
In Search of Lost Time
by
Marcel Proust
2003
Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Brontë
2003
Journey to the End of the Night
by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2003
Jude the Obscure
by
Thomas Hardy
2003
L. A. Confidential
by
James Ellroy
2003
Lanark
by
Alasdair Gray
2003
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by
Choderlos de Laclos
2003
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by
Laurence Sterne
2003
Little Women
by
Louisa May Alcott
2003
Lolita
by
Vladimir Nabokov
2003
Lord of the Flies
by
William Golding
2003
The Lord of the Rings
by
J. R. R. Tolkien
2003
Lucky Jim
by
Kingsley Amis
2003
Madame Bovary
by
Gustave Flaubert
2003
Malone Dies
by
Samuel Beckett
2003
Men Without Women
by
Ernest Hemingway
2003
Moby Dick; or, The Whale
by
Herman Melville
2003
Money
by
Martin Amis
2003
Mrs Dalloway
by
Virginia Woolf
2003
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
by
Elizabeth Taylor
2003
The New York Trilogy
by
Paul Auster
2003
Nightmare Abbey
by
Thomas Love Peacock
2003
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by
George Orwell
2003
Nostromo
by
Joseph Conrad
2003
On the Road
by
Jack Kerouac
2003
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by
Gabriel García Márquez
2003
Oscar and Lucinda
by
Peter Carey
2003
A Passage to India
by
E. M. Forster
2003
The Periodic Table
by
Primo Levi
2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
2003
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come
by
John Bunyan
2003
The Plague
by
Albert Camus
2003
Portrait of a Lady
by
Henry James
2003
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by
Muriel Spark
2003
The Quiet American
by
Graham Greene
2003
The Rainbow
by
D. H. Lawrence
2003
The Riddle of the Sands
by
Erskine Childers
2003
The Scarlet Letter
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
2003
Scoop
by
Evelyn Waugh
2003
Song of Solomon
by
Toni Morrison
2003
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by
Robert Louis Stevenson
2003
Sybil
by
Benjamin Disraeli
2003
Things Fall Apart
by
Chinua Achebe
2003
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by
John Buchan
2003
Three men in a boat
by
Jerome K. Jerome
2003
The Tin Drum
by
Günter Grass
2003
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by
John Le Carré
2003
To Kill A Mockingbird
by
Harper Lee
2003
Tom Jones
by
Henry Fielding
2003
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
by
John Dos Passos
2003
Ulysses
by
James Joyce
2003
Vanity Fair
by
William Makepeace Thackeray
2003
Waiting for the Barbarians
by
J. M. Coetzee
2003
The Way We Live Now
by
Anthony Trollope
2003
The Wind in the Willows
by
Kenneth Grahame
2003
Wise Blood
by
Flannery O'Connor
2003
The Woman in White
by
Wilkie Collins
2003
Wuthering Heights
by
Emily Brontë
2003
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Chinua Achebe
Louisa May Alcott
Kingsley Amis
Martin Amis
Jane Austen
Paul Auster
Beryl Bainbridge
Honoré de Balzac
Samuel Beckett
Saul Bellow
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
John Buchan
John Bunyan
Italo Calvino
Albert Camus
Peter Carey
John Le Carré
Lewis Carroll
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Raymond Chandler
Erskine Childers
J. M. Coetzee
Wilkie Collins
Joseph Conrad
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Benjamin Disraeli
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
James Ellroy
William Faulkner
Henry Fielding
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gustave Flaubert
Ford Madox Ford
E. M. Forster
William Golding
Kenneth Grahame
Günter Grass
Alasdair Gray
Graham Greene
George Grossmith
Thomas Hardy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Aldous Huxley
Kazuo Ishiguro
Henry James
Jerome K. Jerome
James Joyce
Jack Kerouac
Milan Kundera
Choderlos de Laclos
D. H. Lawrence
Harper Lee
Primo Levi
Jack London
Norman Mailer
Gabriel García Márquez
Ian McEwan
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
Vladimir Nabokov
V. S. Naipaul
Flannery O'Connor
George Orwell
John Dos Passos
Thomas Love Peacock
Marcel Proust
Philip Pullman
Samuel Richardson
Marilynne Robinson
Salman Rushdie
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
J. D. Salinger
W. G. Sebald
Mary Shelley
Muriel Spark
Stendhal
Laurence Sterne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jonathan Swift
Elizabeth Taylor
William Makepeace Thackeray
J. R. R. Tolkien
Leo Tolstoy
Anthony Trollope
Mark Twain
Evelyn Waugh
E. B. White
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
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