Book awards: The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

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Works (100)

Titles	Order
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes	1
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan	2
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe	3
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift	4
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding	5
Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson	6
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne	7
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos	8
Emma by Jane Austen	9
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley	10
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock	11
The Black Sheep (Penguin Classics) by Honoré de Balzac	12
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal	13
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Père	14
Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli	15
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens	16
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë	17
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë	18
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray	19
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne	20
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville	21
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert	22
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins	23
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll	24
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott	25
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope	26
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy	27
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot	28
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky	29
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James	30
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain	31
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson	32
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome	33
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde	34
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith	35
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy	36
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers	37
The Call of the Wild by Jack London	38
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad	39
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame	40
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust	41
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence	42
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford	43
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan	44
Ulysses by James Joyce	45
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf	46
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster	47
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	48
The Trial by Franz Kafka	49
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway	50
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline	51
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner	52
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley	53
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh	54
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos	55
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler	56
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford	57
The Plague by Albert Camus	58
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell	59
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett	60
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger	61
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor	62
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White	63
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien	64
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis	65
Lord of the Flies by William Golding	66
The Quiet American by Graham Greene	67
On the Road by Jack Kerouac	68
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov	69
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass	70
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe	71
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark	72
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee	73
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller	74
Herzog by Saul Bellow	75
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez	76
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor	77
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré	78
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison	79
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge	80
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer	81
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino	82
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul	83
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee	84
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson	85
Lanark by Alasdair Gray	86
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster	87
The BFG by Roald Dahl	88
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi	89
Money by Martin Amis	90
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro	91
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey	92
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera	93
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie	94
L. A. Confidential by James Ellroy	95
Wise Children by Angela Carter	96
Atonement by Ian McEwan	97
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman	98
American pastoral by Philip Roth	99
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald	100