The Telegraph's 100 novels everyone should read

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As listed on the Telegraph's website. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html)
WorkOrder Label
Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
1
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
2
Anna Karenina (1875) by Leo Tolstoy
3
The Portrait of a Lady (1908) by Henry James
4
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
5
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
6
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
7
Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee
8
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
9
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
11
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
12
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
13
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
14
The Code of the Woosters (1938) by P. G. Wodehouse
15
Brighton Rock (1938) by Graham Greene
16
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
17
Scoop (1938) by Evelyn Waugh
18
The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells
19
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
20
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
21
A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
22
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
23
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
24
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
25
Cranford (1851) by Elizabeth Gaskell
26
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
27
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
28
Life: A User's Manual (1978) by Georges Perec
29
Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
30
Suite Française (2004) by Irène Némirovsky
31
A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter (1976) by Anthony Powell
32
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747) by Samuel Richardson
33
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
34
Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
35
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
36
The Warden (1855) by Anthony Trollope
37
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
38
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
39
The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton
40
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
41
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
42
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (1995) by John Updike
43
Nausea (1959) by Jean-Paul Sartre
44
The Voyeur (1958) by Alain Robbe-Grillet
45
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
46
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1983) by Milan Kundera
47
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
48
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
49
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
50
Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
51
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
52
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
53
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
54
Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald
55
The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
56
The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
57
The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño
58
London Fields (1989) by Martin Amis
59
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60
My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk
61
Gulliver's Travels (1727) by Jonathan Swift
62
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
63
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (1956) by Naguib Mahfouz
64
Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
65
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
66
A Bend in the River (1979) by V. S. Naipaul
67
Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard
68
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
69
The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
70
Dream of the Red Chamber (1791) by Cao Xueqin
71
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) by Anne Tyler
72
All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) by Erich Maria Remarque
73
Waiting for Mahatma (1981) by R. K. Narayan
74
Cider with Rosie (1959) by Laurie Lee
75
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
76
Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
77
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
78
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
79
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey
80
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
81
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
82
Germinal (1885) by Émile Zola
83
The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
84
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal
85
Old Goriot (1835) by Honoré de Balzac
86
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
87
Eugene Onegin (1964) by Alexander Pushkin
88
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
89
Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch
90
The Tale of Genji (2015) by Shikibu Murasaki
91
Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons
92
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) by John le Carré
93
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
94
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
95
The Arabian Nights (1300) by Muhsin Mahdi
96
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams
97
The Home and the World (1915) by Rabindranath Tagore
98
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
99
The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
100

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