Book AwardsBBC Culture - The 100 Greatest British Novels

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TitlesOrder
Middlemarch by George Eliot1
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf2
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf3
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens4
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë5
Bleak House by Charles Dickens6
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë7
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens8
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray10
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen11
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford13
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson14
Atonement by Ian McEwan15
The Waves by Virginia Woolf16
Howards End by E. M. Forster17
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro18
Emma by Jane Austen19
Persuasion by Jane Austen20
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad21
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding22
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy23
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing24
White Teeth by Zadie Smith25
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien26
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe27
Villette by Charlotte Brontë28
Brick Lane by Monica Ali29
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe30
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene31
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster32
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame33
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro34
Remainder by Tom McCarthy35
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell36
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh37
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson38
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes39
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll40
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens41
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene42
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst43
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel44
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters45
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie46
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne47
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis48
Possession by A. S. Byatt49
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster50
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy51
New Grub Street by George Gissing52
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys53
NW by Zadie Smith54
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift55
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson56
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford57
Loving by Henry Green58
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst59
Sons And Lovers by D. H. Lawrence60
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch61
Animal Farm by George Orwell62
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark63
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope64
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf65
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen66
Crash by J. G. Ballard67
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess68
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad69
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot70
Old Filth by Jane Gardam71
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene72
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald73
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy74
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence75
Small Island by Andrea Levy76
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham77
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul78
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman79
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym80
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott81
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn82
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope83
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh84
The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker85
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford86
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett87
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen88
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary89
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins90
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy91
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons92
Lord of the Flies by William Golding93
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg94
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi95
The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing96
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis97
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry98
There But For The by Ali Smith99
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse100