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The Guardian's 100 greatest novels of all time

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44,377 members

571 reviews

4.1

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2

by Mary Shelley

51,434 members

814 reviews

3.8

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3

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,622 members

374 reviews

4

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4

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,503 members

818 reviews

3.9

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5

To Kill a Mockingbird

90,381 members

1,561 reviews

½ 4.4

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6

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,719 members

536 reviews

4

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7

by Charlotte Brontë

68,311 members

1,020 reviews

4.2

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8

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,228 members

1,306 reviews

3.8

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9

The Annotated Huckleberry Finn

361 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

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10

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

29,172 members

364 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

11

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,445 members

749 reviews

4

9 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda

12

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,940 members

169 reviews

3.8

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13

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,702 members

1,451 reviews

4.2

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14

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

36,033 members

533 reviews

4.1

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15

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,760 members

872 reviews

3.9

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16

by Raymond Chandler

11,587 members

315 reviews

4

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17

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

19,758 members

369 reviews

½ 3.7

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18

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,361 members

202 reviews

3.9

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,986 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

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20

by Gustave Flaubert

29,964 members

429 reviews

½ 3.7

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21

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

40,229 members

794 reviews

4.1

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22

The Thirty-Nine Steps

6,019 members

204 reviews

½ 3.5

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23

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

57,203 members

497 reviews

½ 4.5

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24

The Call of the Wild

22,951 members

348 reviews

3.8

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25

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,446 members

1,199 reviews

3.8

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26

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,043 members

104 reviews

3.9

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,904 members

370 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, oleonard, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

29

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,890 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

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30

by Albert Camus

21,223 members

281 reviews

3.9

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by Virginia Woolf

23,373 members

379 reviews

3.8

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

32

Little Women & Good Wives

by Louisa May Alcott

19,251 members

220 reviews

4.1

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33

44,271 members

701 reviews

4.1

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, steller0707

34

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,212 members

326 reviews

4.1

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35

by Joseph Heller

44,528 members

580 reviews

4.1

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36

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,599 members

821 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: oleonard, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana

37

The New York Trilogy

10,912 members

174 reviews

3.9

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38

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad

5,342 members

70 reviews

3.8

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39

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,758 members

206 reviews

4

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40

23,390 members

347 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, oleonard, rretzler, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

41

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,471 members

463 reviews

3.8

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42

by Herman Melville

42,007 members

622 reviews

3.8

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda

43

Charlotte's Web

41,744 members

1,071 reviews

4.2

6 Members: oleonard, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, steller0707

44

The Pilgrim's Progress

20,474 members

198 reviews

½ 3.7

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45

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,355 members

287 reviews

4

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ahef1963, leslie.98, Cubanana, steller0707

46

Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,595 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, ahef1963, leslie.98

47

27,539 members

378 reviews

4

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98

48

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

5,332 members

121 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98

49

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,583 members

125 reviews

3.9

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50

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,404 members

637 reviews

4.1

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

51

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,292 members

158 reviews

3.9

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana

52

Oscar and Lucinda

4,518 members

73 reviews

3.8

5 Members: oleonard, bryanjstephenson, gypsysmom, leslie.98, NinieB

53

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

7,359 members

106 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, Cubanana

54

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,671 members

398 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, Cubanana, steller0707

55

5,712 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, Cubanana

56

The Diary of a Nobody

by George Grossmith

3,622 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: oleonard, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana

57

Three Men in a Boat

by Jerome K. Jerome

8,717 members

329 reviews

3.9

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, steller0707

58

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,383 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98

59

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

31,019 members

497 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, Cubanana

60

22,991 members

271 reviews

4

4 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

61

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,623 members

136 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98, steller0707

62

The Portrait of a Lady [Norton Critical Edition]

457 members

4 reviews

4.2

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

63

by John Dos Passos

1,711 members

14 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98

64

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,350 members

784 reviews

4.2

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, NinieB

65

by Marilynne Robinson

7,119 members

236 reviews

3.9

5 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, steller0707

66

by Jack Kerouac

30,508 members

426 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, Cubanana

67

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

2,145 members

85 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98, steller0707

68

The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

3,228 members

64 reviews

4.2

4 Members: oleonard, leslie.98, NinieB, steller0707

69

Waiting for the barbarians

by J. M. Coetzee

4,909 members

83 reviews

4

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70

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

3,485 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98

71

The Bottle Factory Outing

by Beryl Bainbridge

603 members

23 reviews

½ 3.3

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98, steller0707

72

by Günter Grass

8,422 members

104 reviews

4

4 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98

73

Nightmare Abbey

by Thomas Love Peacock

486 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

74

28,827 members

667 reviews

3.9

4 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98

75

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,926 members

86 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner

76

Sybil, or The Two Nations

by Benjamin Disraeli

839 members

6 reviews

3.1

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

77

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

2,902 members

73 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

78

The Periodic Table

4,515 members

74 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner

79

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

by Elizabeth Taylor

1,529 members

68 reviews

4.1

2 Members: oleonard, -Pia-

80

by D. H. Lawrence

4,647 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

81

by William Faulkner

16,927 members

239 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, leslie.98, steller0707

82

by Kingsley Amis

6,393 members

161 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: oleonard, ahef1963, leslie.98

83

by George Eliot

4,208 members

61 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98

84

by Angela Carter

2,105 members

46 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

85

Money: A Suicide Note

3,610 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

86

American Pastoral

8,887 members

189 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom

87

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

9,735 members

250 reviews

4.1

3 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98

88

by W. G. Sebald

4,798 members

117 reviews

4.1

3 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98

89

The Black Sheep

by Honoré de Balzac

737 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

90

The Charterhouse of Parma

5,003 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

91

by Evelyn Waugh

4,239 members

94 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, leslie.98

92

by Samuel Beckett

983 members

21 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, leslie.98

93

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway

1,857 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

94

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

3,203 members

50 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

95

by Flannery O'Connor

4,412 members

124 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, steller0707

96

by Alasdair Gray

2,417 members

41 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

97

An Artist of the Floating World

by Kazuo Ishiguro

4,434 members

117 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

98

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

6,650 members

67 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

99

L. A. Confidential

by James Ellroy

3,728 members

42 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

100

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie

5,444 members

96 reviews

4

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