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The Guardian's 100 greatest novels of all time

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44,101 members

570 reviews

4.1

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2

by Mary Shelley

51,185 members

811 reviews

3.8

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3

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,556 members

374 reviews

4

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4

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,084 members

812 reviews

3.9

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5

To Kill a Mockingbird

89,968 members

1,559 reviews

½ 4.4

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6

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,532 members

534 reviews

4

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7

by Charlotte Brontë

67,962 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

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8

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,901 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

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9

The Annotated Huckleberry Finn

358 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

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10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

29,028 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

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11

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,168 members

749 reviews

4

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12

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,957 members

167 reviews

3.8

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13

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,247 members

1,450 reviews

4.2

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14

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,869 members

532 reviews

4.1

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15

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,493 members

869 reviews

3.9

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16

by Raymond Chandler

11,514 members

314 reviews

4

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17

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

19,658 members

367 reviews

½ 3.7

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18

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,294 members

201 reviews

3.9

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19

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,779 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

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20

by Gustave Flaubert

29,814 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

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21

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

40,124 members

792 reviews

4.1

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22

The Thirty-Nine Steps

5,989 members

203 reviews

½ 3.5

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23

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

56,920 members

496 reviews

½ 4.5

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24

The Call of the Wild

22,810 members

346 reviews

3.8

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25

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,141 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

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26

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,006 members

103 reviews

3.9

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27

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

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28

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,784 members

368 reviews

4.1

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29

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,881 members

189 reviews

½ 3.7

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30

by Albert Camus

21,103 members

281 reviews

3.9

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

31

by Virginia Woolf

23,265 members

376 reviews

3.8

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32

Little Women & Good Wives

by Louisa May Alcott

19,146 members

219 reviews

4.1

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33

44,055 members

698 reviews

4.1

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

34

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,154 members

325 reviews

4.1

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35

by Joseph Heller

44,341 members

578 reviews

4.1

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36

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,341 members

817 reviews

½ 3.7

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37

The New York Trilogy

10,847 members

174 reviews

3.9

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38

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad

5,325 members

70 reviews

3.8

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39

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,721 members

206 reviews

4

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40

23,278 members

347 reviews

4.1

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

41

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,338 members

460 reviews

3.8

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42

by Herman Melville

41,737 members

619 reviews

3.8

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43

Charlotte's Web

41,445 members

1,069 reviews

4.2

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44

The Pilgrim's Progress

20,352 members

197 reviews

½ 3.7

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45

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,276 members

284 reviews

4

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46

Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,592 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

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47

27,446 members

377 reviews

4

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

48

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

5,316 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

8,575 members

125 reviews

3.9

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50

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,277 members

635 reviews

4.1

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51

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,248 members

157 reviews

3.9

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

52

Oscar and Lucinda

4,490 members

73 reviews

3.8

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

53

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

7,319 members

106 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, Cubanana

54

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,469 members

395 reviews

½ 4.4

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

55

5,698 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

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

56

The Diary of a Nobody

by George Grossmith

3,608 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

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

57

Three Men in a Boat

by Jerome K. Jerome

8,668 members

327 reviews

3.9

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

58

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,370 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

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

59

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,794 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

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

60

22,928 members

268 reviews

4

4 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

61

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,575 members

137 reviews

4

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

62

The Portrait of a Lady [Norton Critical Edition]

456 members

4 reviews

4.2

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

63

by John Dos Passos

1,710 members

14 reviews

4

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

64

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,686 members

780 reviews

4.2

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

65

by Marilynne Robinson

7,088 members

235 reviews

3.9

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66

by Jack Kerouac

30,678 members

424 reviews

½ 3.6

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

67

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

2,140 members

85 reviews

3.9

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

68

The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

3,215 members

64 reviews

4.2

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

69

Waiting for the barbarians

by J. M. Coetzee

4,892 members

83 reviews

4

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70

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

3,475 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

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

71

The Bottle Factory Outing

by Beryl Bainbridge

598 members

23 reviews

½ 3.3

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72

by Günter Grass

8,405 members

104 reviews

4

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73

Nightmare Abbey

by Thomas Love Peacock

483 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

74

28,750 members

665 reviews

3.9

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

75

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,895 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

2,883 members

72 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

78

The Periodic Table

4,505 members

74 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner

79

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

by Elizabeth Taylor

1,520 members

68 reviews

4.1

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80

by D. H. Lawrence

4,666 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

81

by William Faulkner

16,905 members

238 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, leslie.98, steller0707

82

by Kingsley Amis

6,372 members

161 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: oleonard, ahef1963, leslie.98

83

by George Eliot

4,187 members

61 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98

84

by Angela Carter

2,091 members

46 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

85

Money: A Suicide Note

3,591 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

86

American Pastoral

8,881 members

188 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom

87

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

9,691 members

249 reviews

4

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88

by W. G. Sebald

4,772 members

117 reviews

4.1

3 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98

89

The Black Sheep

by Honoré de Balzac

734 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

90

The Charterhouse of Parma

4,965 members

82 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

91

by Evelyn Waugh

4,218 members

93 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, leslie.98

92

by Samuel Beckett

976 members

21 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, leslie.98

93

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway

1,847 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

94

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

3,194 members

50 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

95

by Flannery O'Connor

4,391 members

124 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, steller0707

96

by Alasdair Gray

2,397 members

41 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

97

An Artist of the Floating World

by Kazuo Ishiguro

4,413 members

117 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

98

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

6,647 members

66 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

99

L. A. Confidential

by James Ellroy

3,712 members

42 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

100

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie

5,424 members

95 reviews

4

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