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The Guardian's 100 greatest novels of all time

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35,680 members

489 reviews

4.1

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2

by Mary Shelley

39,242 members

673 reviews

3.8

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3

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,181 members

328 reviews

4.1

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4

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

48,357 members

659 reviews

3.9

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5

To Kill a Mockingbird

74,151 members

1,404 reviews

½ 4.4

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6

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

25,035 members

454 reviews

4

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7

by Charlotte Brontë

55,528 members

882 reviews

4.2

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8

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,189 members

309 reviews

½ 3.6

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9

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

67,927 members

1,103 reviews

3.9

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10

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

11,833 members

130 reviews

3.8

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11

The Picture of Dorian Gray

36,946 members

602 reviews

4

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12

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

77,221 members

1,223 reviews

4.2

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13

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

28,783 members

420 reviews

4.1

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14

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

51,161 members

740 reviews

3.9

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15

The Annotated Huckleberry Finn

308 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

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16

by Raymond Chandler

9,754 members

271 reviews

4

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17

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,309 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

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18

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,039 members

189 reviews

3.9

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19

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

34,540 members

355 reviews

½ 3.4

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20

The New York Trilogy

9,438 members

154 reviews

3.9

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21

by Gustave Flaubert

24,919 members

370 reviews

½ 3.7

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22

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)

by Philip Pullman

34,457 members

721 reviews

4.1

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23

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

48,248 members

448 reviews

½ 4.5

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24

The Call of the Wild

18,497 members

303 reviews

3.8

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25

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

66,473 members

1,047 reviews

3.8

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26

The Thirty-Nine Steps

5,122 members

177 reviews

½ 3.5

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27

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,061 members

323 reviews

4.1

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28

by Albert Camus

17,525 members

230 reviews

4

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29

by Henry Fielding

7,759 members

89 reviews

3.9

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30

by Virginia Woolf

19,396 members

310 reviews

3.9

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31

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,019 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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32

Little Women / Good Wives

by Louisa May Alcott

13,670 members

200 reviews

4.1

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33

36,318 members

604 reviews

4.1

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34

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,480 members

251 reviews

4.1

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35

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

4,959 members

162 reviews

½ 3.7

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36

by Joseph Heller

38,263 members

503 reviews

4.1

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37

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,597 members

100 reviews

3.8

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38

17,882 members

301 reviews

4.1

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39

by Joseph Conrad

4,546 members

53 reviews

3.8

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40

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,501 members

414 reviews

3.8

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41

by Herman Melville

33,225 members

513 reviews

3.8

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42

Charlotte's Web

34,060 members

997 reviews

4.2

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43

The Pilgrim's Progress

17,550 members

154 reviews

½ 3.7

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44

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

11,884 members

250 reviews

4.1

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45

22,860 members

328 reviews

4

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

46

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

7,669 members

174 reviews

4

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47

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,414 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

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48

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,409 members

109 reviews

3.9

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

49

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

46,912 members

718 reviews

½ 3.7

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50

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,392 members

536 reviews

4.1

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51

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,730 members

133 reviews

3.9

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52

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

27,750 members

308 reviews

½ 4.4

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

53

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,176 members

83 reviews

4.1

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54

The Diary of a Nobody

by George Grossmith

3,153 members

86 reviews

½ 3.7

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55

4,996 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

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56

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,354 members

275 reviews

3.9

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57

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

23,722 members

399 reviews

½ 4.3

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

58

18,965 members

226 reviews

4

4 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

59

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,242 members

119 reviews

4

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

60

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,731 members

42 reviews

½ 4.5

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61

by John Dos Passos

1,411 members

14 reviews

4

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

62

by Jack Kerouac

26,860 members

369 reviews

½ 3.6

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

63

by Kingsley Amis

5,604 members

147 reviews

½ 3.7

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

64

The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

2,710 members

56 reviews

4.2

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

65

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

1,795 members

66 reviews

3.9

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

66

The Portrait of a Lady [Norton Critical Edition]

397 members

4 reviews

4.2

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67

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

42,453 members

660 reviews

4.2

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

68

Waiting for the Barbarians

by J. M. Coetzee

4,136 members

75 reviews

4

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69

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

3,089 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

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70

The Bottle Factory Outing

by Beryl Bainbridge

530 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

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

71

by Günter Grass

7,326 members

90 reviews

4

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

72

25,247 members

612 reviews

3.9

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

73

by Marilynne Robinson

6,046 members

201 reviews

3.9

4 Members: oleonard, ahef1963, leslie.98, steller0707

74

Nightmare Abbey

by Thomas Love Peacock

410 members

14 reviews

½ 3.4

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75

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

5,769 members

77 reviews

4.2

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76

Oscar and Lucinda

4,005 members

62 reviews

3.8

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

77

Sybil, or The Two Nations

by Benjamin Disraeli

724 members

5 reviews

3.2

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78

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

2,484 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

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79

by Samuel Beckett

817 members

17 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

80

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie

4,643 members

79 reviews

4

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81

The Periodic Table

3,804 members

66 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner

82

by D. H. Lawrence

3,956 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

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83

by William Faulkner

14,074 members

209 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, leslie.98, steller0707

84

by George Eliot

3,568 members

46 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98

85

by Angela Carter

1,852 members

41 reviews

4

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86

American Pastoral

7,742 members

171 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom

87

Money: A Suicide Note

3,147 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

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88

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

7,929 members

220 reviews

4

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89

by W. G. Sebald

3,920 members

90 reviews

4.2

3 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98

90

by Evelyn Waugh

3,629 members

80 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, leslie.98

91

The Black Sheep

by Honoré de Balzac

612 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

92

The Charterhouse of Parma

4,174 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

93

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway

1,506 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

94

by Flannery O'Connor

3,648 members

113 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, steller0707

95

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

2,774 members

49 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

96

by Alasdair Gray

1,936 members

36 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

97

An Artist of the Floating World

by Kazuo Ishiguro

3,653 members

99 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

98

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

5,925 members

58 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

99

L. A. Confidential

by James Ellroy

3,279 members

36 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

100

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

by Elizabeth Taylor

1,141 members

54 reviews

4.1

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