BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World

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As published on November 5, 2019 by BBC Arts: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/494P41NCbVYHlY319VwGbxp/explore-the-list-of-100-novels-that-shaped-our-world
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
76,599 members
1,420 reviews
½ 4.4
12 Members
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1984
by George Orwell
79,922 members
1,246 reviews
4.2
12 Members
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3
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
78,379 members
1,346 reviews
½ 4.4
10 Members
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5
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
52,689 members
754 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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6
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
49,457 members
449 reviews
½ 4.5
9 Members
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7
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
20,066 members
594 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
41,198 members
694 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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9
The Colour of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
21,430 members
432 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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Explanations
timtom: The list includes the entire Discworld Series.
10
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
20,149 members
426 reviews
3.8
8 Members
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11
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
48,543 members
736 reviews
½ 3.7
8 Members
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12
Regeneration
by Pat Barker
4,432 members
112 reviews
4
7 Members
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13
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
10,048 members
277 reviews
4
8 Members
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14
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
10,340 members
167 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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15
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
17,269 members
325 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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16
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,200 members
330 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
13,366 members
247 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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18
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
18,537 members
177 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
11,647 members
277 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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Explanations
timtom: The list includes the entire Sandman Series
20
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
7,307 members
162 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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21
Emily of New Moon
by L. M. Montgomery
3,966 members
72 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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22
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
34,754 members
305 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
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23
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
9,671 members
182 reviews
4
6 Members
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24
Harry Potter (Books 1-7)
by J. K. Rowling
11,739 members
170 reviews
½ 4.6
7 Members
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25
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
20,985 members
463 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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26
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,263 members
397 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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27
His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
13,969 members
202 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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28
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
5,664 members
219 reviews
4
6 Members
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29
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
27,451 members
486 reviews
4
6 Members
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30
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
10,682 members
270 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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31
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
7,868 members
177 reviews
4
6 Members
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32
A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,387 members
66 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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33
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
6,005 members
191 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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34
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
15,940 members
462 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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35
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
5,254 members
122 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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36
The Witches
by Roald Dahl
14,540 members
191 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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37
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
by Herman Melville
2,783 members
94 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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38
V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore
10,315 members
189 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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39
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
9,027 members
288 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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40
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
8,228 members
242 reviews
½ 3.5
5 Members
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41
Tales of the City
by Armistead Maupin
4,890 members
104 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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42
Ballet Shoes
by Noel Streatfeild
3,392 members
68 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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43
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
33,619 members
1,388 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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44
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
12,647 members
120 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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45
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
18,606 members
337 reviews
4
3 Members
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46
The Far Pavilions
by M. M. Kaye
2,348 members
66 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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47
The Earthsea Trilogy
by Ursula K. Le Guin
2,178 members
27 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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48
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
16,707 members
258 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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49
The Children of Men
by P. D. James
5,682 members
198 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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50
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
10,635 members
362 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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51
A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth
5,635 members
105 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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52
Dune
by Frank Herbert
40,741 members
649 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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53
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
62,231 members
3,449 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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54
A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
41,336 members
1,105 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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55
Unless
by Carol Shields
2,992 members
94 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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56
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
29,738 members
888 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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57
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
by Sue Townsend
3,501 members
61 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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58
American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
2,786 members
44 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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59
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
19,265 members
364 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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60
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
57,090 members
2,253 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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61
Home Fire
by Kamila Shamsie
1,659 members
78 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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62
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
16,880 members
526 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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63
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,142 members
167 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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64
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6,760 members
291 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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65
Small Island
by Andrea Levy
3,960 members
140 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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66
Riders
by Jilly Cooper
558 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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67
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
5,692 members
96 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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68
Habibi
by Craig Thompson
1,915 members
109 reviews
4
2 Members
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69
Strumpet City
by James Plunkett
300 members
5 reviews
4
2 Members
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70
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
20,293 members
667 reviews
4
2 Members
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71
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
13,443 members
240 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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72
The Moor's Last Sigh
by Salman Rushdie
3,651 members
35 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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73
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
5,133 members
248 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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74
American War
by Omar El Akkad
1,768 members
93 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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75
How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
1,538 members
47 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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76
Days without End
by Sebastian Barry
1,230 members
78 reviews
4
2 Members
aprille, kara.shamy
77
The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels, Volume 1, Books 1-4
by Patrick O'Brian
25 members
½ 3.7
Member
Cynfelyn
78
Eye of the Needle
by Ken Follett
5,231 members
92 reviews
4
2 Members
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79
Golden Child
by Claire Adam
304 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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80
Fugitive Pieces
by Anne Michaels
2,990 members
73 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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81
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
2,605 members
51 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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82
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
2,624 members
61 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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83
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
by Alan Sillitoe
1,037 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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84
Psmith, Journalist
by P. G. Wodehouse
886 members
15 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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85
The Country Girls
by Edna O'Brien
763 members
31 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
aprille, pamelad
86
Mr. Standfast
by John Buchan
634 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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87
Swami and Friends
by R. K. Narayan
465 members
6 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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88
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
5,486 members
268 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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89
So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell
1,655 members
65 reviews
3.9
Member
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90
The Passion
by Jeanette Winterson
3,572 members
55 reviews
4.1
Member
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91
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorde
1,796 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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92
The Forty Rules of Love
by Elif Shafak
1,356 members
74 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aprille
93
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
by Brian Moore
808 members
26 reviews
4
Member
aprille
94
The Slaves of Solitude
by Patrick Hamilton
689 members
17 reviews
4.1
Member
aprille
95
Cracking India
by Bapsi Sidhwa
598 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
aprille
96
City of Bohane
by Kevin Barry
503 members
26 reviews
3.8
Member
aprille
97
Astonishing the Gods
by Ben Okri
298 members
3 reviews
3
Member
aprille
98
Poor Cow
by Nell Dunn
147 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
aprille
99
Forever . . .
by Judy Blume
3,273 members
132 reviews
½ 3.5
100
Noughts and Crosses
by Malorie Blackman
2,141 members
67 reviews
3.8
Member
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Explanations
jain: I don't disagree about how influential it is, but it's just SO badly written.