The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English

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After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at his list https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/17/the-100-best-novels-written-in-english-the-full-list
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The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English
1
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
61,751 members
809 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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2
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
89,598 members
1,554 reviews
½ 4.4
7 Members
hipdeep, ironjaw, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, MaureenONeill
3
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
49,202 members
585 reviews
3.9
6 Members
hipdeep, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
82,572 members
1,299 reviews
3.8
6 Members
hipdeep, Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, MaureenONeill,Bluewolf0411
5
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
67,701 members
1,015 reviews
4.2
5 Members
Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, MaureenONeill,Bluewolf0411
6
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
32,436 members
532 reviews
4
5 Members
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7
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
24,029 members
324 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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8
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
93,859 members
1,445 reviews
4.2
5 Members
Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
9
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,905 members
167 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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10
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
16,329 members
201 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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11
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
56,646 members
809 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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12
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
38,936 members
516 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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13
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
7,238 members
191 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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14
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
20,651 members
367 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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15
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
27,664 members
365 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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16
The Sign of the Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
5,836 members
194 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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17
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,565 members
371 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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18
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41,620 members
416 reviews
½ 3.4
5 Members
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19
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,266 members
865 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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20
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
10,310 members
302 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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21
Emma
by Jane Austen
44,025 members
567 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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22
Joy in the Morning
by P. G. Wodehouse
2,398 members
41 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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23
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,558 members
558 reviews
4
4 Members
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24
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
12,041 members
273 reviews
4
4 Members
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25
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
9,386 members
164 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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26
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
20,323 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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27
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
15,132 members
247 reviews
4
4 Members
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28
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
28,883 members
360 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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29
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
11,194 members
157 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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30
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
5,968 members
205 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
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31
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,451 members
313 reviews
4
4 Members
Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
32
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
13,391 members
138 reviews
½ 3.4
4 Members
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33
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
5,627 members
101 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda, Gramercy5
34
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
50,825 members
812 reviews
3.8
3 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, MaureenONeill
35
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
41,112 members
681 reviews
4
4 Members
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36
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by Henry Fielding
8,986 members
104 reviews
3.9
3 Members
ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
37
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
46,908 members
746 reviews
4
3 Members
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38
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
33,020 members
471 reviews
4
3 Members
Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB
39
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
11,807 members
297 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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40
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
6,387 members
240 reviews
4
3 Members
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41
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
23,167 members
376 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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42
The Rainbow
by D. H. Lawrence
4,618 members
54 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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43
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
5,321 members
122 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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44
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,470 members
269 reviews
4
3 Members
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45
Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
by Samuel Richardson
1,592 members
29 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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46
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
8,090 members
133 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Bluewolf0411, NinieB
47
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
76,892 members
1,192 reviews
3.8
4 Members
Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411
48
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
20,942 members
191 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
49
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
15,924 members
334 reviews
4
4 Members
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50
An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
4,389 members
115 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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51
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,191 members
579 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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52
The Given Day
by Dennis Lehane
3,209 members
151 reviews
4
2 Members
aprille, Bluewolf0411
53
A River Runs Through It {story}
by Norman Maclean
1,039 members
29 reviews
4.1
2 Members
aprille, Bluewolf0411
54
Hadrian the Seventh
by Frederick Rolfe
896 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
55
Five Decembers
by James Kestrel
495 members
26 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
aprille, Bluewolf0411
56
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
9,687 members
145 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Bluewolf0411, NinieB
57
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
41,513 members
615 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda
58
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1,924 members
90 reviews
3.8
2 Members
NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
59
Murphy
by Samuel Beckett
1,827 members
26 reviews
3.8
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
60
The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope
3,195 members
64 reviews
4.2
2 Members
NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
61
Nightmare Abbey
by Thomas Love Peacock
484 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
62
Sybil, or The Two Nations
by Benjamin Disraeli
835 members
6 reviews
3.1
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
63
New Grub Street
by George Gissing
1,591 members
27 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
64
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
10,171 members
215 reviews
3.8
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
65
The Golden Bowl
by Henry James
3,051 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
66
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
22,834 members
345 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
67
The History of Mr. Polly
by H. G. Wells
919 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
68
Zuleika Dobson
by Max Beerbohm
1,845 members
37 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
69
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,584 members
423 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda
70
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
8,538 members
125 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
71
U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos
1,705 members
14 reviews
4
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
72
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
9,788 members
146 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
73
Party Going
by Henry Green
341 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
74
At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
3,629 members
74 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
75
The Heat of the Day
by Elizabeth Bowen
1,223 members
33 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
76
Voss
by Patrick White
1,571 members
27 reviews
4
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
77
A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
2,606 members
95 reviews
4
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
78
Rabbit Redux
by John Updike
2,675 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
79
A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
3,471 members
59 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
80
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,577 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
81
The Beginning of Spring
by Penelope Fitzgerald
921 members
25 reviews
3.8
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
82
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
4,524 members
78 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
83
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,853 members
189 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
84
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
8,757 members
89 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
85
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,548 members
414 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
86
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,939 members
515 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
87
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
8,019 members
162 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
88
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
7,063 members
236 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
89
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
4,757 members
85 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
90
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,122 members
632 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411
91
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe
2,567 members
56 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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92
Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
8,636 members
327 reviews
3.9
Member
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93
Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
4,378 members
67 reviews
3.8
Member
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94
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
16,824 members
238 reviews
3.9
Member
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95
Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh
4,208 members
92 reviews
3.8
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96
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
12,581 members
131 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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97
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,980 members
101 reviews
3.8
Member
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98
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
4,231 members
80 reviews
3.8
Member
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99
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
6,009 members
99 reviews
½ 3.6
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100
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
by Elizabeth Taylor
1,520 members
68 reviews
4.1
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