The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

Jan 01, 2003 13:40

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time

All the books I've read are in bold.
  1. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
  2. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  3. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  4. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  5. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
  6. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
  7. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
  8. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
  9. Emma - Jane Austen
  10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  11. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
  12. The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac
  13. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
  14. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  15. Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli
  16. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  17. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  18. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  19. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  20. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  21. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
  22. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  23. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  25. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
  26. The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
  27. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  28. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
  29. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  30. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
  31. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  33. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
  34. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  35. The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
  36. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
  37. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
  38. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
  39. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
  40. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  41. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
  42. The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
  43. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
  44. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
  45. Ulysses - James Joyce
  46. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  47. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
  48. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  49. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  50. Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway
  51. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  52. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  53. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  54. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
  55. USA - John Dos Passos
  56. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
  57. The Pursuit Of Love - Nancy Mitford
  58. The Plague - Albert Camus
  59. Nineteen Eighty-Four -George Orwell
  60. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
  61. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  62. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
  63. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
  64. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
  65. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
  66. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  67. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
  68. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  69. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  70. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
  71. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
  73. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  74. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  75. Herzog - Saul Bellow
  76. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
  78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
  79. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
  80. The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
  81. The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
  82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
  83. A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul
  84. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
  85. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
  86. Lanark - Alasdair Gray
  87. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
  88. The BFG - Roald Dahl
  89. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
  90. Money - Martin Amis
  91. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
  92. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
  93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
  94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories - Salman Rushdie
  95. LA Confidential - James Ellroy
  96. Wise Children - Angela Carter
  97. Atonement - Ian McEwan
  98. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
  99. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
  100. Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald

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