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