The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

Given by The Guardian

Other Names: 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, Guardian 1000
998 Works 6,993,415 Books 130,386 Reviews ½ 4.0
The Guardian is a UK newspaper which, with its sister Sunday paper The Observer, published this list as a set of supplements over a one-week period early in 2009. As described by the Guardian: show more "This list… includes only novels —no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems — from any decade in any language."

The list actually contains only 998 books.
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Categories:
All, Comedy (149), Crime (147), Family and Self (146), Love (141), Science Fiction and Fantasy (149), State of the Nation (134), War and Travel (132)
Year Awarded:
2009
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Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
Comedy
The Information (1995) by Martin Amis
Comedy
Money: A Suicide Note (1984) by Martin Amis
Comedy
According to Queeney (2001) by Beryl Bainbridge
Comedy
The Bottle Factory Outing (1974) by Beryl Bainbridge
Comedy
Flaubert's Parrot (1984) by Julian Barnes
Comedy
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989) by Julian Barnes
Comedy
Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (1924) by Henry Howarth Bashford
Comedy
Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett
Comedy
Zuleika Dobson (1911) by Max Beerbohm
Comedy
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow
Comedy
The Uncommon Reader (2006) by Alan Bennett
Comedy
Queen Lucia (1920) by E. F. Benson
Comedy
The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956) by W. E. Bowman
Comedy
A Good Man in Africa (1981) by William Boyd
Comedy
The History Man (1975) by Malcolm Bradbury
Comedy
No Bed for Bacon (1941) by Caryl Brahms
Comedy
Illywhacker (1985) by Peter Carey
Comedy
The Hearing Trumpet (1967) by Leonora Carrington
Comedy
The Harpole Report (1972) by J. L. Carr
Comedy
A Season in Sinji (1967) by J. L. Carr
Comedy
The Horse's Mouth (1957) by Joyce Cary
Comedy
Mister Johnson (1949) by Joyce Cary
Comedy
Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Comedy
The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944) by Edmund Crispin
Comedy
Just William (1922) by Richmal Crompton
Comedy
Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930) by E.M. Delafield
Comedy
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (1983) by Peter De Vries
Comedy
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843) by Charles Dickens
Comedy
The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens
Comedy
Jacques the Fatalist (1796) by Denis Diderot
Comedy
A Fairy Tale of New York (1973) by J. P. Donleavy
Comedy
The Commitments (1987) by Roddy Doyle
Comedy
Ennui (1809) by Maria Edgeworth
Comedy
Cheese (1933) by Willem Elsschot
Comedy
Venus on the Half-Shell (1974) by Philip José Farmer
Comedy
Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) by Helen Fielding
Comedy
Joseph Andrews (1742) by Henry Fielding
Comedy
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
Comedy
Caprice (1917) by Ronald Firbank
Comedy
Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881) by Gustave Flaubert
Comedy
Towards the End of the Morning (1967) by Michael Frayn
Comedy
The Polyglots (1925) by William Gerhardie
Comedy
Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons
Comedy
The dead souls (1842) by Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
Comedy
Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov
Comedy
The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
Comedy
Our Man in Havana (1958) by Graham Greene
Comedy
Travels with My Aunt (1969) by Graham Greene
Comedy
Squire Haggard's Journal (Prion Humour Classics) (1975) by Michael Green
Comedy
The Diary of a Nobody (1892) by George Grossmith
Comedy
The Little World of Don Camillo (1948) by Giovannino Guareschi
Comedy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon
Comedy
Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
Comedy
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1946) by Eric Hodgins
Comedy
High Fidelity (1995) by Nick Hornby
Comedy
I Served the King of England (1971) by Bohumil Hrabal
Comedy
The Lecturer's Tale (2001) by James Hynes
Comedy
Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) by Christopher Isherwood
Comedy
The Mighty Walzer (2000) by Howard Jacobson
Comedy
Pictures from an Institution (1954) by Randall Jarrell
Comedy
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome
Comedy
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce
Comedy
The Castle (1925) by Franz Kafka
Comedy
Lake Wobegon Days (1985) by Garrison Keillor
Comedy
Death and the Penguin (2001) by Andreï Kourkov
Comedy
The Debt to Pleasure (1996) by John Lanchester
Comedy
Gil Blas (1715) by Alain René Le Sage
Comedy
Changing Places (1975) by David Lodge
Comedy
Nice Work (1988) by David Lodge
Comedy
The Towers of Trebizond (1956) by Rose Macaulay
Comedy
England, Their England (1933) by A. G. Macdonell
Comedy
Whisky Galore (1947) by Compton Mackenzie
Comedy
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (1995) by David Madsen
Comedy
Cakes and Ale (1934) by W. Somerset Maugham
Comedy
Tales of the City (1978) by Armistead Maupin
Comedy
Brewster's Millions (1903) by George Barr McCutcheon
Comedy
Bright Lights, Big City (1984) by Jay McInerney
Comedy
Puckoon (1963) by Spike Milligan
Comedy
The Restraint of Beasts (1998) by Magnus Mills
Comedy
Charade (1986) by John Mortimer
Comedy
Titmuss Regained (1990) by John Mortimer
Comedy
Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch
Comedy
Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
Comedy
Pnin (1953) by Vladimir Nabokov
Comedy
Fireflies (1970) by Shiva Naipaul
Comedy
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2004) by Viktor Pelevin
Comedy
Life: A User's Manual (1978) by Georges Perec
Comedy
Les Revenentes (1972) by Georges Perec
Comedy
A Void (1994) by Georges Perec
Comedy
My Search for Warren Harding (1983) by Robert Plunket
Comedy
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring (1962) by Anthony Powell
Comedy
A Time to Be Born (1942) by Dawn Powell
Comedy
Excellent Women (1952) by Barbara Pym
Comedy
Less Than Angels (1955) by Barbara Pym
Comedy
Zazie in the Metro (1959) by Raymond Queneau
Comedy
Alms for Oblivion, Volume 1 (1998) by Simon Raven
Comedy
Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989) by Mordecai Richler
Comedy
Portnoy's Complaint (1967) by Philip Roth
Comedy
The Unbearable Bassington (1912) by Saki
Comedy
The Westminster Alice (1912) by Saki
Comedy
Hurrah for St. Trinian's and Other Lapses (1948) by Ronald Searle
Comedy
Great Apes (1997) by Will Self
Comedy
Blott on the Landscape (1975) by Tom Sharpe
Comedy
Porterhouse Blue (1974) by Tom Sharpe
Comedy
Office Politics (1656) by Wilfrid Sheed
Comedy
The Belles Lettres Papers (1987) by Charles Simmons
Comedy
Moo (1995) by Jane Smiley
Comedy
Topper Takes a Trip (1932) by Thorne Smith
Comedy
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) by Tobias Smollett
Comedy
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle {complete} (1751) by Tobias Smollett
Comedy
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) by Tobias Smollett
Comedy
Roderick Random (1748) by Tobias Smollett
Comedy
The Driver's Seat (1970) by Muriel Spark
Comedy
A Far Cry from Kensington (1988) by Muriel Spark
Comedy
The Girls of Slender Means (1963) by Muriel Spark
Comedy
Loitering with Intent (1981) by Muriel Spark
Comedy
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
Comedy
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
Comedy
White Man Falling (2006) by Mike Stocks
Comedy
Handley Cross (1843) by R. S. Surtees
Comedy
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (1704) by Jonathan Swift
Comedy
Penrod (1914) by Booth Tarkington
Comedy
Barry Lyndon (1844) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Comedy
Before Lunch (1939) by Angela Thirkell
Comedy
Tropic of Ruislip (1974) by Leslie Thomas
Comedy
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole
Comedy
Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope
Comedy
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (1922) by Mark Twain
Comedy
The Witches of Eastwick (1984) by John Updike
Comedy
Breakfast of Champions (1974) by Kurt Vonnegut
Comedy
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
Comedy
Black Mischief (1932) by Evelyn Waugh
Comedy
Decline and Fall (1928) by Evelyn Waugh
Comedy
A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh
Comedy
The Loved One (1948) by Evelyn Waugh
Comedy
Scoop (1938) by Evelyn Waugh
Comedy
Vile Bodies (1930) by Evelyn Waugh
Comedy
The Life and Loves of a She Devil (1983) by Fay Weldon
Comedy
Tono-Bungay (1909) by H. G. Wells
Comedy
The Compleet Molesworth (1958) by Geoffrey Willans
Comedy
The Wimbledon Poisoner (1990) by Nigel Williams
Comedy
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) by Angus Wilson
Comedy
The Code of the Woosters (1938) by P. G. Wodehouse
Comedy
Heavy Weather (1933) by P. G. Wodehouse
Comedy
Joy in the Morning (1947) by P. G. Wodehouse
Comedy
Piccadilly Jim (1917) by P. G. Wodehouse
Comedy
Something Fresh (1915) by P. G. Wodehouse
Comedy
Thank You, Jeeves (1934) by P. G. Wodehouse
Comedy
The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) by Nelson Algren
Crime
Fantômas (1911) by Marcel Allain
Crime
Epitaph for a Spy (1938) by Eric Ambler
Crime
Journey into Fear (1940) by Eric Ambler
Crime
The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) by Eric Ambler
Crime
The New York Trilogy (1985) by Paul Auster
Crime
Trent's Last Case (1913) by E. C. Bentley
Crime
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) by Anthony Berkeley
Crime
The Beast Must Die (1938) by Nicholas Blake
Crime
Lady Audley's Secret (1862) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Crime
Greenmantle (1916) by John Buchan
Crime
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
Crime
The Neon Rain (1987) by James Lee Burke
Crime
The Tin Roof Blowdown (2007) by James Lee Burke
Crime
The Asphalt Jungle (1949) by W. R. Burnett
Crime
Double Indemnity (1936) by James M. Cain
Crime
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
Crime
True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) by Peter Carey
Crime
The Three Coffins (1935) by John Dickson Carr
Crime
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
Crime
The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler
Crime
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939) by James Hadley Chase
Crime
The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers
Crime
And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie
Crime
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) by Agatha Christie
Crime
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
Crime
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie
Crime
The Secret Adversary (1922) by Agatha Christie
Crime
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
Crime
The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins
Crime
The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
Crime
The Secret Agent (1907) by Joseph Conrad
Crime
Under Western Eyes (1911) by Joseph Conrad
Crime
Postmortem (1990) by Patricia Cornwell
Crime
The Andromeda Strain (1969) by Michael Crichton
Crime
Jurassic Park (1990) by Michael Crichton
Crime
Poetic Justice (1970) by Amanda Cross
Crime
The Ipcress File (1962) by Len Deighton
Crime
Last Seen Wearing (1976) by Colin Dexter
Crime
The Remorseful Day (1999) by Colin Dexter
Crime
Dead Lagoon (1994) by Michael Dibdin
Crime
Dirty Tricks (1991) by Michael Dibdin
Crime
Ratking (1988) by Michael Dibdin
Crime
A Rich Full Death (1986) by Michael Dibdin
Crime
Vendetta (1990) by Michael Dibdin
Crime
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime
The Sign of Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime
A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
Crime
The Pledge (1958) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Crime
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
Crime
My Cousin Rachel (1951) by Daphne Du Maurier
Crime
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
Crime
American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis
Crime
A Quiet Belief in Angels (2007) by R.J. Ellory
Crime
The Big Nowhere (1988) by James Ellroy
Crime
L. A. Confidential (1990) by James Ellroy
Crime
Sanctuary (1931) by William Faulkner
Crime
Casino Royale (1953) by Ian Fleming
Crime
Goldfinger (1959) by Ian Fleming
Crime
You Only Live Twice (1964) by Ian Fleming
Crime
The Day of the Jackal (1971) by Frederick Forsyth
Crime
Brighton Rock (1938) by Graham Greene
Crime
A Gun for Sale (1936) by Graham Greene
Crime
The Ministry of Fear (1943) by Graham Greene
Crime
The Third Man (1949) by Graham Greene
Crime
The King of Torts (2003) by John Grisham
Crime
A Time to Kill (1989) by John Grisham
Crime
Hangover Square (1941) by Patrick Hamilton
Crime
The Glass Key (1931) by Dashiell Hammett
Crime
The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett
Crime
Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
Crime
The Thin Man (1934) by Dashiell Hammett
Crime
Fatherland (1992) by Robert Harris
Crime
Black Sunday (1975) by Thomas Harris
Crime
Red Dragon (1981) by Thomas Harris
Crime
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1992) by Peter Høeg
Crime
Tourist Season (1986) by Carl Hiaasen
Crime
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1971) by George V. Higgins
Crime
Strangers on a Train (1950) by Patricia Highsmith
Crime
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
Crime
Bones and Silence (1990) by Reginald Hill
Crime
A Rage in Harlem (1957) by Chester Himes
Crime
Rogue Male (1939) by Geoffrey Household
Crime
Malice Aforethought (1931) by Francis Iles
Crime
Silence of the Grave (2002) by Arnaldur Indridason
Crime
Death at the President's Lodging (1936) by Michael Innes
Crime
Cover Her Face (1962) by P. D. James
Crime
A Taste for Death (1986) by P. D. James
Crime
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (1964) by Harry Kemelman
Crime
Dolores Claiborne (1992) by Stephen King
Crime
Misery (1987) by Stephen King
Crime
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
Crime
The Constant Gardener (2001) by John le Carré
Crime
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) by John le Carré
Crime
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) by John le Carré
Crime
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
Crime
52 Pick-Up (1974) by Elmore Leonard
Crime
Get Shorty (1990) by Elmore Leonard
Crime
Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem
Crime
The Bourne Identity (1980) by Robert Ludlum
Crime
Sidetracked (1995) by Henning Mankell
Crime
Cop Hater (1956) by Ed McBain
Crime
No Country for Old Men (2005) by Cormac McCarthy
Crime
Enduring Love (1997) by Ian McEwan
Crime
Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) by Walter Mosley
Crime
The Great Impersonation (1920) by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Crime
The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent (1934) by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Crime
My Name Is Red (1998) by Orhan Pamuk
Crime
Blacklist (2003) by Sara Paretsky
Crime
Blood Shot (1988) by Sara Paretsky
Crime
Nineteen Seventy Four (1999) by David Peace
Crime
Nineteen Seventy Seven (2000) by David Peace
Crime
The Big Blowdown (1996) by George Pelecanos
Crime
Hard Revolution (2004) by George P. Pelecanos
Crime
Lush Life (2008) by Richard Price
Crime
The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo
Crime
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
Crime
V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
Crime
The Crime of Father Amaro (1875) by José Maria Eça de Queirós
Crime
Black and Blue (1997) by Ian Rankin
Crime
Exit Music (2007) by Ian Rankin
Crime
The Hanging Garden (1998) by Ian Rankin
Crime
A Judgement in Stone (1977) by Ruth Rendell
Crime
Live Flesh (1985) by Ruth Rendell
Crime
Dissolution (2003) by C. J. Sansom
Crime
Murder Must Advertise (1933) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Crime
Whose Body? (1923) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Crime
The Blue Room (1964) by Georges Simenon
Crime
The Madman of Bergerac (1932) by Georges Simenon
Crime
The Laughing Policeman (1970) by Maj Sjöwall
Crime
Gorky Park (1981) by Marin Cruz Smith
Crime
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) by Patrick Süskind
Crime
Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
Crime
The League of Frightened Men (1935) by Rex Stout
Crime
The Secret History (1992) by Donna Tartt
Crime
The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey
Crime
The Getaway (1959) by Jim Thompson
Crime
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) by Mark Twain
Crime
A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) by Barbara Vine
Crime
A Fatal Inversion (1987) by Barbara Vine
Crime
King Solomon's Carpet (1991) by Barbara Vine
Crime
The Law of the Four Just Men (1905) by Edgar Wallace
Crime
Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters
Crime
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
Crime
Thérèse Raquin (1867) by Émile Zola
Crime
The Face of Another (1966) by Kōbō Abe
Family and Self
Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
Family and Self
Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995) by Kate Atkinson
Family and Self
Cat's Eye (1988) by Margaret Atwood
Family and Self
Room Temperature (1990) by Nicholson Baker
Family and Self
Eugénie Grandet (1833) by Honoré de Balzac
Family and Self
Old Goriot (1835) by Honoré de Balzac
Family and Self
The Crow Road (1992) by Iain Banks
Family and Self
The L-Shaped Room (1960) by Lynne Reid Banks
Family and Self
Epileptic (2005) by David B.
Family and Self
The Mandarins (1956) by Simone de Beauvoir
Family and Self
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) by Alison Bechdel
Family and Self
Malone Dies (1951) by Samuel Beckett
Family and Self
A Legacy (1956) by Sybille Bedford
Family and Self
Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
Family and Self
Humboldt's Gift (1973) by Saul Bellow
Family and Self
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) by Arnold Bennett
Family and Self
G. (1972) by John Berger
Family and Self
Extinction (1986) by Thomas Bernhard
Family and Self
Two Serious Ladies (1943) by Jane Bowles
Family and Self
Any Human Heart (2002) by William Boyd
Family and Self
The Death of Virgil (1945) by Hermann Broch
Family and Self
Evelina (1778) by Frances Burney
Family and Self
The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler
Family and Self
The Sound of My Voice (1987) by Ron Butlin
Family and Self
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
Family and Self
Wise Children (1991) by Angela Carter
Family and Self
The Professor's House (1925) by Willa Cather
Family and Self
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) by John Cheever
Family and Self
The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
Family and Self
The Holy Terrors (1929) by Jean Cocteau
Family and Self
The Vagabond (1910) by Colette
Family and Self
Manservant and Maidservant (1947) by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Family and Self
Being Dead (1999) by Jim Crace
Family and Self
Quarantine (1997) by Jim Crace
Family and Self
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724) by Daniel Defoe
Family and Self
Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens
Family and Self
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Family and Self
My New York Diary (1999) by Julie Doucet
Family and Self
The Millstone (1965) by Margaret Drabble
Family and Self
My Family and Other Animals (1953) by Gerald Durrell
Family and Self
Silence (1966) by Shūsaku Endō
Family and Self
The Gathering (2007) by Anne Enright
Family and Self
Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides
Family and Self
As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
Family and Self
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
Family and Self
The Sportswriter (1986) by Richard Ford
Family and Self
Howards End (1910) by E. M. Forster
Family and Self
Spies (2002) by Michael Frayn
Family and Self
Hideous Kinky (1992) by Esther Freud
Family and Self
The Man of Property (1906) by John Galsworthy
Family and Self
Mary Barton (1848) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Family and Self
The Immoralist (1902) by André Gide
Family and Self
The Vatican Cellars (1914) by André Gide
Family and Self
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith
Family and Self
The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
Family and Self
Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun
Family and Self
The Shrimp and the Anemone (1945) by L. P. Hartley
Family and Self
The Old Man and the Sea (1950) by Ernest Hemingway
Family and Self
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) by Hermann Hesse
Family and Self
Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse
Family and Self
The Three Paradoxes (2007) by Paul Hornschemeier
Family and Self
Tom Brown's School Days (1857) by Thomas Hughes
Family and Self
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) by John Irving
Family and Self
The Ambassadors (1903) by Henry James
Family and Self
Washington Square (1880) by Henry James
Family and Self
The Tortoise and the Hare (1954) by Elizabeth Jenkins
Family and Self
The Unfortunates (1969) by B. S. Johnson
Family and Self
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
Family and Self
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
Family and Self
Good Behaviour (1981) by Molly Keane
Family and Self
Memed, My Hawk (1955) by Yaşar Kemal
Family and Self
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
Family and Self
The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) by Hanif Kureishi
Family and Self
Sons and Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
Family and Self
Cider with Rosie (1959) by Laurie Lee
Family and Self
Invitation to the Waltz (1932) by Rosamond Lehmann
Family and Self
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
Family and Self
How Green Was My Valley (1939) by Richard Llewellyn
Family and Self
Martin Eden (1909) by Jack London
Family and Self
Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
Family and Self
Palace Walk (1956) by Naguib Mahfouz
Family and Self
The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud
Family and Self
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1924) by Thomas Mann
Family and Self
The Chateau (1961) by William Maxwell
Family and Self
The Rector's Daughter (1924) by F. M. Mayor
Family and Self
The Member of the Wedding (1946) by Carson McCullers
Family and Self
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) by George Meredith
Family and Self
Family Matters (2002) by Rohinton Mistry
Family and Self
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955) by Brian Moore
Family and Self
The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison
Family and Self
Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison
Family and Self
Sour Sweet (1982) by Timothy Mo
Family and Self
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose (1977) by Alice Munro
Family and Self
The Black Prince (1973) by Iris Murdoch
Family and Self
The Man Without Qualities (1930) by Robert Musil
Family and Self
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) by V. S. Naipaul
Family and Self
At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien
Family and Self
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels (1969) by Kenzaburō Ōe
Family and Self
The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy
Family and Self
The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath
Family and Self
My Name Is Asher Lev (1972) by Chaim Potok
Family and Self
The Good Companions (1929) by J. B. Priestley
Family and Self
The Shipping News (1993) by E. Annie Proulx
Family and Self
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
Family and Self
Married Man (1979) by Piers Paul Read
Family and Self
Pointed Roofs (1915) by Dorothy Miller Richardson
Family and Self
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1917) by Henry Handel Richardson
Family and Self
Call It Sleep (1934) by Henry Roth
Family and Self
Julie, or, The New Héloise (1761) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Family and Self
The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy
Family and Self
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
Family and Self
Alberta and Jacob (1926) by Cora Sandel
Family and Self
A Suitable Boy (1993) by Vikram Seth
Family and Self
Unless (2002) by Carol Shields
Family and Self
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) by Lionel Shriver
Family and Self
The Three Sisters (1914) by May Sinclair
Family and Self
The Family Moskat (1950) by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Family and Self
A Thousand Acres (1991) by Jane Smiley
Family and Self
On Beauty (2005) by Zadie Smith
Family and Self
The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead
Family and Self
East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck
Family and Self
Ballet Shoes (1936) by Noel Streatfeild
Family and Self
Zeno's Conscience (1930) by Italo Svevo
Family and Self
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) by Booth Tarkington
Family and Self
Angel (1957) by Elizabeth Taylor
Family and Self
Lark Rise to Candleford (1945) by Flora Thompson
Family and Self
The Blackwater Lightship (1999) by Colm Tóibín
Family and Self
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (1982) by Sue Townsend
Family and Self
Death in Summer (1998) by William Trevor
Family and Self
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
Family and Self
Peace in War (1897) by Miguel de Unamuno
Family and Self
A Rabbit Omnibus (1991) by John Updike
Family and Self
The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
Family and Self
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) by Chris Ware
Family and Self
Morvern Callar (1995) by Alan Warner
Family and Self
The History of Mr. Polly (1910) by H. G. Wells
Family and Self
The Fountain Overflows (1956) by Rebecca West
Family and Self
Frost in May (1933) by Antonia White
Family and Self
The Tree of Man (1955) by Patrick White
Family and Self
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
Family and Self
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson
Family and Self
I'll Go to Bed at Noon (2004) by Gerard Woodward
Family and Self
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
Family and Self
To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
Family and Self
The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) by Johann David Wyss
Family and Self
Le Grand Meaulnes (1959) by Alain-Fournier
Love
Emma (1815) by Jane Austen
Love
Mansfield Park (1814) by Jane Austen
Love
Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen
Love
Persuasion (1817) by Jane Austen
Love
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
Love
Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen
Love
Giovanni's Room (1956) by James Baldwin
Love
Nightwood (1936) by Djuna Barnes
Love
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Giorgio Bassani
Love
Love for Lydia (1952) by H. E. Bates
Love
More Die of Heartbreak (1987) by Saul Bellow
Love
Lorna Doone (1869) by R. D. Blackmore
Love
The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen
Love
The Heat of the Day (1948) by Elizabeth Bowen
Love
Villette (1853) by Charlotte Brontë
Love
Jane Eyre (1960) by Charlotte Brontë
Love
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
Love
Look at Me (1981) by Anita Brookner
Love
Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) by Rita Mae Brown
Love
Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
Love
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) by Truman Capote
Love
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey
Love
A Month in the Country (1980) by J. L. Carr
Love
A Lost Lady (1923) by Willa Cather
Love
My Ántonia (1918) by Willa Cather
Love
Chéri (1920) by Colette
Love
Claudine at School (1900) by Colette
Love
Victory (1915) by Joseph Conrad
Love
The Parasites (1949) by Daphne Du Maurier
Love
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
Love
The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras
Love
Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot
Love
Daniel Deronda (1876) by George Eliot
Love
The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot
Love
The Virgin Suicides (1993) by Jeffrey Eugenides
Love
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
The Blue Flower (1995) by Penelope Fitzgerald
Love
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
Love
The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
Love
A Room with a View (1908) by E. M. Forster
Love
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
Love
The Snow Goose (1940) by Paul Gallico
Love
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love
Ruth (1853) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Love
Sunset Song (1932) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Love
Strait is the Gate (1924) by André Gide
Love
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
The End of the Affair (1951) by Graham Greene
Love
Living (1929) by Henry Green
Love
The Well of Loneliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall
Love
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy
Love
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
Love
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
Love
The Woodlanders (1887) by Thomas Hardy
Love
The Go-Between (1953) by L. P. Hartley
Love
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love

Descriptions

The Guardian is a UK newspaper which, with its sister Sunday paper The Observer, published this list as a set of supplements over a one-week period early in 2009. As described by the Guardian: "This list… includes only novels —no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems — from any decade in any language."

The list actually contains only 998 books.

(English, Member-written)

The list actually contains only 998 books: 149 Comedy, 147 Crime, 146 Family and self, 141 Love, 149 Science fiction and fantasy, 134 State of the nation, 132 War and travel.

(English, Technical/disambiguation notice)
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction

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