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The Guardian's 100 greatest novels of all time

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38,250 members

506 reviews

4.1

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2

by Mary Shelley

42,952 members

714 reviews

3.8

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3

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,860 members

338 reviews

4.1

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4

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,322 members

708 reviews

3.9

10 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,928 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

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6

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,344 members

482 reviews

4

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7

by Charlotte Brontë

59,363 members

924 reviews

4.2

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8

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,585 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

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9

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,363 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

10

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,791 members

638 reviews

4

9 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda

11

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,514 members

142 reviews

3.8

9 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by George Orwell

82,452 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

9 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

13

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,672 members

453 reviews

4.1

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14

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,176 members

774 reviews

3.9

9 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

15

The Annotated Huckleberry Finn

328 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

7 Members: hipdeep, oleonard, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana

16

by Raymond Chandler

10,343 members

285 reviews

4

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,232 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,764 members

193 reviews

3.9

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,791 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

8 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

by Gustave Flaubert

26,348 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, Cubanana, steller0707

21

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,374 members

744 reviews

4.1

7 Members: oleonard, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,628 members

452 reviews

½ 4.5

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23

The Thirty-Nine Steps

5,420 members

190 reviews

½ 3.5

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24

The Call of the Wild

20,314 members

324 reviews

3.8

8 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

25

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,834 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

8 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

26

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,131 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,950 members

330 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, oleonard, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

28

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,253 members

172 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, steller0707

29

by Albert Camus

18,597 members

249 reviews

4

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Henry Fielding

8,168 members

95 reviews

3.9

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by Virginia Woolf

20,790 members

332 reviews

3.9

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

32

Little Women / Good Wives

by Louisa May Alcott

15,309 members

197 reviews

4.1

6 Members: oleonard, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB

33

by León Tolstói

38,667 members

632 reviews

4.1

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana, steller0707

34

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,150 members

282 reviews

4.1

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB

35

by Joseph Heller

40,174 members

529 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, oleonard, rretzler, gypsysmom, leslie.98, Cubanana

36

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,914 members

748 reviews

½ 3.7

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37

The New York Trilogy

9,879 members

155 reviews

3.9

7 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ahef1963, leslie.98, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

38

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,812 members

115 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aprille, hipdeep, oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98

39

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,073 members

181 reviews

4

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40

by Joseph Conrad

4,790 members

58 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98

41

19,621 members

320 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, oleonard, rretzler, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

42

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,809 members

435 reviews

3.8

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43

by Herman Melville

35,645 members

545 reviews

3.8

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Charlotte's Web

36,332 members

1,027 reviews

4.2

6 Members: oleonard, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98, steller0707

45

The Pilgrim's Progress

17,633 members

173 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,603 members

260 reviews

4.1

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ahef1963, leslie.98, Cubanana, steller0707

47

24,229 members

379 reviews

4

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98

48

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,513 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, ahef1963, leslie.98

49

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,705 members

113 reviews

3.9

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

50

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,839 members

565 reviews

4.1

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, Cubanana, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

51

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,192 members

141 reviews

3.9

6 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana

52

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,516 members

87 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, Cubanana

53

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,682 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, Cubanana, steller0707

54

5,218 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, Cubanana

55

The Diary of a Nobody

by George Grossmith

3,296 members

92 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: oleonard, ahef1963, leslie.98, NinieB, Cubanana

56

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,723 members

290 reviews

3.9

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, steller0707

57

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

25,690 members

436 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, Cubanana

58

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,920 members

46 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98

59

19,990 members

238 reviews

4

4 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

60

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,907 members

124 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98, steller0707

61

by John Dos Passos

1,482 members

15 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98

62

by Kingsley Amis

5,824 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, ahef1963, leslie.98

63

by Jack Kerouac

28,018 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98, Cubanana

64

The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

2,868 members

58 reviews

4.2

4 Members: oleonard, leslie.98, NinieB, steller0707

65

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

1,951 members

70 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98, steller0707

66

The Portrait of a Lady [Norton Critical Edition]

414 members

4 reviews

4.2

4 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, NinieB

67

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,624 members

698 reviews

4.2

4 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98, NinieB

68

Waiting for the Barbarians

by J. M. Coetzee

4,387 members

78 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom

69

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

3,202 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98

70

The Bottle Factory Outing

by Beryl Bainbridge

551 members

21 reviews

½ 3.3

4 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98, steller0707

71

by Günter Grass

7,622 members

93 reviews

4

4 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom, leslie.98

72

26,600 members

629 reviews

3.9

4 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, ahef1963, leslie.98

73

Nightmare Abbey

by Thomas Love Peacock

435 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

74

by Marilynne Robinson

6,393 members

214 reviews

3.9

4 Members: oleonard, ahef1963, leslie.98, steller0707

75

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,040 members

83 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner

76

Oscar and Lucinda

4,148 members

68 reviews

3.8

4 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98, NinieB

77

Sybil, or The Two Nations

by Benjamin Disraeli

762 members

5 reviews

3.2

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

78

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

2,602 members

68 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

79

by Samuel Beckett

853 members

17 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

80

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

by Elizabeth Taylor

1,250 members

59 reviews

4.1

2 Members: oleonard, -Pia-

81

The Periodic Table

4,043 members

70 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, thecoroner

82

by D. H. Lawrence

4,167 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

83

by William Faulkner

14,843 members

218 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, leslie.98, steller0707

84

by George Eliot

3,766 members

49 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98

85

by Angela Carter

1,926 members

40 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

86

Money: A Suicide Note

3,309 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, oleonard, leslie.98

87

American Pastoral

8,103 members

181 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, gypsysmom

88

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

8,500 members

232 reviews

4

3 Members: oleonard, gypsysmom, leslie.98

89

by W. G. Sebald

4,151 members

101 reviews

4.2

3 Members: oleonard, thecoroner, leslie.98

90

The Black Sheep

by Honoré de Balzac

656 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

91

by Evelyn Waugh

3,832 members

84 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, leslie.98

92

The Charterhouse of Parma

4,431 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

93

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway

1,598 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

94

by Flannery O'Connor

3,880 members

112 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oleonard, steller0707

95

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

2,906 members

50 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

96

by Alasdair Gray

2,051 members

37 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

97

An Artist of the Floating World

by Kazuo Ishiguro

3,891 members

103 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

98

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

6,147 members

59 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

99

L. A. Confidential

by James Ellroy

3,415 members

35 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, oleonard

100

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie

4,903 members

84 reviews

4

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