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McCrum, Robert (17 August 2015). "The 100 best novels written in English: the full list". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

No. Title Author Year More
1 The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan 1678 The Guardian
2 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 The Guardian
3 Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 The Guardian
4 Clarissa Samuel Richardson 1748 The Guardian
5 Tom Jones Henry Fielding 1749 The Guardian
6 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne 1759 The Guardian
7 Emma Jane Austen 1816 The Guardian
8 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 The Guardian
9 Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1818 The Guardian
10 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allan Poe 1838 The Guardian
11 Sybil Benjamin Disraeli 1845 The Guardian
12 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 The Guardian
13 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 The Guardian
14 Vanity Fair William Thackeray 1848 The Guardian
15 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1850 The Guardian
16 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 The Guardian
17 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 The Guardian
18 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 The Guardian
19 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1868 The Guardian
20 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868-9 The Guardian
21 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871-2 The Guardian
22 The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1875 The Guardian
23 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884/5 The Guardian
24 Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 The Guardian
25 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K Jerome 1889 The Guardian
26 The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 The Guardian
27 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1891 The Guardian
28 New Grub Street George Gissing 1891 The Guardian
29 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1895 The Guardian
30 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1895 The Guardian
31 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 The Guardian
32 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 The Guardian
33 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser 1900 The Guardian
34 Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 The Guardian
35 The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 The Guardian
36 The Golden Bowl Henry James 1904 The Guardian
37 Hadrian the Seventh Frederick Rolfe 1904 The Guardian
38 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 The Guardian
39 The History of Mr Polly HG Wells 1910 The Guardian
40 Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm 1911 The Guardian
41 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1915 The Guardian
42 The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1915 The Guardian
43 The Rainbow DH Lawrence 1915 The Guardian
44 Of Human Bondage W Somerset Maugham 1915 The Guardian
45 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 The Guardian
46 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 The Guardian
47 Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1922 The Guardian
48 A Passage to India EM Forster 1924 The Guardian
49 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos 1925 The Guardian
50 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 The Guardian
51 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 1925 The Guardian
52 Lolly Willowes Sylvia Townsend Warner 1926 The Guardian
53 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 The Guardian
54 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1929 The Guardian
55 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 The Guardian
56 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 The Guardian
57 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1932 The Guardian
58 Nineteen Nineteen John Dos Passos 1932 The Guardian
59 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller 1934 The Guardian
60 Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938 The Guardian
61 Murphy Samuel Beckett 1938 The Guardian
62 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 The Guardian
63 Party Going Henry Green 1939 The Guardian
64 At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O’Brien 1939 The Guardian
65 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 The Guardian
66 Joy in the Morning PG Wodehouse 1946 The Guardian
67 All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 The Guardian
68 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 The Guardian
69 The Heat of the Day Elizabeth Bowen 1948 The Guardian
70 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949 The Guardian
71 The End of the Affair Graham Greene 1951 The Guardian
72 The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger 1951 The Guardian
73 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953 The Guardian
74 Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 The Guardian
75 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 The Guardian
76 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 The Guardian
77 Voss Patrick White 1957 The Guardian
78 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 The Guardian
79 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1960 The Guardian
80 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 The Guardian
81 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 1962 The Guardian
82 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 The Guardian
83 A Single Man Christopher Isherwood 1964 The Guardian
84 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 The Guardian
85 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1966 The Guardian
86 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 The Guardian
87 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor 1971 The Guardian
88 Rabbit Redux John Updike 1971 The Guardian
89 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977 The Guardian
90 A Bend in the River VS Naipaul 1979 The Guardian
91 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 The Guardian
92 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 1981 The Guardian
93 Money: A Suicide Note Martin Amis 1984 The Guardian
94 An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro 1986 The Guardian
95 The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald 1988 The Guardian
96 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler 1988 The Guardian
97 Amongst Women John McGahern 1990 The Guardian
98 Underworld Don DeLillo 1997 The Guardian
99 Disgrace JM Coetzee 1999 The Guardian
100 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey 2000 The Guardian