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The top 10 locked-room mysteries[edit]

McKinty, Adrian (29 January 2014). "The top 10 locked-room mysteries". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2016.

10. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) 9. The Case of the Constant Suicides John Dickson Carr (1941) 8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939) 7. Suddenly At His Residence by Christianna Brand (1946) 6. The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill (1892) 5. The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (1908) 4. The King Is Dead by Ellery Queen (1951) 3. La Septième hypothèse by Paul Halter (1991) 2. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada (1981) 1. The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr (1935)

The 100 best novels written in English[edit]

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

The 50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels[edit]

"Drawn Out: The 50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels". Rolling Stone. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2016.

No. Title Author
50 The Puma Blues Stephen Murphy and Michael Zulli
49 Multiple Warheads Brandon Graham
48 Berlin Jason Lutes
47 Safe Area Gorazde Joe Sacco
46 Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths Shigeru Mizuki
45 100 Bullets Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
44 You'll Never Know C. Tyler
43 Usagi Yojimbo Stan Sakai
42 Hark! A Vagrant Kate Beaton
41 Finder Carla Speed McNeil
40 Pluto Naoki Urasawa
39 Sex Criminals Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
38 Saga Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
37 Stray Bullets David Lapham
36 Paying for It Chester Brown
35 Journey William Messner-Loebs
34 Unterzakhan Leela Corman
33 Dal Tokyo Gary Panter
32 Mister X Dean Motter and Various
31 Diary of a Teenage Girl Phoebe Gloeckner
30 The Incal Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius
29 Preacher Garth Ennis
28 What It Is Lynda Barry
27 Curses Kevin Huzenga
26 FreakAngels Warren Ellis
25 It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken Seth
24 Our Cancer Year Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner and Frank Stack
23 The Cowboy Wally Show Kyle Baker
22 Twisted Sisters Various
21 Akira Katshuiro Otomo
20 Black Hole Charles Burns
19 Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea Guy Delisle
18 King Cat John Porcellino
17 A Contract With God Will Eisner
16 Cerebus Dave Sim
15 Uncle Scrooge Carl Barks
14 Achewood Chris Onstad
13 The Adventures of Tintin Hergé
12 Hicksville Dylan Horrocks
11 Alec: The Years Have Pants Eddie Campbell
10 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
9 Ghost World Daniel Clowes
8 Epileptic David B.
7 The Invisibles Grant Morrison and Various
6 From Hell Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
5 The Complete Robert Crumb Robert Crumb
4 Fun Home Alison Bechdel
3 Maus Art Spiegelman
2 Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Boy on Earth Chris Ware
1 Love and Rockets Los Bros Hernandez

The 100 greatest non-fiction books[edit]

"The 100 greatest non-fiction books". The Guardian. 14 June 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

Title Author Year Genre
The Shock of the New Robert Hughes 1980 Art
The Story of Art Ernst Gombrich 1950 Art
Ways of Seeing John Berger 1972 Art
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Giorgio Vasari 1550 Biography
The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell 1791 Biography
The Diaries of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys 1825 Biography
Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey 1918 Biography
Goodbye to All That Robert Graves 1929 Biography
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas Gertrude Stein 1933 Biography
Notes on Camp Susan Sontag 1964 Culture
Mythologies Roland Barthes 1972 Culture
Orientalism Edward Said 1978 Culture
Silent Spring Rachel Carson 1962 Environment
The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelock 1979 Environment
The Histories Herodotus c400 BC History
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1776 History
The History of England Thomas Babington Macaulay 1848 History
Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt 1963 History
The Making of the English Working Class EP Thompson 1963 History
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown 1970 History
Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression Studs Terkel 1970 History
Shah of Shahs Ryszard Kapuściński 1982 History
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 Eric Hobsbawm 1994 History
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Familes Philip Gourevitch 1999 History
Postwar Tony Judt 2005 History
The Journalist and the Murderer Janet Malcolm 1990 Journalism
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe 1968 Journalism
Dispatches Michael Herr 1977 Journalism
The Lives of the Poets Samuel Johnson 1781 Literature
An Image of Africa Chinua Achebe 1975 Literature
The Uses of Enchantment Bruno Bettelheim 1976 Literature
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Douglas Hofstadter 1979 Mathematics
Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 Memoir
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass 1845 Memoir
De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1905 Memoir
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom TE Lawrence 1922 Memoir
The Story of My Experiments with Truth Mahatma Gandhi 1927 Memoir
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell 1938 Memoir
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Memoir
Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov 1951 Memoir
The Man Died Wole Soyinka 1971 Memoir
The Periodic Table Primo Levi 1975 Memoir
Bad Blood Lorna Sage 2000 Memoir
The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 1899 Mind
The Romantic Generation Charles Rosen 1998 Music
The Symposium Plato c380 BC Philosophy
Meditations Marcus Aurelius c180 Philosophy
Essays Michel de Montaigne 1580 Philosophy
The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton 1621 Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy René Descartes 1641 Philosophy
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion David Hume 1779 Philosophy
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1781 Philosophy
Phenomenology of Mind GWF Hegel 1807 Philosophy
Walden HD Thoreau 1854 Philosophy
On Liberty John Stuart Mill 1859 Philosophy
Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche 1883 Philosophy
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn 1962 Philosophy
The Art of War Sun Tzu c500 BC Politics
The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli 1532 Politics
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1651 Politics
The Rights of Man Thomas Paine 1791 Politics
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1792 Politics
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1848 Politics
The Souls of Black Folk WEB DuBois 1903 Politics
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 Politics
The Wretched of the Earth Franz Fanon 1961 Politics
The Medium is the Massage Marshall McLuhan 1967 Politics
The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer 1970 Politics
Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman 1988 Politics
Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky 2008 Politics
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1890 Religion
The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 1902 Religion
On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1859 Science
The Character of Physical Law Richard Feynmann 1965 Science
The Double Helix James Watson 1968 Science
The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 1976 Science
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking 1988 Science
The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pisan 1405 Society
Praise of Folly Erasmus 1511 Society
Letters Concerning the English Nation Voltaire 1734 Society
Suicide Émile Durkheim 1897 Society
Economy and Society Max Weber 1922 Society
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 Society
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee and Walker Evans 1941 Society
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan 1963 Society
In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 Society
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 1968 Society
The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Society
Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault 1975 Society
News of a Kidnapping Gabriel García Márquez 1996 Society
The Travels of Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta 1355 Travel
Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 Travel
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Rebecca West 1941 Travel
Venice Jan Morris 1960 Travel
A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor 1977 Travel
Danube Claudio Magris 1986 Travel
China Along the Yellow River Cao Jinqing 1995 Travel
The Rings of Saturn WG Sebald 1995 Travel
Passage to Juneau Jonathan Raban 2000 Travel
Letters to a Young Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa 2002 Travel

1000 novels everyone must read[edit]

"1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive list". The Guardian. 23 January 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2016.

Title Author Genre
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis Comedy
Money Martin Amis Comedy
The Information Martin Amis Comedy
The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge Comedy
According to Queeney Beryl Bainbridge Comedy
Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes Comedy
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters Julian Barnes Comedy
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man Henry Howarth Bashford Comedy
Molloy Samuel Beckett Comedy
Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm Comedy
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow Comedy
The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett Comedy
Queen Lucia EF Benson Comedy
The Ascent of Rum Doodle WE Bowman Comedy
A Good Man in Africa William Boyd Comedy
The History Man Malcolm Bradbury Comedy
No Bed for Bacon Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon Comedy
Illywhacker Peter Carey Comedy
A Season in Sinji JL Carr Comedy
The Harpole Report JL Carr Comedy
The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington Comedy
Mister Johnson Joyce Cary Comedy
The Horse's Mouth Joyce Cary Comedy
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Comedy
The Case of the Gilded Fly Edmund Crispin Comedy
Just William Richmal Crompton Comedy
The Provincial Lady EM Delafield Comedy
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Peter De Vries Comedy
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens Comedy
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens Comedy
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master Denis Diderot Comedy
A Fairy Tale of New York JP Donleavy Comedy
The Commitments Roddy Doyle Comedy
Ennui Maria Edgeworth Comedy
Cheese Willem Elsschot Comedy
Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding Comedy
Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding Comedy
Tom Jones Henry Fielding Comedy
Caprice Ronald Firbank Comedy
Bouvard et Pécuchet Gustave Flaubert Comedy
Towards the End of the Morning Michael Frayn Comedy
The Polygots William Gerhardie Comedy
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons Comedy
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol Comedy
Oblomov Ivan Goncharov Comedy
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Comedy
Brewster's Millions Richard Greaves Comedy
Squire Haggard's Journal Michael Green Comedy
Our Man in Havana Graham Greene Comedy
Travels with My Aunt Graham Greene Comedy
Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith Comedy
The Little World of Don Camillo Giovanni Guareschi Comedy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon Comedy
Catch-22 Joseph Heller Comedy
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Eric Hodgins Comedy
High Fidelity Nick Hornby Comedy
I Served the King of England Bohumil Hrabal Comedy
The Lecturer's Tale James Hynes Comedy
Mr Norris Changes Trains Christopher Isherwood Comedy
The Mighty Walzer Howard Jacobson Comedy
Pictures from an Institution Randall Jarrell Comedy
Three Men in a Boat Jerome K Jerome Comedy
Finnegans Wake James Joyce Comedy
The Castle Franz Kafka Comedy
Lake Wobegon Days Garrison Keillor Comedy
Death and the Penguin Andrey Kurkov Comedy
The Debt to Pleasure John Lanchester Comedy
L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage Comedy
Changing Places David Lodge Comedy
Nice Work David Lodge Comedy
The Towers of Trebizond Rose Macaulay Comedy
England, Their England AG Macdonell Comedy
Whisky Galore Compton Mackenzie Comedy
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen Comedy
Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard W Somerset Maugham Comedy
Tales of the City Armistead Maupin Comedy
Bright Lights, Big City Jay McInerney Comedy
Puckoon Spike Milligan Comedy
The Restraint of Beasts Magnus Mills Comedy
Charade John Mortimer Comedy
Titmuss Regained John Mortimer Comedy
Under the Net Iris Murdoch Comedy
Pnin Vladimir Nabokov Comedy
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov Comedy
Fireflies Shiva Naipaul Comedy
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf Victor Pelevin Comedy
La Disparition Georges Perec Comedy
Les Revenentes Georges Perec Comedy
La Vie Mode d'Emploi Georges Perec Comedy
My Search for Warren Harding Robert Plunkett Comedy
A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell Comedy
A Time to be Born Dawn Powell Comedy
Excellent Women Barbara Pym Comedy
Less Than Angels Barbara Pym Comedy
Zazie in the Metro Raymond Queneau Comedy
Solomon Gursky Was Here Mordecai Richler Comedy
Alms for Oblivion Simon Raven Comedy
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth Comedy
The Westminster Alice Saki Comedy
The Unbearable Bassington Saki Comedy
Hurrah for St Trinian's Ronald Searle Comedy
Great Apes Will Self Comedy
Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe Comedy
Blott on the Landscape Tom Sharpe Comedy
Office Politics Wilfrid Sheed Comedy
Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel Charles Simmons Comedy
Moo Jane Smiley Comedy
Topper Takes a Trip Thorne Smith Comedy
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom Tobias Smollett Comedy
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias Smollett Comedy
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Tobias Smollett Comedy
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Tobias Smollett Comedy
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Comedy
The Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark Comedy
The Driver's Seat Muriel Spark Comedy
Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark Comedy
A Far Cry from Kensington Muriel Spark Comedy
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne Comedy
White Man Falling Mike Stocks Comedy
Handley Cross RS Surtees Comedy
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift Comedy
Penrod Booth Tarkington Comedy
The Luck of Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray Comedy
Before Lunch Angela Thirkell Comedy
Tropic of Ruislip Leslie Thomas Comedy
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole Comedy
Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope Comedy
Venus on the Half-Shell Kilgore Trout Comedy
The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain Comedy
The Witches of Eastwick John Updike Comedy
Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut Comedy
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Comedy
Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh Comedy
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh Comedy
Black Mischief Evelyn Waugh Comedy
Scoop Evelyn Waugh Comedy
The Loved One Evelyn Waugh Comedy
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh Comedy
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil Fay Weldon Comedy
Tono Bungay HG Wells Comedy
Molesworth Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle Comedy
The Wimbledon Poisoner Nigel Williams Comedy
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Angus Wilson Comedy
Something Fresh PG Wodehouse Comedy
Piccadilly Jim PG Wodehouse Comedy
Thank You Jeeves PG Wodehouse Comedy
Heavy Weather PG Wodehouse Comedy
The Code of the Woosters PG Wodehouse Comedy
Joy in the Morning PG Wodehouse Comedy
The Man with the Golden Arm Nelson Algren Crime
Fantomas Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre Crime
The Mask of Dimitrios Eric Ambler Crime
Epitaph for a Spy Eric Ambler Crime
Journey into Fear Eric Ambler Crime
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster Crime
Trent's Last Case EC Bentley Crime
The Poisoned Chocolates Case Anthony Berkeley Crime
The Beast Must Die Nicholas Blake Crime
Lady Audley's Secret Mary E Braddon Crime
The Neon Rain James Lee Burke Crime
The Tin Roof Blowdown James Lee Burke Crime
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan Crime
Greenmantle John Buchan Crime
The Asphalt Jungle WR Burnett Crime
The Postman Always Rings Twice James M Cain Crime
Double Indemnity James M Cain Crime
True History of the Ned Kelly Gang Peter Carey Crime
The Hollow Man John Dickson Carr Crime
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Crime
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler Crime
No Orchids for Miss Blandish James Hadley Chase Crime
The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers Crime
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie Crime
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie Crime
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie Crime
The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie Crime
The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie Crime
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins Crime
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins Crime
A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle Crime
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle Crime
The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle Crime
The Manchurian Candidate Richard Condon Crime
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad Crime
Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad Crime
Postmortem Patricia Cornwell Crime
The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton Crime
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton Crime
Poetic Justice Amanda Cross Crime
The Ipcress File Len Deighton Crime
Last Seen Wearing Colin Dexter Crime
The Remorseful Day Colin Dexter Crime
Ratking Michael Dibdin Crime
Dead Lagoon Michael Dibdin Crime
Dirty Tricks Michael Dibdin Crime
A Rich Full Death Michael Dibdin Crime
Vendetta Michael Dibdin Crime
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser Crime
My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier Crime
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Crime
The Pledge Friedrich Durrenmatt Crime
The Crime of Father Amado José Maria de Eça de Queiroz Crime
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco Crime
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis Crime
LA Confidential James Ellroy Crime
The Big Nowhere James Ellroy Crime
A Quiet Belief in Angels RJ Ellory Crime
Sanctuary William Faulkner Crime
Casino Royale Ian Fleming Crime
Goldfinger Ian Fleming Crime
You Only Live Twice Ian Fleming Crime
The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth Crime
Brighton Rock Graham Greene Crime
A Gun for Sale Graham Greene Crime
The Ministry of Fear Graham Greene Crime
The Third Man Graham Greene Crime
A Time to Kill John Grisham Crime
The King of Torts John Grisham Crime
Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton Crime
The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett Crime
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Crime
Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Crime
The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett Crime
Fatherland Robert Harris Crime
Black Sunday Thomas Harris Crime
Red Dragon Thomas Harris Crime
Tourist Season Carl Hiaasen Crime
The Friends of Eddie Coyle George V Higgins Crime
Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith Crime
The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith Crime
Bones and Silence Reginald Hill Crime
A Rage in Harlem Chester Himes Crime
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow Peter Hoeg Crime
Rogue Male Geoffrey Household Crime
Malice Aforethought Francis Iles Crime
Silence of the Grave Arnaldur Indriðason Crime
Death at the President's Lodging Michael Innes Crime
Cover Her Face PD James Crime
A Taste for Death PD James Crime
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late Harry Kemelman Crime
Misery Stephen King Crime
Dolores Claiborne Stephen King Crime
Kim Rudyard Kipling Crime
The Constant Gardener John le Carre Crime
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carre Crime
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carre Crime
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Crime
52 Pick-up Elmore Leonard Crime
Get Shorty Elmore Leonard Crime
Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem Crime
The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum Crime
Cop Hater Ed McBain Crime
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy Crime
Enduring Love Ian McEwan Crime
Sidetracked Henning Mankell Crime
Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley Crime
The Great Impersonation E Phillips Oppenheim Crime
The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent E Phillips Oppenheim Crime
My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk Crime
Toxic Shock Sara Paretsky Crime
Blacklist Sara Paretsky Crime
Nineteen Seventy Four David Peace Crime
Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace Crime
The Big Blowdown George Pelecanos Crime
Hard Revolution George Pelecanos Crime
Lush Life Richard Price Crime
The Godfather Mario Puzo Crime
V Thomas Pynchon Crime
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon Crime
Black and Blue Ian Rankin Crime
The Hanging Gardens Ian Rankin Crime
Exit Music Ian Rankin Crime
Judgment in Stone Ruth Rendell Crime
Live Flesh Ruth Rendell Crime
Dissolution CJ Sansom Crime
Whose Body? Dorothy L Sayers Crime
Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L Sayers Crime
The Madman of Bergerac Georges Simenon Crime
The Blue Room Georges Simenon Crime
The Laughing Policeman Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo Crime
Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith Crime
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Crime
The League of Frightened Men Rex Stout Crime
Perfume Patrick Suskind Crime
The Secret History Donna Tartt Crime
The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey Crime
The Getaway Jim Thompson Crime
Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain Crime
A Dark-Adapted Eye Barbara Vine Crime
A Fatal inversion Barbara Vine Crime
King Solomon's Carpet Barbara Vine Crime
The Four Just Men Edgar Wallace Crime
Fingersmith Sarah Waters Crime
Native Son Richard Wright Crime
Therese Raquin Emile Zola Crime
The Face of Another Kobo Abe Family and self
Little Women Louisa May Alcott Family and self
Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson Family and self
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood Family and self
Epileptic David B Family and self
Room Temperature Nicholson Baker Family and self
Eugenie Grandet Honore de Balzac Family and self
Le Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac Family and self
The Crow Road Iain Banks Family and self
The L Shaped Room Lynne Reid Banks Family and self
Fun Home Alison Bechdel Family and self
Malone Dies Samuel Beckett Family and self
A Legacy Sybille Bedford Family and self
Herzog Saul Bellow Family and self
Humboldt's Gift Saul Bellow Family and self
The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett Family and self
G John Berger Family and self
Extinction Thomas Bernhard Family and self
Two Serious Ladies Jane Bowles Family and self
Any Human Heart William Boyd Family and self
The Death of Virgil Hermann Broch Family and self
Evelina Fanny Burney Family and self
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler Family and self
The Sound of my Voice Ron Butlin Family and self
The Outsider Albert Camus Family and self
Wise Children Angela Carter Family and self
The Professor's House Willa Cather Family and self
The Wapshot Chronicle John Cheever Family and self
The Awakening Kate Chopin Family and self
Les Enfants Terrible Jean Cocteau Family and self
The Vagabond Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Family and self
Manservant and Maidservant Ivy Compton-Burnett Family and self
Being Dead Jim Crace Family and self
Quarantine Jim Crace Family and self
The Mandarins Simone de Beauvoir Family and self
Roxana Daniel Defoe Family and self
Great Expectations Charles Dickens Family and self
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Family and self
My New York Diary Julie Doucet Family and self
The Millstone Margaret Drabble Family and self
My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell Family and self
Silence Shusaku Endo Family and self
The Gathering Anne Enright Family and self
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Family and self
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Family and self
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Family and self
The Sportswriter Richard Ford Family and self
Howards End EM Forster Family and self
Spies Michael Frayn Family and self
Hideous Kinky Esther Freud Family and self
The Man of Property John Galsworthy Family and self
Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell Family and self
The Immoralist Andre Gide Family and self
The Vatican Cellars Andre Gide Family and self
The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith Family and self
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene Family and self
Hunger Knut Hamsun Family and self
The Shrimp and the Anemone LP Hartley Family and self
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Family and self
Steppenwolf Herman Hesse Family and self
Narziss and Goldmund Hermann Hesse Family and self
The Three Paradoxes Paul Hornschemeier Family and self
Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes Family and self
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving Family and self
The Ambassadors Henry James Family and self
Washington Square Henry James Family and self
The Tortoise and the Hare Elizabeth Jenkins Family and self
The Unfortunates BS Johnson Family and self
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Family and self
Ulysses James Joyce Family and self
Good Behaviour Molly Keane Family and self
Memet my Hawk Yasar Kemal Family and self
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey Family and self
The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi Family and self
Sons and Lovers DH Lawrence Family and self
Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee Family and self
Invitation to the Waltz Rosamond Lehmann Family and self
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Family and self
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Slaughter-House Five Kurt Vonnegut War and travel
Put Out More Flags Evelyn Waugh War and travel
Men at Arms Evelyn Waugh War and travel
The Island of Dr Moreau HG Wells War and travel
The Machine-Gunners Robert Westall War and travel
Voss Patrick White War and travel
The Virginian Owen Wister War and travel
The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk War and travel
The Debacle Emile Zola War and travel

The Rough Guide to Classic Novels[edit]

Mason, Simon (May 2008). The Rough Guide to Classic Novels. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84353-516-4.

No. Title Year Author Nationality Genre
1 Emma 1816 Jane Austen English Love
2 Pride and Prejudice 1813 Jane Austen English Love
3 Jane Eyre 1847 Charlotte Brontë English Love
4 Wuthering Heights 1847 Emily Brontë English Love
5 Fanny Hill 1748–49 John Cleland English Love
6 Chéri 1920 Collette French Love
7 Adolphe 1816 Benjamin Constant French Love
8 The Lover 1984 Marguerite Duras French Love
9 Adam Bede 1859 George Eliot English Love
10 The Blue Flower 1995 Penelope Fitzgerald English Love
11 Madame Bovary 1857 Gustave Flaubert French Love
12 Effi Briest 1894 Theodor Fontane German Love
13 The Good Soldier (pockets #35) 1915 Ford Madox Ford English Love
14 The French Lieutenant's Woman 1969 John Fowles English Love
15 Elective Affinities 1809 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Love
16 The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Love
17 Loving 1945 Henry Green English Love
18 The Sun Also Rises 1926 Ernest Hemingway American Love
19 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1984 Milan Kundera Czech Love
20 Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1782 Choderlos de Laclos French Love
21 The Princess of Clèves 1678 Madame de Lafayette French Love
22 The Golden Notebook 1962 Doris Lessing Zimbabwean Love
23 The Sea, the Sea 1978 Iris Murdoch English Love
24 Lolita 1955 Vladimir Nabokov Russian Love
25 Doctor Zhivago 1958 Boris Pasternak Russian Love
26 Manon Lescaut 1731 Abbé Prévost French Love
27 Pamela 1740–41 Samuel Richardson English Love
28 Anna Karenina 1877 Leo Tolstoy Russian Love
29 First Love 1860 Ivan Turgenev Russian Love
30 Little Women 1868 Louisa May Alcott American Families
31 Go Tell It on the Mountain 1954 James Baldwin American Families
32 Manservant and Maidservant 1947 Ivy Compton-Burnett English Families
33 The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian Families
34 Castle Rackrent 1800 Maria Edgeworth Irish Families
35 The Sound and the Fury 1929 William Faulkner American Families
36 The Vicar of Wakefield 1766 Oliver Goldsmith Irish Families
37 Burger's Daughter 1979 Nadine Gordimer South African Families
38 Sons and Lovers 1913 D.H. Lawrence English Families
39 One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967 Gabriel García Márquez Colombian Families
40 Beloved 1987 Toni Morrison American Families
41 A Personal Matter 1964 Kenzaburō Ōe Japanese Families
42 Radetzky March 1932 Joseph Roth Austrian Families
43 American Pastoral 1997 Philip Roth American Families
44 The Golovlyov Family 1875–80 Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Russian Families
45 The Street of Crocodiles 1934 Bruno Schulz Polish Families
46 The Makioka Sisters 1943–48 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Japanese Families
47 Fathers and Sons 1862 Ivan Turgenev Russian Families
48 Of the Farm 1965 John Updike American Families
49 To the Lighthouse 1927 Virginia Woolf English Families
50 Le Grand Meaulnes 1913 Alain-Fournier French Rites of passage
51 The Death of the Heart 1938 Elizabeth Bowen English Rites of passage
52 The Death of Virgil 1946 Hermann Broch German Rites of passage
53 Evelina 1778 Fanny Burney English Rites of passage
54 The Bride Price 1976 Buchi Emecheta Nigerian Rites of passage
55 My Brilliant Career 1901 Miles Franklin Australian Rites of passage
56 Man in the Holocene 1979 Max Frisch Swiss Rites of passage
57 The Death of Artemio Cruz 1962 Carlos Fuentes Mexican Rites of passage
58 The Master of Go 1954 Yasunari Kawabata Japanese Rites of passage
59 To Kill a Mockingbird 1960 Harper Lee American Rites of passage
60 Weep Not, Child 1964 Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Kenyan Rites of passage
61 In Search of Lost Time 1913–27 Marcel Proust French Rites of passage
62 The Catcher in the Rye 1951 J.D. Salinger American Rites of passage
63 Memento Mori 1959 Muriel Spark Scottish Rites of passage
64 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884 Mark Twain American Rites of passage
65 Memoirs of Hadrian 1951 Marguerite Yourcenar French Rites of passage
66 Nightwood 1936 Djuna Barnes American Heroes
67 Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
1955–59 Samuel Beckett Irish Heroes
68 Herzog 1964 Saul Bellow American Heroes
69 The Outsider 1942 Albert Camus French Heroes
70 Nostromo 1904 Joseph Conrad Polish–British Heroes
71 Hopscotch 1963 Julio Cortázar Argentine Heroes
72 Wonderful Fool 1959 Shūsaku Endō Japanese Heroes
73 Jonathan Wild 1743 Henry Fielding English Heroes
74 Oblomov 1859 Ivan Goncharov Russian Heroes
75 Mysteries 1892 Knut Hamsen Norwegian Heroes
76 Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891 Thomas Hardy English Heroes
77 Against Nature 1884 Joris-Karl Huysmans French Heroes
78 The Piano Teacher 1983 Elfriede Jelinek Austrian Heroes
79 Independent People 1934–35 Halldor Laxness Icelandic Heroes
80 A Hero of Our Time 1840 Mikhail Lermontov Russian Heroes
81 The Hour of the Star 1977 Clarice Lispector Brazilian Heroes
82 Max Havelaar 1860 Multatuli Dutch Heroes
83 The Man Without Qualities 1930–42 Robert Musil Austrian Heroes
84 Coming Through Slaughter 1979 Michael Ondaatje Sri Lankan–Canadian Heroes
85 Lolly Willowes 1926 Sylvia Townsend Warner English Heroes
86 The Quest for Christa T 1968 Christa Wolf German Heroes
87 Cousin Bette 1846 Honoré de Balzac French Making it
88 Lost Illusions 1837–43 Honoré de Balzac French Making it
89 Robinson Crusoe 1719 Daniel Defoe English Making it
90 Great Expectations 1860–61 Charles Dickens English Making it
91 Sister Carrie 1900 Theodore Dreiser American Making it
92 The Great Gatsby 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald American Making it
93 The Provost 1822 John Galt Scottish Making it
94 The Mayor of Casterbridge 1886 Thomas Hardy English Making it
95 Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 Zora Neale Hurston American Making it
96 The Wings of the Dove 1902 Henry James American Making it
97 Esther Waters 1894 George Moore Irish Making it
98 A House for Mr Biswas 1961 V.S. Naipaul Trinidadian Making it
99 The Violent Bear It Away 1960 Flannery O'Connor American Making it
100 Hester 1883 Margaret Oliphant Scottish Making it
101 Soul 1935 Andrey Platonov Russian Making it
102 Midnight's Children 1981 Salman Rushdie Indian Making it
103 The Grapes of Wrath 1939 John Steinbeck American Making it
104 The Charterhouse of Parma 1839 Stendhal French Making it
105 The Red and the Black 1830 Stendhal French Making it
106 Vanity Fair 1848 William Makepeace Thackeray English Making it
107 The House of Mirth 1905 Edith Wharton American Making it
108 Don Quixote 1604–14 Miguel de Cervantes Spanish Adventure
109 The Riddle of the Sands 1903 Robert Erskine Childers Irish Adventure
110 Last of the Mohicans 1826 James Fenimore Cooper American Adventure
111 The Count of Monte Cristo 1844–46 Alexandre Dumas French Adventure
112 Tom Jones 1749 Henry Fielding English Adventure
113 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1831 Victor Hugo French Adventure
114 Kim 1901 Rudyard Kipling English Adventure
115 Moby Dick 1851 Herman Melville American Adventure
116 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle 1994 Haruki Murakami Japanese Adventure
117 The Heart of Midlothian 1818 Walter Scott Scottish Adventure
118 Voss 1957 Patrick White Australian Adventure
119 Things Fall Apart 1958 Chinua Achebe Nigerian War
120 Crash 1973 J.G. Ballard English War
121 Oroonoko 1688 Aphra Behn English War
122 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum 1974 Heinrich Böll German War
123 Journey to the End of Night 1932 Louis-Ferdinand Céline French War
124 Waiting for the Barbarians 1980 J.M. Coetzee South African War
125 Heart of Darkness 1902 Joseph Conrad Polish–British War
126 Libra 1988 Don DeLillo American War
127 The Tin Drum 1959 Günter Grass German War
128 Simplicius Simplicissimus 1688 Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen German War
129 Life and Fate 1980 Vasily Grossman Russian War
130 The Good Soldier Švejk 1921–23 Jaroslav Hašek Czech War
131 Catch-22 1961 Joseph Heller American War
132 Farewell to Arms 1929 Ernest Hemingway American War
133 Memed, My Hawk 1958 Yaşar Kemal Turkish War
134 Schindler's Ark 1982 Thomas Keneally Australian War
135 Garden, Ashes 1965 Danilo Kiš Serbian War
136 The Naked and the Dead 1949 Norman Mailer American War
137 Blood Meridian 1985 Cormac McCarthy American War
138 Snow 2002 Orhan Pamuk Turkish War
139 The Crying of Lot 49 1966 Thomas Pynchon American War
140 The Emigrants 1993 W.G. Sebald German War
141 Cancer Ward 1968 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Russian War
142 Hadji Murad 1912 Leo Tolstoy Russian War
143 War and Peace 1865 Leo Tolstoy Russian War
144 The Ogre 1970 Michel Tournier French War
145 Germinal 1885 Émile Zola French War
146 Winesburg, Ohio 1919 Sherwood Anderson American A sense of place
147 The Sheltering Sky 1949 Paul Bowles American A sense of place
148 A Month in the Country 1980 J.L. Carr English A sense of place
149 My Ántonia 1918 Willa Cather American A sense of place
150 Ragtime 1975 E.L. Doctorow American A sense of place
151 Manhattan Transfer 1925 John Dos Passos American A sense of place
152 Rebecca 1938 Daphne du Maurier English A sense of place
153 The Alexandria Quartet 1957–60 Lawrence Durrell English A sense of place
154 Middlemarch 1871–72 George Eliot English A sense of place
155 Valmouth 1919 Ronald Firbank English A sense of place
156 A Passage to India 1924 E.M. Forster English A sense of place
157 Cranford 1851–53 Elizabeth Gaskell English A sense of place
158 Lanark 1981 Alasdair Gray Scottish A sense of place
159 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce Irish A sense of place
160 The Leopard 1958 Giorgio Bassani Sicilian A sense of place
161 The Cairo Trilogy 1956–57 Naguib Mahfouz Egyptian A sense of place
162 The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann German A sense of place
163 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 1940 Carson McCullers American A sense of place
164 The Moon and the Bonfires 1950 Cesare Pavese Italian A sense of place
165 Life A User's Manual 1978 Georges Perec French A sense of place
166 The Maias 1888 José Maria de Eça de Queirós Portuguese A sense of place
167 Wide Sargasso Sea 1966 Jean Rhys Dominican A sense of place
168 The Devil's Pool 1846 George Sand French A sense of place
169 The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis 1984 José Saramago Portuguese A sense of place
170 Barchester Towers 1857 Anthony Trollope English A sense of place
171 A Sportsman's Sketches 1852 Ivan Turgenev Russian A sense of place
172 The Handmaid's Tale 1985 Margaret Atwood Canadian Incredible worlds
173 Fahrenheit 451 1953 Ray Bradbury American Incredible worlds
174 The Master and Margarita 1938 Mikhail Bulgakov Russian Incredible worlds
175 Erewhon 1872 Samuel Butler English Incredible worlds
176 Invisible Cities 1972 Italo Calvino Italian Incredible worlds
177 Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
1865
1872
Lewis Carroll English Incredible worlds
178 The Inheritors 1955 William Golding English Incredible worlds
179 Brave New World 1932 Aldous Huxley English Incredible worlds
180 The Left Hand of Darkness 1969 Ursula K. Le Guin American Incredible worlds
181 Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949 George Orwell English Incredible worlds
182 Gulliver's Travels 1726 Jonathan Swift Irish Incredible worlds
183 The Lord of the Rings 1954–55 J.R.R. Tolkein English Incredible worlds
184 The Time Machine 1895 H.G. Wells English Incredible worlds
185 We 1924 Yevgeny Zamyatin Russian Incredible worlds
186 The Man Who Was Thursday 1907 G.K. Chesterton English Horror
187 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle English Horror
188 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 1924 James Hogg Scottish Horror
189 The Turn of the Screw 1898 Henry James American Horror
190 The Mysteries of Udolpho 1794 Ann Radcliffe English Horror
191 Frankenstein 1818 Mary Shelley English Horror
192 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish Horror
193 Dracula 1897 Bram Stoker Irish Horror
194 The Castle of Otranto 1764 Horace Walpole English Horror
195 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Oscar Wilde Irish Horror
196 Lady Audley's Secret 1862 Mary Elizabeth Braddon English Crime
197 The Naked Lunch 1959 William Burroughs American Crime
198 The Big Sleep 1939 Raymond Chandler American Crime
199 And Then There Were None 1939 Agatha Christie English Crime
200 The Moonstone 1868 Wilkie Collins English Crime
201 The Woman in White 1859–60 Wilkie Collins English Crime
202 Moll Flanders 1722 Daniel Defoe English Crime
203 Crime and Punishment 1865–66 Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian Crime
204 The Name of the Rose 1980 Umberto Eco Italian Crime
205 L.A. Quartet 1987–92 James Ellroy American Crime
206 That Awful Mess on Via Merulana 1957 Carlo Emilio Gadda Italian Crime
207 Caleb Williams 1794 William Godwin English Crime
208 The Scarlet Letter 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne American Crime
209 Broken April 1982 Ismail Kadare Albanian Crime
210 The Trial 1925 Franz Kafka Czech Crime
211 Darkness at Noon 1940 Arthur Koestler Hungarian Crime
212 Dirty Snow 1948 Georges Simenon Belgian Crime
213 Illywhacker 1985 Peter Carey Australian Comedy
214 The Pickwick Papers 1837 Charles Dickens English Comedy
215 That Bringas Woman 1884 Benito Pérez Galdós Spanish Comedy
216 The Polyglots 1925 William Gerhardie English Comedy
217 Cold Comfort Farm 1932 Stella Gibbons English Comedy
218 Dead Souls (pockets #39) 1842 Nikolay Gogol Russian Comedy
219 Our Man in Havana 1958 Graham Greene English Comedy
220 At Swim-Two-Birds 1939 Flann O'Brien Irish Comedy
221 Nightmare Abbey 1818 Thomas Love Peacock English Comedy
222 Exercises in Style 1947 Raymond Queneau French Comedy
223 Portnoy's Complaint 1969 Philip Roth American Comedy
224 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 1771 Tobias Smollett English Comedy
225 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 1760 Laurence Sterne Irish Comedy
226 Zeno's Conscience 1923 Italo Svevo Italian Comedy
227 Candide 1759 Voltaire French Comedy
228 A Handful of Dust 1934 Evelyn Waugh English Comedy
229 Psmith in the City 1910 P.G. Wodehouse English Comedy

The 100 greatest novels of all time[edit]

McCrum, Robert (12 October 2003). "The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list". The Observer. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

No. Title Author
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 Honoré 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 Brontë
18 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
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 The Strange Case of 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 EM 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 EB 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 Günter 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 García Márquez
77 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
78 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré
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 VS Naipaul
84 Waiting for the Barbarians JM 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 of 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