The Guardian Top 100 Novels

Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan; Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe; Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift; Tom Jones, Henry Fielding; Clarissa, Samuel Richardson; Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne; Emma, Jane Austen; Frankenstein, Mary Shelley; Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe; Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli; David Copperfield, Charles Dickens; Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte; Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte; Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray; The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne; Moby Dick, Herman Melville; The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins; Alice Adventure's in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll; Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott; The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope; Middlemarch, George Eliot; Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain; Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson; Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome; The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde; New Grub Street, George Gissing; Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy; The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane; The Call of the Wild, Jack London; Dracula, Bram Stoker; Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad; Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser; Kim, Rudyard Kipling; The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame;  The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence; The History of Mr Polly, HG Wells; The Golden Bowl, Henry James; Hadrian the Seventh, Frederick Rolfe; The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford; Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm; Of Human Bondage, W Somerset Maugham; The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan; The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton; Ulysses, James Joyce; Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis; Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf; A Passage to India, E. M. Forster; The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Sun Also Rises, Ernest  Hemingway; The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett; Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner; As I lay Dying, William Faulkner; Brave New World, Aldous Huxley; Scoop, Evelyn Waugh; Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons; The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler; Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller; Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell; Murphy, Samuel Beckett; Nineteen Nineteen, John Dos Passos; Party Going, Henry Green; At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien; Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger; The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck; All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren; Joy in the Morning, PG Wodehouse; Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry; The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen; Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis; The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow; Lord of the Flies, William Golding; The End of the Affair, Graham Greene; On the Road, Jack Kerouac; Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov; Voss, Patrick White; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark; To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess; The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing; In Cold Blood, Trueman Capote; A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood; The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath; Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth; Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor; Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison; Rabbit Redux, John Updike; A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul; Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson; New York Trilogy, Paul Auster; Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie; Money, Martin Amis; An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro; The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald; Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler; Amongst Women, John McGahern; Underworld, Don DeLillo; Disgrace, JM Coetzee; True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey