Saturday 10 December 2016

Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read

1 Middlemarch by George Eliot
2 Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
3 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
5 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
6 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
7 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
8 Disgrace by JM Coetzee
9 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
10 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
11 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
12 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
13 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
14 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
15 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
16 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
17 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
18 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
19 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
20 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
21 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
22 A Passage to India by EM Forster
23 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
24 Ulysses by James Joyce
25 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
26 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
27 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
28 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
29 La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec
30 Atonement by Ian McEwan
31 Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
32 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
33 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
34 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
35 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
36 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
37 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
38 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
39 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
40 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
41 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
42 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
43 The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike
44 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
45 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
46 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
47 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
48 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
49 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
50 Beloved by Toni Morrison
51 Underworld by Don DeLillo
52 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
53 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
54 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
55 Austerlitz by WG Sebald
56 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
57 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
58 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
59 London Fields by Martin Amis
60 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
61 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
62 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
63 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
64 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
65 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
66 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
67 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
68 Crash by JG Ballard
69 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
70 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
71 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
72 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
73 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
74 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan
75 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
76 The Trial by Franz Kafka
77 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
78 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
79 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
80 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
81 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
82 The Stranger by Albert Camus
83 Germinal by Emile Zola
84 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
86 Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
87 On The Road by Jack Kerouac
88 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
89 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
90 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
91 The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
92 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
93 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
94 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
95 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
96 One Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous
97 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
98 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
99 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
100 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/100-novels-everyone-should-read/

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