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Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (authoritative list)

 

This series contains 995 books.

  1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

    by Milan Kundera

  2. Dangerous Liaisons

    Dangerous Liaisons (1782)

    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  3. Lady Chatterley's Lover

    Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

    by D. H. Lawrence

  4. Women in Love

    Women in Love (1920)

    by D. H. Lawrence

  5. The Rainbow

    The Rainbow (1915)

    by D. H. Lawrence

  6. The Echoing Grove (Virago Modern Classics)

    The Echoing Grove (Virago Modern Classics)

    by Rosamond Lehmann

  7. The Weather in the Streets

    The Weather in the Streets

    by Rosamond Lehmann

  8. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925)

    by Anita Loos

  9. Zami

    Zami (1982)

    A New Spelling of My Name

    by Audre Lorde

  10. Foreign Affairs

    Foreign Affairs (1984)

    by Alison Lurie

  11. Samarkand

    Samarkand (1988)

    by Amin Maalouf

  12. Death in Venice

    Death in Venice (1912)

    by Thomas Mann

  13. The Silent Duchess

    The Silent Duchess (1998)

    by Dacia Maraini

  14. A Heart So White

    A Heart So White (1992)

    by Javier Marías

  15. Love in the Time of Cholera

    Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

    by Gabriel García Márquez

  16. Of Human Bondage

    Of Human Bondage (1915)

    by W. Somerset Maugham

  17. So Long, See You Tomorrow

    So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)

    by William Maxwell

  18. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

    by Carson McCullers

  19. Atonement

    Atonement (2001)

    by Ian McEwan

  20. The Child in Time

    The Child in Time (1987)

    by Ian McEwan

  21. The Egoist

    The Egoist

    A Comedy in Narrative

    by George Meredith

  22. Tropic of Cancer

    Tropic of Cancer (1934)

    by Henry Miller

  23. Patience & Sarah

    Patience & Sarah (1969)

    by Isabel Miller

  24. Gone With the Wind

    Gone With the Wind (1936)

    by Margaret Mitchell

  25. The Pursuit of Love

    The Pursuit of Love (1945)

    by Nancy Mitford

  26. Love in a Cold Climate

    Love in a Cold Climate (1949)

    by Nancy Mitford

  27. Arturo's Island: A Novel (Italia Series)

    Arturo's Island: A Novel (Italia Series) (1957)

    by Elsa Morante

  28. Norwegian Wood

    Norwegian Wood (1987)

    by Haruki Murakami

  29. Lolita

    Lolita (1955)

    by Vladimir Nabokov

  30. The Painter of Signs

    The Painter of Signs (1976)

    by R. K. Narayan

  31. Delta of Venus

    Delta of Venus (1977)

    by Anaïs Nin

  32. All Souls' Day

    All Souls' Day

    by Cees Nooteboom

  33. The English Patient

    The English Patient (1992)

    by Michael Ondaatje

  34. Doctor Zhivago

    Doctor Zhivago (1957)

    by Boris Pasternak

  35. Manon Lescaut

    Manon Lescaut (1731)

    by Abbe Prevost

  36. Wide Sargasso Sea
    This book is based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

    Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

    by Jean Rhys

  37. Maurice Guest (Virago Modern Classic)

    Maurice Guest (Virago Modern Classic)

    by Henry Handel Richardson

  38. Pamela

    Pamela (1742)

    or, Virtue Rewarded

    by Samuel Richardson

  39. Clarissa

    Clarissa (1749)

    or, The History of a Young Lady

    by Samuel Richardson

  40. Gilead

    Gilead (2004)

    by Marilynne Robinson

  41. Bonjour Tristesse

    Bonjour Tristesse (1954)

    by Françoise Sagan

  42. Ali and Nino

    Ali and Nino (1937)

    A Love Story

    by Kurban Said

  43. Light Years

    Light Years (1975)

    by James Salter

  44. A Sport and a Pastime

    A Sport and a Pastime

    by James Salter

  45. The Reader

    The Reader (1998)

    by Bernhard Schlink

  46. Love Story

    Love Story (1970)

    by Erich Segal

  47. Enemies, a Love Story

    Enemies, a Love Story (1972)

    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

  48. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

    By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

    by Elizabeth Smart

  49. I Capture the Castle

    I Capture the Castle (1949)

    by Dodie Smith

  50. The Map of Love

    The Map of Love (1999)

    by Ahdaf Soueif

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