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Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (authoritative list)

 

This series contains 995 books.

  1. The Ambassadors

    The Ambassadors (1903)

    by Henry James

  2. Washington Square

    Washington Square (1880)

    by Henry James

  3. The Tortoise and the Hare

    The Tortoise and the Hare

    by Elizabeth Jenkins

  4. The Unfortunates

    The Unfortunates

    by B. S. Johnson

  5. Ulysses

    Ulysses (1922)

    by James Joyce

  6. Good Behaviour

    Good Behaviour (1981)

    by Molly Keane

  7. Memed, My Hawk

    Memed, My Hawk

    by Yashar Kemal, Edouard Roditi

  8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

    by Ken Kesey

  9. The Buddha of Suburbia

    The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)

    by Hanif Kureishi

  10. Cider with Rosie

    Cider with Rosie (1959)

    by Laurie Lee

  11. INVITATION TO THE WALTZ (Virago Modern Classics)

    INVITATION TO THE WALTZ (Virago Modern Classics)

    by Rosamond Lehmann

  12. The Golden Notebook

    The Golden Notebook (1962)

    by Doris Lessing

  13. How Green Was My Valley

    How Green Was My Valley

    by Richard Llewellyn

  14. Martin Eden

    Martin Eden (1909)

    by Jack London

  15. Under the Volcano

    Under the Volcano (1947)

    by Malcolm Lowry

  16. The Member of the Wedding

    The Member of the Wedding

    by Carson McCullers

  17. Palace Walk

    Palace Walk (1956)

    by Naguib Mahfouz

  18. The Assistant

    The Assistant (1951)

    by Bernard Malamud

  19. Buddenbrooks

    Buddenbrooks (1901)

    The Decline of a Family

    by Thomas Mann

  20. The Chateau

    The Chateau

    by William Maxwell

  21. The Rector's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

    The Rector's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

    by F. M. Mayor

  22. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (Penguin Classics)

    The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (Penguin Classics)

    by Edward Mendelson, George Meredith

  23. Family Matters

    Family Matters (2002)

    by Rohinton Mistry

  24. Sour Sweet

    Sour Sweet (1982)

    by Timothy Mo

  25. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

    The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955)

    by Brian Moore

  26. The Bluest Eye

    The Bluest Eye (1970)

    by Toni Morrison

  27. Song of Solomon

    Song of Solomon (1977)

    by Toni Morrison

  28. Who Do You Think You Are?

    Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)

    by Alice Munro

  29. The Black Prince

    The Black Prince (1973)

    by Iris Murdoch

  30. A House for Mr. Biswas

    A House for Mr. Biswas (1961)

    by V. S. Naipaul

  31. At Swim-Two-Birds

    At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

    by Flann O'Brien

  32. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

    Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

    Four Short Novels by Kenzaburo Oe

    by Kenzaburō Ōe

  33. The Moviegoer

    The Moviegoer (1961)

    by Walker Percy

  34. The Bell Jar

    The Bell Jar (1963)

    by Sylvia Plath

  35. My Name is Asher Lev

    My Name is Asher Lev (1972)

    by Chaim Potok

  36. The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    by J. B. Priestley

  37. The Shipping News

    The Shipping News (1993)

    by Annie Proulx

  38. Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 2)

    Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 2)

    The Guermantes Way; Cities of the Plain

    by Proust / Moncrief / Bloss

  39. Married Man

    Married Man (1979)

    by Piers Paul Read

  40. Pointed Roofs

    Pointed Roofs

    by Dorothy Miller Richardson

  41. Call It Sleep

    Call It Sleep

    by Henry Roth

  42. Julie, or the New Heloise

    Julie, or the New Heloise (1760)

    Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  43. The God of Small Things

    The God of Small Things (1998)

    by Arundhati Roy

  44. The Catcher in the Rye

    The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

    by J. D. Salinger

  45. Alberta and Jacob

    Alberta and Jacob

    by Cora Sandel

  46. A Suitable Boy

    A Suitable Boy (1993)

    by Vikram Seth

  47. Unless

    Unless (2003)

    by Carol Shields

  48. We Need to Talk About Kevin

    We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)

    by Lionel Shriver

  49. The Three Sisters

    The Three Sisters

    by May Sinclair

  50. The Family Moskat

    The Family Moskat

    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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