The 100 best novels written in English: the full list (Robert McCrum, The Guardian Dec 2021)
| Book Title | Author | ISBN | ||
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The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan, Roger Lundin, Fay Weldon | 9780451531292 | |
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Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 9780141199061 | |
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Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 9780141196640 | |
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Clarissa - An Abridged Edition | Samuel Richardson, John Richetti, Toni Bowers | 9781551114750 | |
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Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | 9780486831749 | |
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne, Joan New, Melvyn New, Melvyn New, Melvyn New, Sir Christopher Ricks | 9780141439778 | |
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Emma | Jane Austen, Andrew Motion | 9780099589273 | |
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Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 9780241321645 | |
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Nightmare Abbey | Thomas Love Peacock | 9781913724078 | |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket | Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Kopley, Richard Kopley | 9780140437485 | |
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Sybil | Benjamin Disraeli, Nicholas (Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford) Shrimpton | 9780198759898 | |
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Charlotte Bronte | 9780143106159 | |
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Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 9780571337118 | |
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Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 9781857150124 | |
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David Copperfield | Charles Dickens, Dr Adrienne Gavin, Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), Dr Keith Carabine | 9781853260247 | |
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The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ruben Toledo | 9780143105442 | |
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Moby Dick | Herman Melville, Tony Tanner | 9780199535729 | |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures Under Ground | Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel | 9781847494078 | |
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The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins, David Blair, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781853260445 | |
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Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 9780143135562 | |
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Middlemarch | George Eliot | 9780099516231 | |
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The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope, Peter Merchant, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781853262555 | |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain, Peter Coveney | 9780141439648 | |
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Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson, Alistair Gray | 9780141441795 | |
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Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel | Jerome K. Jerome, Jeremy Lewis, Jeremy Lewis, Jeremy Lewis | 9780140437508 | |
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The Sign of Four | Arthur Conan Doyle, Ed Glinert, Peter Ackroyd | 9780140439076 | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde, Peter Harness | 9781509827831 | |
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New Grub Street | George Gissing, Katherine Mullin | 9780198729181 | |
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Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | 9781847498076 | |
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The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 9780486264653 | |
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Dracula | John Paul Riquelme, Bram Stoker | 9781457619328 | |
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Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 9780141199788 | |
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Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Kazin | 9780140188288 | |
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Kim | Rudyard Kipling, Professor Cedric Watts, Professor Cedric Watts, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781853260995 | |
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The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 9780241341490 | |
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The Golden Bowl | Henry James, Ruth Yeazell | 9780141441276 | |
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Hadrian the Seventh | Frederick Rolfe | 9780241313022 | |
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The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame, John Burningham | 9780241353431 | |
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The History of Mr Polly | H. G. Wells, John Sutherland, Professor Simon James, John Sutherland, Professor Simon James | 9780141441078 | |
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Zuleika Dobson | Max Beerbohm | 9781612192925 | |
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The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford, David Bradshaw, David Bradshaw | 9780141441849 | |
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The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 9780241341254 | |
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The Rainbow | D H Lawrence | 9781857151619 | |
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Of Human Bondage | Robert Calder, W. Maugham | 9780140185225 | |
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The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton, Cynthia Wolff, Laura Quinn | 9780140189704 | |
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Ulysses | James Joyce, Professor Cedric Watts, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781840226355 | |
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Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | 9780486431673 | |
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A Passage to India | E.M. Forster, Pankaj Mishra | 9780141441160 | |
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Anita Loos, Jenny McPhee | 9780871403179 | |
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Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 9780241261798 | |
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The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9781509826360 | |
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Lolly Willowes | Sylvia Townsend Warner | 9780241454886 | |
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The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 9780743297332 | |
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The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett | 9780752865331 | |
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As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 9780099479314 | |
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Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 9781784870140 | |
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Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 9780241951514 | |
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John Dos Passos: U.S.A. (LOA #85) | John Dos Passos, Townsend Ludington, Daniel Aaron | 9781883011147 | |
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Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 9780141399133 | |
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Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 9780141184029 | |
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Murphy | Samuel Beckett | 9780571244584 | |
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The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin | 9780241970775 | |
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Loving, Living, Party Going | Henry Green, Sebastian Faulks | 9780099481478 | |
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At Swim-two-birds | Flann O'Brien | 9780141182681 | |
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The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 9780141185064 | |
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Joy in the Morning | P.G. Wodehouse | 9780099513766 | |
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All the King's Men | Robert Warren | 9780156004800 | |
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Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry, Michael Schmidt | 9780141182254 | |
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The Heat of the Day | Elizabeth Bowen | 9780099276463 | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell, Dorian Lynskey | 9781529032666 | |
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The End of the Affair | Graham Greene, Rupert T. Gould, Caroline Butler, Rupert Goold | 9780573018862 | |
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The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | 9780241950432 | |
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The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow, Christopher Hitchens | 9780141184869 | |
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Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 9780571056866 | |
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Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 9780141182537 | |
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On the Road | Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters | 9780241552643 | |
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Voss | Patrick White | 9781841593470 | |
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To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 9780099466734 | |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark, Candia McWilliam | 9780141181424 | |
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Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | 9781857152203 | |
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The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | 9780007498772 | |
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A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 9780241951446 | |
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A Single Man | Christopher Isherwood | 9780099541288 | |
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In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 9780241956830 | |
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The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 9780571226160 | |
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Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth | 9780099399018 | |
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Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont | Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Bailey, Paul Bailey | 9781844083213 | |
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Rabbit Redux | John Updike | 9780141188546 | |
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Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 9780099768418 | |
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A Bend in the River | V.S. Naipaul | 9781529014099 | |
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Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 9780099511892 | |
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Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | 9780571322756 | |
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Money | Martin Amis, Andrew O'Hagan | 9780099461883 | |
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An Artist of the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro | 9780571283873 | |
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The Beginning of Spring | Penelope Fitzgerald, Miller | 9780006543701 | |
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Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler | 9780099201410 | |
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Amongst Women | John McGahern | 9780571315543 | |
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Underworld | Don DeLillo | 9780330524971 | |
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Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee | 9780099289524 | |
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True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey | 9780571270156 |