Carmen Callil & Colm Toibin 200 best novels from 1950 to 1998. List is in chronological order. Actually 202 novels. Callil and Tóibín’s determination to ignore the distinction between so-called popular fiction and literary fiction (also so-called) results in a selection featuring novels for readers of every age and taste, for those who have never read a novel before and for experts who want to quarrel with the choice. There are long novels and short novels; novels for surrealists and romantics; for wits and for murder fiends; for Cold War fanatics and for lovers of Dickens and Eliot. The selection is truly international with novels from India, Pakistan, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Scotland, the USA, Australia, Canada, Africa, the Caribbean, Hong Kong and more. Although acknowledging that any list such as this is a matter of personal choice, the authors state that they looked for the same quality in every choice – ‘a certain genius in the work, a certain excitement in the reading, and a feeling that you would love to hand this book to someone else to read’. The authors hope that indignation, as well as pleasure, will be among the first reactions to this selection.
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A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple)
by Agatha Christie
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Nothing
by Henry Green
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Power Without Glory
by Frank Hardy
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The Grand Sophy
by Georgette Heyer
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December Bride
by Sam Hanna Bell
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My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier
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The West Pier (Modern Classics)
by Patrick Hamilton
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Carson McCullers
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A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
by Anthony Powell
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
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The Financial Expert (Phoenix Fiction Series)
by R. K. Narayan
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Wise Blood: A Novel
by Flannery O'Connor
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library)
by Evelyn Waugh
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Private life of an Indian prince
by Mulk Raj Anand
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
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The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics)
by L. P. Hartley
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The Echoing Grove (Virago Modern Classics)
by Rosamond Lehmann
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The Palm-Wine Drunkard
by Amos Tutola
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Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
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Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
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The Tortoise and the Hare (Virago Modern Classics)
by Elizabeth Jenkins
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The Flint Anchor
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
by Samuel Beckett
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The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
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Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
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A Legacy (Penguin Classics)
by Sybille Bedford
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Train to Pakistan
by Khushwant Singh
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Owls Do Cry (A Women's Press Classic)
by Janet Frame
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On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
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Angel (Virago Modern Classics)
by Elizabeth Taylor
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The Fountain Overflows (New York Review Books Classics)
by Rebecca West
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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Anecdotes of Destiny (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Isak Dinesen
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From the Terrace: A Novel
by John O'Hara
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Plume Contemporary Fiction)
by Alan Sillitoe
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
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A Heritage and its History
by Ivy Compton-Burnett
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The Little Disturbances of Man (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Grace Paley
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
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Balkan Trilogy
by Olivia Manning
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Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library)
by John Updike
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Jeeves in the Offing
by P.G. Wodehouse
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Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
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