Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Should Read

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Selected by the Guardian’s Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any decade and in any language. Originally published in thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel – they appear here for the first time in a single list.

The novels are organised into themes:
Love: #1 – 141
Crime: #142 – 288
Comedy: #289 – 437
Family and Self: #438 – 583
State of the Nation: #584 – 717
Science Fiction and Fantasy: #718 – 866
War and Travel: #867 – 998

Note: In the list provided by The Guardian at the link below, there are only 998 books. The Guardian has been informed.

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  1. 901.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford

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  2. 902.
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    The African Queen
    by C.S. Forester

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  3. 903.
    The Ship
    by C. S. Forester

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  4. 904.
    Flashman: A Novel (Flashman)
    by George MacDonald Fraser

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  5. 905.
    Cold Mountain
    by Charles Frazier

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  6. 906.
    The Beach
    by Alex Garland

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  7. 907.
    To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy
    by William Golding

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  8. 908.
    Asterix the Gaul (Asterix)
    by Rene Goscinny

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  9. 909.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass

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  10. 910.
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    Count Belisarius
    by Robert Graves

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  11. 911.
    Life and Fate
    by Vasily Grossman

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  12. 912.
    De Niro's Game
    by Hage Rawi

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  13. 913.
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    King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics)
    by H.Rider Haggard

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  14. 914.
    She: A History of Adventure (Forgotten Books)
    by Henry Rider Haggard

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  15. 915.
    The Slaves of Solitude (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Patrick Hamilton

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  16. 916.
    Covenant with Death
    by John Harris

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  17. 917.
    Enigma
    by Robert Harris

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  18. 919.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  19. 920.
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    The Prisoner of Zenda
    by Anthony Hope

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  20. 921.
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    Kite Runner
    by Khaled Hosseini

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  21. 922.
    A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes

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  22. 924.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

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  23. 925.
    Andersonville (Plume)
    by MacKinlay Kantor

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  24. 926.
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    Confederates
    by Thomas Keneally

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  25. 927.
    Schindlers Ark (Coronet Books)
    by Thomas Keneally

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  26. 928.
    Day (paperback)
    by A.L. Kennedy

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  27. 929.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  28. 930.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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  29. 931.
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    Painted Bird
    by Jerzy Kosinski

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  30. 932.
    If Not Now, When? (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Primo Levi

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  31. 933.
    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London

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  32. 934.
    The Guns of Navarone
    by Alistair MacLean

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  33. 935.
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    All the Pretty Horses
    by Cormac McCarthy

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  35. 937.
    The Mark of Zorro (Townsend Library Edition)
    by Johnston McCulley

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  36. 938.
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    Lonesome Dove
    by Larry McMurty

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  37. 939.
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    The Naked And The Dead
    by Norman Mailer

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  38. 940.
    LA Condition Humaine
    by Andre Malraux

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  39. 941.
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    Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy
    by Olivia Manning

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  40. 942.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  41. 943.
    The Children of the New Forest (Yesterday's Classics)
    by Frederick Marryat

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  42. 944.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  43. 945.
    Tales of the South Pacific
    by James A. Michener

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  44. 946.
    The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
    by Nicholas Monsarrat

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  45. 947.
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    History
    by Elsa Morante

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  46. 948.
    Suite Francaise
    by Irene Nemirovsky

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  47. 949.
    The Sorrow of War
    by Bao Ninh

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  48. 950.
    Master and Commander
    by Patrick O'Brian

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