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. 52.
    The End of the Affair
    by Graham Greene

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  2. 53.
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    The Well of Loneliness
    by Radclyffe Hall

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  3. 54.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  4. 55.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Red Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  5. 56.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  7. 58.
    The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics)
    by L. P. Hartley

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  8. 59.
    The Scarlet Letter
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  9. 60.
    The Transit of Venus
    by Shirley Hazzard

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  10. 61.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  11. 62.
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    An Infamous Army
    by Georgette Heyer

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  12. 63.
    Regency Buck
    by Georgette Heyer

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  13. 64.
    Swimming Pool Library
    by Alan Hollinghurst

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  14. 65.
    Green Mansions--A Romance of the Tropical Forest
    by W. H. Hudson

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  15. 66.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  16. 67.
    Crome Yellow
    by Aldous Huxley

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  17. 68.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  18. 69.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  19. 70.
    The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  20. 71.
    The Piano Teacher: A Novel
    by Elfriede Jelinek

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  21. 72.
    Beauty and Sadness
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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  22. 73.
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    The Far Pavilions
    by M. M. Kaye

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  23. 74.
    Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics)
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

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  24. 75.
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    Moon Over Africa
    by Pamela Kent

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  25. 76.
    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
    by Milan Kundera

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  26. 77.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan/ Heim, Michael Henry (TRN)/ Heim, Michael Henry Kundera

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  27. 78.
    Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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  28. 79.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    by D. H. Lawrence

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  29. 80.
    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  30. 81.
    Women In Love (Vintage Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  31. 82.
    The Echoing Grove (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Rosamond Lehmann

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  32. 83.
    The Weather in the Streets
    by Rosamond Lehmann

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  33. 86.
    Foreign Affairs: A Novel
    by Alison Lurie

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  34. 87.
    Samarkand (Interlink World Fiction)
    by Amin Maalouf

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  35. 88.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

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  36. 89.
    The Silent Duchess
    by Dacia Maraini

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  37. 90.
    A Heart So White
    by Javier Marias

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  38. 91.
    Love in the Time of Cholera (MTI) (Vintage International)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  39. 92.
    Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  40. 93.
    So Long, See You Tomorrow (Panther)
    by William Maxwell

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  41. 94.
    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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  42. 95.
    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan

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  43. 96.
    The Child in Time
    by Ian Mcewan

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  44. 97.
    The Egoist
    by George Meredith

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  45. 98.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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  46. 99.
    Patience und Sarah.
    by Isabel Miller

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  47. 100.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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