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. 951.
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    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien

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  2. 952.
    The Scarlet Pimpernel
    by Baroness Emmuska

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  3. 953.
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    Burmese Days
    by George Orwell

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  4. 954.
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    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    by Pirsig Robert

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  5. 955.
    The Valley of Bones
    by Anthony Powell

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  6. 956.
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    The Soldier's Art
    by Anthony Powell

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  7. 957.
    The Military Philosophers
    by Anthony Powell

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  8. 958.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  9. 959.
    The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
    by Rudolph Erich Raspe

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  10. 960.
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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  11. 962.
    Tintin in Tibet
    by Herge

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  12. 963.

  13. 964.
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    The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
    by Joao Guimaraes Rosa

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  14. 965.
    Scaramouche
    by Rafael Sabatini

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  15. 966.
    Captain Blood: His Odyssey
    by Rafael Sabatini

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  16. 967.
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    Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
    by Jonathan Safran Foer

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  17. 968.
    The Hunters: A Novel
    by James Salter

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  18. 969.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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  19. 970.
    The Rings of Saturn
    by W.G. Sebald

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  20. 971.
    Austerlitz
    by W.G. Sebald

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  21. 972.
    Black Beauty
    by Anna Sewell

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  22. 973.
    The Young Lions
    by Irwin Shaw

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  23. 974.
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    A Town Like Alice
    by Nevil Shute Norway

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  24. 975.
    The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
    by Art Spiegelman

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  25. 976.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

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  26. 977.
    Cryptonomicon
    by Neal Stephenson

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  27. 978.
    A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
    by Laurence Sterne

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  28. 979.
    Kidnapped (Penguin Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  29. 980.
    Treasure Island (Enriched Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  30. 981.
    A Flag for Sunrise
    by Robert Stone

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  31. 982.
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    Sophie's Choice

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  32. 983.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  33. 984.
    War And Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  34. 985.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  35. 986.
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    Around the World in Eighty Days
    by Jules Verne

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  36. 987.
    Journey to the Centre of the Earth
    by Jules Verne

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  37. 988.
    Williwaw: A Novel
    by Gore Vidal

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  38. 989.
    Candide
    by Voltaire

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  39. 990.
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    Slaughter-House Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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  40. 991.
    Put Out More Flags
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  41. 992.
    Men at Arms (Sword of honour)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  42. 993.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  43. 994.
    Machine-gunners (New Windmills)
    by Robert Westall

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  44. 995.
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    Voss
    by Patrick White

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  45. 996.
    The Virginian (Enriched Classics)
    by Owen Wister

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  46. 997.
    The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
    by Herman Wouk

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  47. 998.
    The Debacle: 1870-71 (The Penguin Classics)
    by Emile Zola

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