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. 101.
    The Pursuit of Love
    by Nancy Mitford

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  2. 102.
    Love in a Cold Climate
    by Nancy Mitford

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  3. 103.
    Arturo's Island: A Novel (Italia Series)
    by Elsa Morante

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  4. 104.
    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami

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  5. 105.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  6. 106.
    The Painter of Signs (Penguin Classics)
    by R. K. Narayan

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  7. 107.
    Delta of Venus
    by Anais Nin

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  8. 108.
    All Souls Day
    by Cees Nooteboom

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  9. 109.
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

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  10. 110.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  11. 111.
    Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Abbe Prevost

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  12. 112.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

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  13. 113.
    Maurice Guest (Dodo Press)
    by Henry Handel Richardson

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  14. 114.
    Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

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  15. 116.
    Gilead: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  16. 117.
    BONJOUR TRISTESSE.
    by SAGAN FRANCOISE.

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  17. 118.
    Ali and Nino: A Love Story
    by Kurban Said

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  18. 119.
    Light Years
    by James Salter

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  19. 120.
    A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel
    by James Salter

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  20. 121.
    The Reader (MTI) (Vintage International)
    by Bernhard Schlink

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  21. 122.
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    The Reluctant Orphan
    by Sara Seale

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  22. 123.
    Love Story
    by Erich Segal

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  23. 124.
    Enemies: A Love Story
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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  24. 125.
    By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
    by Elizabeth Smart

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  25. 126.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith

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  26. 127.
    The Map of Love: A Novel
    by Ahdaf Soueif

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  27. 128.
    Valley of the Dolls (Susann, Jacqueline)
    by Jacqueline Susann

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  28. 129.
    Waterland
    by Graham Swift

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  29. 130.
    Diary of a Mad Old Man
    by Junichiro Tanizaki

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  30. 131.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  31. 132.
    Music & Silence
    by Rose Tremain

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  32. 133.
    First Love (Penguin Great Loves)
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  33. 134.
    Breathing Lessons: A Novel
    by Anne Tyler

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  34. 135.

  35. 136.
    The Night Watch
    by Sarah Waters

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  36. 137.
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    The Graduate
    by Charles Webb

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  37. 138.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  38. 139.
    The Passion (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  39. 140.
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    East Lynne
    by Ellen Wood

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  40. 141.

  41. 142.
    The Man With the Golden Arm
    by Nelson Algren

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  42. 143.
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    Fantômas (1911)
    by Pierre Souvestre & Marcel Allain

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  43. 144.
    The Mask of Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler

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  44. 145.
    Epitaph for a Spy

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  45. 146.
    Journey Into Fear
    by Eric Ambler

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  46. 147.
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  47. 148.
    Trent's Last Case (Dover Mystery Classics)
    by E. C. Bentley

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  48. 149.
    The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Pocket Books #814)
    by Anthony Berkeley

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  49. 150.
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    The beast must die
    by Nicholas Blake

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