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. 251.
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    The strange boarders of Palace Crescent hardcover 1934
    by Phillips Oppenheim

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  2. 252.
    My Name Is Red
    by Orhan Pamuk

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  3. 253.
    Toxic Shock (A V. I. Warshawski Novel)
    by Sara Paretsky

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  4. 254.
    Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski Novels (Paperback))
    by Sara Paretsky

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  5. 255.
    Nineteen Seventy-Four (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by David Peace

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  6. 256.
    Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding Quartet)
    by David Peace

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  7. 257.
    The Big Blowdown
    by George Pelecanos

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  8. 258.
    Hard Revolution
    by George P. Pelecanos

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  9. 259.
    Lush Life: A Novel
    by Richard Price

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  10. 260.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

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  11. 261.
    V. (Perennial Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  12. 262.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  13. 263.
    Black and Blue (Inspector Rebus)
    by Ian Rankin

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  14. 264.
    The Hanging Garden (An Inspector Rebus Novel)
    by Ian Rankin

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  15. 265.
    Exit Music
    by Ian Rankin

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  16. 266.
    A Judgement in Stone
    by Ruth Rendell

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  17. 267.
    Live Flesh
    by Ruth Rendell

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  18. 268.
    Dissolution
    by C. J. Sansom

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  19. 269.
    Whose Body?
    by Dorothy Sayers

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  20. 270.
    Murder Must Advertise
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  21. 271.
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    The Madman of Bergerac
    by Georges Simenon

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  22. 272.
    The Blue Room (Crime Masterworks)
    by Georges Simenon

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  23. 273.
    The Laughing Policeman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Per Wahloo

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  24. 274.
    Gorky Park: A Novel (Mortalis.)
    by Martin Cruz Smith

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  25. 275.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  26. 276.
    The League of Frightened Men
    by Rex Stout

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  27. 277.
    Perfume (MTI)
    by Patrick Suskind

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  28. 278.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

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  29. 279.
    The Daughter of Time
    by Josephine Tey

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  30. 280.
    The Getaway (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Jim Thompson

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  31. 282.
    A Dark-adapted Eye
    by Barbara Vine

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  32. 283.
    A Fatal Inversion
    by Barbara Vine

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  33. 284.
    King Solomon's Carpet
    by Barbara Vine

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  34. 285.
    The Four Just Men
    by Edgar Wallace

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  35. 286.
    Fingersmith
    by Sarah Waters

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  36. 287.
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    Native Son (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
    by Richard Wright

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  37. 288.
    Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics)
    by Ãmile Zola

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  38. 289.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

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  39. 290.
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    Money
    by Martin Amis

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  40. 291.
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    The Information
    by Martin Amis

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  41. 292.
    The Bottle Factory Outing
    by Beryl Bainbridge

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  42. 293.
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    According to Queeney
    by Beryl Bainbridge

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  43. 294.
    Flaubert's Parrot
    by Julian Barnes

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  44. 295.
    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes

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  45. 296.
    Augustus Carp, Esq., Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
    by Sir Henry Bashford

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  46. 297.
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    Molloy
    by Samuel Beckett

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  47. 298.
    Zuleika Dobson
    by Max Beerbohm

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  48. 299.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  49. 300.
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    The Uncommon Reader
    by Alan Bennett

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