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. 301.
    Queen Lucia
    by E. F. Benson

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  2. 302.
    The Ascent of Rum Doodle
    by W.E. Bowman

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  3. 303.
    A Good Man in Africa: A Novel
    by William Boyd

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  4. 304.
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    The History Man
    by Malcolm Bradbury

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  5. 305.
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    No Bed For Bacon
    by Caryl Brahms And S J Simon

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  6. 306.
    Illywhacker
    by Peter Carey

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  7. 307.
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    A Season in Sinji
    by J.L. Carr

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  8. 308.
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    The Harpole report
    by James Lloyd Carr

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  9. 309.
    The Hearing Trumpet
    by Leonora Carrington

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  10. 310.
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    Mister Johnson
    by Joyce Cary

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  11. 311.
    The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Joyce Cary

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  12. 312.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  13. 313.
    The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen Mysteries)
    by Edmund Crispin

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  14. 314.
    Just William
    by Richmal Crompton

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  15. 315.
    Diary of a Provincial Lady (Prion Humour Classics)
    by E.M. Delafield

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  16. 316.
    Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
    by Peter De Vries

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  17. 317.
    The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  18. 318.
    Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  19. 319.
    Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

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  20. 320.
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    A Fairy Tale of New York
    by J.P. Donleavy

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  21. 321.
    The Commitments
    by Roddy Doyle

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  22. 322.
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    Ennui
    by Maria Edgeworth

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  23. 323.
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    Cheese
    by Willem Elsschot

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  24. 324.
    Bridget Jones's Diary (movie tie-in)
    by Helen Fielding

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  25. 325.
    Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry Fielding

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  26. 326.
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    Tom Jones
    by Henry Fielding

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  27. 327.
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    Caprice
    by Ronald Firbank

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  28. 328.
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    Bouvard et Pecuchet (Classiques Garnier)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  29. 329.
    Towards the End of the Morning
    by Michael Frayn

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  30. 330.
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    The Polygots
    by William Gerhardie

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  31. 331.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Stella Gibbons

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  32. 332.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  33. 333.
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    Oblomov
    by Ivan Goncharov

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  34. 334.
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    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  35. 335.
    Brewster's Millions
    by George Barr McCutcheon

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  36. 336.
    Squire Haggard's Journal (Prion Humour Classics)
    by Michael Frederick Green

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  37. 337.
    Our Man in Havana
    by Graham Greene

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  38. 338.
    Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

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  39. 339.
    The Diary of a Nobody (Prion Humor Classics)
    by George Grossmith

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  40. 340.
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    The Little World Of Don Camillo
    by Giovanni Guareschi

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  41. 341.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

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  42. 342.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  43. 343.
    Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
    by Eric Hodgins

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  44. 344.
    High Fidelity Hb
    by Nick Hornby

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  45. 345.
    I Served the King of England (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Bohumil Hrabal

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  46. 346.
    The Lecturer's Tale: A Novel
    by James Hynes

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  47. 347.
    Mr Norris Changes Trains
    by Christopher Isherwood

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  48. 348.
    Mighty Walzer
    by Howard Jacobson

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  49. 349.
    Pictures from an Institution (Phoenix Fiction Series)
    by Randall Jarrell

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