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. 351.
    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  2. 352.
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    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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  3. 353.
    Lake Wobegon Days
    by Garrison Keillor

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  4. 354.
    Death and the Penguin
    by Andrey Kurkov

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  5. 355.
    The Debt to Pleasure
    by John Lanchester

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  6. 356.
    Histoire De Gil Blas de Santillane
    by Alain René Le Sage

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  7. 357.
    Changing Places
    by David Lodge

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  8. 358.
    Nice Work (King Penguin)
    by David Lodge

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  9. 359.
    The Towers of Trebizond
    by Rose Macaulay

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  10. 360.
    England, Their England (Picador Books)
    by A.G. Macdonell

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  11. 361.
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    Whisky Galore
    by Compton Mackenzie

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  12. 362.
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    Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf
    by David Madsen

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  13. 363.
    Cakes and Ale
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  14. 364.
    Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Armistead Maupin

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  15. 365.
    Bright Lights, Big City
    by Jay Mcinerney

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  16. 366.
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    Puckoon
    by Spike Milligan

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  17. 367.
    The Restraint of Beasts
    by Magnus Mills

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  18. 368.
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    Charade
    by John Mortimer

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  19. 369.
    Titmuss Regained
    by John Mortimer

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  20. 370.
    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch

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  21. 371.
    Pnin.
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  22. 372.
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    Pale Fire
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  23. 373.
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    Fireflies
    by Shiva Naipaul

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  24. 374.
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    The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
    by Victor Pelevin

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  25. 375.
    La Disparition (French Language Edition)
    by Georges Perec

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  26. 376.
    Les Revenentes
    by Georges Perec

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  27. 377.
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    La Vie Mode D'Emploi
    by Georges Perec

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  28. 378.
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    My Search for Warren Harding
    by Robert Plunket

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  29. 379.
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    Dance to the Music of Time (12 Books in 4 Volumes, complete)
    by Anthony Powell

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  30. 380.
    A Time to Be Born
    by Dawn Powell

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  31. 381.
    Excellent Women
    by Barbara Pym

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  32. 382.
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    Less Than Angels
    by Barbara Pym

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  33. 383.
    Zazie in the Metro (Penguin Classics)
    by Raymond Queneau

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  34. 384.
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    Solomon Gursky Was Here
    by Mordecai Richler

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  35. 385.
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    Alms for Oblivion
    by Simon Raven

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  36. 386.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  37. 387.
    The Westminster Alice (1902)
    by Hector H. Munro

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  38. 388.
    The Unbearable Bassington
    by Saki

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  39. 389.
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    Hurrah for St. Trinian's and Other Lapses
    by Ronald Searle

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  40. 390.
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    Great Apes
    by Will Self

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  41. 391.
    Porterhouse Blue
    by Tom Sharpe

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  42. 392.
    Blott on the Landscape
    by Tom Sharpe

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  43. 393.
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    Office Politics
    by Wilfrid Sheed

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  44. 394.
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    The Belles Lettres Papers
    by Charles Simmons

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  45. 395.
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    Moo
    by Jane Smiley

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  46. 396.
    Topper Takes a Trip (Dodo Press)
    by Thorne Smith

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  47. 399.
    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
    by Tobias Smollett

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  48. 400.
    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
    by Tobias George Smollett

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