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. 401.
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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    by Muriel Spark

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  2. 402.
    The Girls of Slender Means
    by Muriel Spark

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  3. 403.
    The Driver's Seat (The New Directions Bibelots)
    by Muriel Spark

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  4. 404.
    Loitering with Intent
    by Muriel Spark

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  5. 405.
    A Far Cry from Kensington
    by Muriel Spark

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  6. 406.
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    Tristram Shandy
    by Laurence Sterne

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  7. 407.
    White Man Falling
    by Mike Stocks

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  8. 408.
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    Handley Cross
    by Robert Smith Surtees

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  9. 409.
    A Tale of A Tub (Great Ideas S.)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  10. 410.
    Penrod (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition)
    by Booth Tarkington

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  11. 411.
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    The Luck of Barry Lyndon
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  12. 412.
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    Before Lunch
    by Angela Thirkell

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  13. 413.
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    Tropic of Ruislip
    by Leslie Thomas

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  14. 414.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  15. 415.
    Barchester Towers
    by Anthony Trollope

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  16. 416.
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    Venus On the Half Shell
    by Kilgore Trout

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  17. 417.
    The Mysterious Stranger
    by Mark Twain

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  18. 418.
    Witches of Eastwick
    by John Updike

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  19. 419.
    Breakfast of Champions
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  20. 420.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

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  21. 421.
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    Decline and Fall
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  22. 422.
    Vile Bodies
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  23. 423.
    Black Mischief
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  24. 424.
    Scoop
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  25. 425.
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    The Loved One
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  26. 426.
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    A Handful Of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  27. 427.
    Life and Loves of a She Devil
    by Fay Weldon

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  28. 428.
    Tono-Bungay (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  29. 429.
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    Molesworth
    by Geoffrey Willians

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  30. 430.
    The Wimbledon Poisoner
    by Nigel Williams

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  31. 431.
    Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Angus Wilson

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  32. 432.
    Something Fresh
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  33. 433.
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    Piccadilly Jim
    by PG Wodehouse

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  34. 434.
    Thank You, Jeeves
    by P. G. Wodehouse

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  35. 435.
    Heavy Weather
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  36. 436.
    The Code of the Woosters
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  37. 437.
    Joy in the Morning
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  38. 438.
    The Face of Another
    by Kobo Abe

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  39. 439.
    Little Women (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  40. 440.
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson

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  41. 441.
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    Cat’s Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

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  42. 442.
    Epileptic
    by David B. (David Beauchard)

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  43. 443.
    Room Temperature
    by Nicholson Baker

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  44. 444.
    Eugenie Grandet (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

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  45. 445.
    Le Pere Goriot
    by Balzac

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  46. 446.
    The Crow Road
    by Iain Banks

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  47. 447.
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    The L Shaped Room
    by Lynne Reid Banks

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  48. 448.
    Fun Home
    by Alison Bechdel

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  49. 449.
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    Malone Dies
    by Samuel Beckett

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  50. 450.
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    A Legacy
    by Sybille Bedford

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