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Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Should Read

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.

(found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction)

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1. Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Classics)
by Henri Alain-Fournier
  
2.
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 Dom Casmurro Joaquim
by Maria Machado de Assis
  
3. Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
4. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
5. Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
6. Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
7. Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
8. Persuasion
by Jane Austen
  
9. Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
  
10. Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
  
11. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
by Giorgio Bassani
  
12.
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 Love For Lydia
by H.E. Bates
  
13. More Die of Heartbreak (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
14. Lorna Doone (Penguin Classics)
by R. D. Blackmore
  
15. The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
  
16. The Heat of the Day
by Elizabeth Bowen
  
17. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
18. Villette (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
19. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
20. Look at Me
by Anita Brookner
  
21. Rubyfruit Jungle
by Rita Mae Brown
  
22. Possession A. S.. Byatt
by A S BYATT
  
23. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Truman Capote
  
24. Oscar and Lucinda
by Carey Peter
  
25. A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics)
by J.L. Carr
  
26. My Antonia (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
by Willa Cather
  
27. A Lost Lady (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
by Willa Cather
  
28.
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 Claudine à l'école
by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
  
29.
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 Chéri
by Colette
  
30.
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 Victory : an island tale (Collected edition of the works of Joseph Conrad)
by Joseph Conrad
  
31.
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 The Princess of Cleves
by Madame de La Fayette
  
32.
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 The Parasites
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
33. Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
  
34. The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
  
35.
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 Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
by Ed. Margaret Reynolds George Eliot
  
36. Daniel Deronda (Modern Library Classics)
by George Eliot
  
37. The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
38. The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
39. The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  
40. Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
41. The Blue Flower
by Penelope Fitzgerald
  
42. Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
43.
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 The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Ford Maddox Ford
  
44. A Room With a View
by E. M. Forster
  
45. The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
  
46. The Snow Goose
by Paul Gallico
  
47. Ruth (Oxford World's Classics)
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  
48. Strait is the Gate (La Porte etroite)
by Andre Gide
  
49. Sunset Song (Dodo Press)
by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  
50. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  
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Created by Athena08 on Jan 21, 2009.