The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must 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.

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  1. 1.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

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    Money
    by Martin Amis

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    The Information
    by Martin Amis

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    The Bottle Factory Outing
    by Beryl Bainbridge

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  5. 5.
    According to Queeney
    by Beryl Bainbridge

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  6. 6.
    Flaubert's Parrot
    by Julian Barnes

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  7. 7.
    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes

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  8. 8.
    Augustus Carp, Esq., Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
    by Sir Henry Bashford

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    Good Man - Henry Howarth Bashford

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  10. 10.
    Molloy
    by Samuel Beckett

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    Zuleika Dobson
    by Max Beerbohn

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  12. 12.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  13. 13.
    The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
    by Alan Bennett

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  14. 14.
    Queen Lucia
    by E. F. Benson

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  15. 15.
    The Ascent of Rum Doodle
    by W.E. Bowman

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  16. 16.
    A Good Man in Africa: A Novel
    by William Boyd

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  17. 17.
    The History Man
    by Malcolm Bradbury

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  18. 18.
    No Bed for Bacon (Common Reader Editions)
    by Caryl Brahms

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    Illywhacker
    by Peter Carey

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    A Season in Sinji
    by J.L. Carr

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    The Harpole report
    by James Lloyd Carr

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  22. 22.
    The Hearing Trumpet
    by Leonora Carrington

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    Mister Johnson.
    by Joyce Cary

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  24. 24.
    The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Joyce Cary

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  25. 25.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  26. 26.
    The Case of the Gilded Fly. Penguin Crime
    by Edmund Crispin

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  27. 27.
    Just William
    by Richmal Crompton

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  28. 28.
    Diary of a Provincial Lady (Prion Humour Classics)
    by E.M. Delafield

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  29. 29.
    Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
    by Peter De Vries

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  30. 30.
    The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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

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    A Fairy Tale of New York
    by James Patrick. Donleavy

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  34. 34.
    The Commitments
    by Roddy Doyle

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  35. 35.
    Ennui

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  36. 36.
    Cheese
    by Willem Elsschot

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  37. 37.
    Bridget Jones's Diary : A Novel
    by Helen Fielding

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  38. 38.
    Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry Fielding

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    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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    CAPRICE
    by Ronald FIRBANK

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    Bouvard and Pécuchet (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    The Polyglots (Prion Lost Treasures)
    by William Gerhardie

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    Towards the End of the Morning
    by Michael Frayn

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  44. 44.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Stella Gibbons

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  45. 45.
    Dead Souls: A Novel
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  46. 46.
    Oblomov
    by Ivan Goncharov

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  47. 47.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  48. 48.
    Brewster's Millions
    by George Barr McCutcheon

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  49. 49.
    Squire Haggard's Journal (Prion Humour Classics)
    by Michael Frederick Green

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  50. 50.
    Our Man in Havana
    by Graham Greene

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Untitled — 40 weeks ago

I changed #275 to the Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell as indicated by place in the alphabet.