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. 51.
    Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

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  2. 52.
    The Diary of a Nobody (Prion Humor Classics)
    by George Grossmith

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  3. 53.
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    The Little World Of Don Camillo
    by Giovanni Guareschi

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  4. 54.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

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  5. 55.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  6. 56.
    Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
    by Eric Hodgins

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  7. 57.
    High Fidelity: A Novel
    by Nick Hornby

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  8. 58.
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    I Served the King of England
    by Bohumil Hrabal

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  9. 59.
    The Lecturer's Tale: A Novel
    by James Hynes

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  10. 60.
    Mr Norris Changes Trains
    by Christopher Isherwood

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  11. 61.
    Mighty Walzer
    by Howard Jacobson

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  12. 62.
    Pictures from an Institution (Phoenix Fiction Series)
    by Randall Jarrell

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  13. 64.
    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  15. 66.
    Lake Wobegon Days
    by Garrison Keillor

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  16. 67.
    Death and the Penguin
    by Andrey Kurkov

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  17. 68.
    The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
    by John Lanchester

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  18. 69.
    Histoire De Gil Blas de Santillane
    by Alain René Le Sage

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  19. 70.
    Changing Places
    by David Lodge

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  20. 71.
    Nice Work (King Penguin)
    by David Lodge

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  21. 72.
    The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Rose Macaulay

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  22. 73.
    England, Their England (Picador Books)
    by A.G. Macdonell

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  23. 74.
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    Whisky Galore
    by Sir Compton Mackenzie

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  24. 76.
    Cakes and Ale
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  25. 77.
    Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Armistead Maupin

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  26. 78.
    Bright Lights, Big City
    by Jay Mcinerney

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  27. 79.
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    Puckoon
    by Spike Milligan

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  28. 80.
    The Restraint of Beasts
    by Magnus Mills

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  29. 81.
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    Charade
    by John Mortimer

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  30. 82.
    Titmuss Regained
    by John Mortimer

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  31. 83.
    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch

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  32. 84.
    Pnin.
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  33. 85.
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    Pale Fire
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  34. 86.
    Fireflies (Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Shiva Naipaul

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  35. 87.
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    The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
    by Victor Pelevin

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  36. 88.
    La Disparition (French Language Edition)
    by Georges Perec

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  37. 89.
    Les Revenentes
    by Georges Perec

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  38. 90.
    La Vie Mode D'Emploi
    by George Perec

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  39. 91.
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    My Search for Warren Harding
    by Robert Plunket

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  40. 93.
    A Time to Be Born
    by Dawn Powell

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  41. 94.
    Excellent Women (Penguin Classics)
    by Barbara Pym

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  42. 95.
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    Less Than Angels
    by Barbara Pym

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  43. 96.
    Zazie in the Metro (Penguin Classics)
    by Raymond Queneau

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  44. 97.
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    Solomon Gursky Was Here
    by Mordecai Richler

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  45. 98.
    Alms for Oblivion: A Shakespearean Murder Mystery
    by Philip Gooden

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  46. 99.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  47. 100.
    The Westminster Alice (1902)
    by Hector H. Munro

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