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. 101.
    The Unbearable Bassington
    by Saki

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  2. 102.
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    Hurrah for St. Trinians and Other Lapses
    by Ronald Searle

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  3. 103.
    Great Apes (Self, Will)
    by Will Self

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  4. 104.
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    Porterhouse Blue
    by Tom Sharpe

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  5. 105.
    Blott on the Landscape
    by Tom Sharpe

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  6. 106.
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    Office Politics
    by Wilfrid Sheed

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  7. 107.
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    The Belles Lettres Papers
    by Charles Simmons

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  8. 108.
    Moo.
    by Jane Smiley

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  9. 109.
    Topper Takes a Trip (Dodo Press)
    by Thorne Smith

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  10. 110.
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    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
    by Tobias Smollet

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  11. 111.
    The Adventures of Roderick Random (Forgotten Books)
    by Tobias George Smollett

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  12. 112.
    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
    by Tobias Smollett

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  13. 113.
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    The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
    by Tobias Smollett

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  14. 114.
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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Muriel Spark

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  15. 115.
    The Girls of Slender Means
    by Muriel Spark

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  16. 116.
    The Driver's Seat (The New Directions Bibelots)
    by Muriel Spark

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  17. 117.
    Loitering with Intent
    by Muriel Spark

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  18. 118.
    A Far Cry from Kensington
    by Muriel Spark

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  19. 120.
    White Man Falling
    by Mike Stocks

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  20. 121.
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    HANDLEY CROSS
    by Unknown

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  21. 122.
    A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  22. 123.
    Penrod (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition)
    by Booth Tarkington

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  23. 124.
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    The Luck of Barry Lyndon
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  24. 125.
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    Before Lunch
    by Angela Thirkell

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  25. 126.
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    Tropic of Ruislip
    by Leslie Thomas

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  26. 127.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  27. 128.
    Barchester Towers
    by Anthony Trollope

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  28. 129.
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    Venus on the Half-Shell and Others
    by Philip Jose Farmer

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  29. 130.
    Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
    by Mark Twain

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  30. 131.
    Witches of Eastwick
    by John Updike

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  31. 132.
    Breakfast of Champions
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  32. 133.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

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  33. 134.
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    Decline and Fall
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  34. 135.
    Vile Bodies
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  35. 136.
    Black Mischief
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  36. 137.
    Scoop
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  37. 138.
    The Loved One
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  38. 139.
    A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  39. 140.
    Life and Loves of a She Devil
    by Fay Weldon

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  40. 141.
    Tono-Bungay (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  41. 142.
    Molesworth
    by Terry Winchell

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  42. 143.
    The Wimbledon Poisoner
    by Nigel Williams

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  43. 144.
    Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Angus Wilson

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  44. 145.
    Something Fresh
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  45. 146.
    Piccadilly Jim
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  46. 147.
    Thank You, Jeeves (Wodehouse, P. G. Collector's Wodehouse.)
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  47. 148.
    Heavy Weather (Everyman Wodehouse)
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  48. 149.
    The Code of the Woosters (Collector's Wodehouse)
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  49. 150.
    Joy in the Morning
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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