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. 301.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

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  2. 302.
    Epileptic
    by David B.

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  3. 303.
    Room Temperature
    by Nicholson Baker

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  4. 304.
    Eugenie Grandet (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

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  5. 305.
    Le Pere Goriot
    by Balzac

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  6. 306.
    The Crow Road
    by Iain Banks

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  7. 307.
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    The L Shaped Room
    by Lynne Reid Banks

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  8. 308.
    Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
    by Alison Bechdel

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  9. 309.
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    Malone Dies
    by Samuel Beckett

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  10. 310.
    A Legacy: A Novel
    by Sybille Bedford

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  11. 311.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  12. 312.
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    Humboldt's Gift
    by Saul Bellow

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  13. 313.
    The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
    by Arnold Bennett

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  14. 314.
    G.: A Novel
    by John Berger

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  15. 315.
    Extinction
    by Thomas Bernhard

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  16. 316.
    Two Serious Ladies (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
    by Jane Bowles

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  17. 317.
    Any Human Heart
    by William Boyd

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  18. 318.
    Death of Virgil
    by Hermann Broch

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  19. 320.
    The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)
    by Samuel Butler

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  20. 321.
    The Sound of My Voice (Five Star Fiction)
    by Ron Butlin

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  21. 322.
    The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

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  22. 323.
    Wise Children: A Novel
    by Angela Carter

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  23. 324.
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    The Professor’s House
    by Willa Cather

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  24. 325.
    The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
    by John Cheever

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  25. 326.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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  26. 327.
    Les Enfants Terribles
    by Jean Cocteau

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  27. 328.
    The Vagabond
    by Colette

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  28. 329.
    Manservant and Maidservant (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Ivy Compton-Burnett

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  29. 330.
    Being Dead: A Novel
    by Jim Crace

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  30. 331.
    Quarantine: A Novel
    by Jim Crace

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  31. 332.
    The Mandarins

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  32. 333.
    Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  33. 334.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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  34. 335.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  35. 336.
    My New York Diary
    by Julie Doucet

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  36. 337.
    The Millstone
    by Margaret Drabble

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  37. 338.
    My Family and Other Animals
    by Gerald Durrell

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  38. 339.
    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

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  39. 340.
    The Gathering: A Novel
    by Anne Enright

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  40. 341.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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  41. 342.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  42. 343.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  43. 344.
    The Sportswriter
    by Richard Ford

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  44. 345.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

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  45. 346.
    Spies
    by Michael Frayn

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  46. 347.
    Hideous Kinky
    by Esther Freud

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  47. 348.
    Man of Property (The Forsyte Saga)
    by John Galsworthy

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  48. 349.
    Mary Barton (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

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  49. 350.
    The Immoralist (Penguin Classics)
    by Andre Gide

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