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. 351.
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    The Vatican Cellars
    by Andre Gide

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  2. 352.
    The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Oliver Goldsmith

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  3. 353.

  4. 355.
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    Shrimp and the Anemone (Faber Fiction Classics)
    by L. P. Hartley

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  5. 356.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  6. 357.
    Steppenwolf: A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

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  7. 358.
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    Narziss and Goldmund
    by Herman Hesse

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  8. 359.
    The Three Paradoxes
    by Paul Hornschemeier

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  9. 360.
    Tom Brown's Schooldays (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hughes

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  10. 361.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  11. 362.
    The Ambassadors
    by James Henry

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  12. 363.
    Washington Square (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  13. 364.
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    The Tortoise and the Hare
    by Elizabeth Jenkins

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  14. 365.
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    The Unfortunates (New Directions Paperbook)
    by B. S. Johnson

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  15. 366.

  16. 367.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

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  17. 368.
    Good Behaviour
    by Molly Keane

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  18. 369.
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    Mehmed My Hawk
    by Yasar Kemal

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  19. 370.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

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  20. 371.
    Buddha of Suburbia (FF Classics)
    by Hanif Kureishi

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  21. 372.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  22. 373.
    Cider with Rosie (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Laurie Lee

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  23. 374.
    Invitation to the Waltz
    by Rosamond Lehmann

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  24. 375.
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    The Golden Notebook: A Novel
    by Doris Lessing

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  25. 376.
    How Green Was My Valley
    by Richard Llewellyn

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  26. 377.
    Martin Eden
    by Jack London

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  27. 378.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  28. 379.
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    The Member of the Wedding
    by Carson McCullers

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  29. 380.
    Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  30. 381.
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    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud

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  31. 383.
    The Chateau
    by William Maxwell

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  32. 384.
    The Rectors Daughter (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.M. Mayor

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  33. 386.
    Family Matters
    by Rohinton Mistry

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  34. 387.
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    Sour Sweet
    by Timothy Mo

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  35. 388.
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    The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
    by Brian Moore

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  36. 389.
    The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
    by Toni Morrison

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  37. 390.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  38. 391.
    Who do you Think you are?
    by Alice Munro

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  39. 392.
    The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

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  40. 393.
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    Man Without Qualities
    by Robert Musil

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  41. 394.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  42. 395.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

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  43. 396.
    Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
    by Kenzaburo Oe

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  44. 397.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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  45. 398.
    Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  46. 399.
    My Name Is Asher Lev
    by Chaim Potok

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  47. 400.
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    The Good Companions (Phoenix Fiction)
    by J. B. Priestley

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