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. 401.
    Shipping News: A Novel (Scribner Classics)
    by Annie Proulx

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  2. 402.
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    Remembrance of Things Past (7 volumes)
    by Marcel Proust

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  3. 403.
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    Married Man
    by Piers Paul Read

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  4. 404.
    Pointed Roofs

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  5. 405.
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    The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney

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  6. 406.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  7. 408.
    The God of Small Things: A Novel
    by Arundhati Roy

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  8. 409.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  9. 410.
    Alberta and Jacob (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
    by Cora Sandel

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  10. 411.
    A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Vikram Seth

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  11. 412.
    Unless: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Carol Shields

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  12. 413.
    We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Lionel Shriver

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  13. 414.
    The Three Sisters (Dodo Press)
    by May Sinclair

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  14. 415.
    The Family Moskat: A Novel
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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  15. 416.
    A Thousand Acres: A Novel
    by Jane Smiley

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  16. 417.
    On Beauty
    by Zadie Smith

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  17. 418.
    The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel
    by Christina Stead

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  18. 419.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck

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  19. 420.
    Ballet Shoes
    by Noel Streatfeild

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  20. 421.
    Confessions of Zeno
    by Italo Svevo

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  21. 422.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Booth Tarkington

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  22. 423.
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    Angel
    by Elizabeth Taylor

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  23. 424.
    Lark Rise to Candleford
    by Flora Thompson

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  24. 425.
    The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel
    by Colm Toibin

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  25. 426.
    The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
    by Sue Townsend

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  26. 427.
    Death in Summer
    by William Trevor

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  27. 428.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  28. 430.
    Rabbit Omnibus Uk
    by John Updike

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  29. 431.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  30. 433.
    Morvern Callar
    by Alan Warner

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  31. 434.
    The History of Mr. Polly
    by Herbert George Wells

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  32. 435.
    The Fountain Overflows (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Rebecca West

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  33. 436.
    Frost in May (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Antonia White

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  34. 437.
    The Tree of Man
    by Patrick White

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  35. 438.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

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  36. 439.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  37. 440.
    I'll Go to Bed at Noon: A Novel
    by Gerard Woodward

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  38. 441.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  39. 442.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  40. 443.
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    The Swiss Family Robinson
    by Johann D. Wyss

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  41. 444.
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    Le Grand Meaulines
    by Alain-Fournier

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  42. 445.

  43. 446.
    Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  44. 447.
    Sense and Sensibility (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  45. 448.
    Pride and Prejudice (Enriched Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  46. 449.
    Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  47. 450.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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