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The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

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.

(found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction)

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1. Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
  
2.
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 Money
by Martin Amis
  
3.
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 The Information
by Martin Amis
  
4. The Bottle Factory Outing
by Beryl Bainbridge
  
5. According to Queeney
by Beryl Bainbridge
  
6. Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
  
7. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
by Julian Barnes
  
8. Augustus Carp, Esq., Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
by Sir Henry Bashford
  
9.
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 Good Man - Henry Howarth Bashford  
10. Molloy
by Samuel Beckett
  
11. Zuleika Dobson
by Max Beerbohn
  
12. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
13. The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
by Alan Bennett
  
14. Queen Lucia
by E. F. Benson
  
15. The Ascent of Rum Doodle
by W.E. Bowman
  
16. A Good Man in Africa: A Novel
by William Boyd
  
17. The History Man
by Malcolm Bradbury
  
18. No Bed for Bacon (Common Reader Editions)
by Caryl Brahms
  
19. Illywhacker
by Peter Carey
  
20.
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 A Season in Sinji
by J.L. Carr
  
21.
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 The Harpole report
by James Lloyd Carr
  
22. The Hearing Trumpet
by Leonora Carrington
  
23.
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 Mister Johnson.
by Joyce Cary
  
24. The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
by Joyce Cary
  
25. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
26. The Case of the Gilded Fly. Penguin Crime
by Edmund Crispin
  
27. Just William
by Richmal Crompton
  
28. Diary of a Provincial Lady (Prion Humour Classics)
by E.M. Delafield
  
29. Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
by Peter De Vries
  
30. The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
31. Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
32. Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics)
by Denis Diderot
  
33.
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 A Fairy Tale of New York
by James Patrick. Donleavy
  
34. The Commitments
by Roddy Doyle
  
35. Ennui  
36. Cheese
by Willem Elsschot
  
37.
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 Bridget Jones's Diary : A Novel
by Helen Fielding
  
38. Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Henry Fielding
  
39. Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
40.
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 CAPRICE
by Ronald FIRBANK
  
41. Bouvard and Pécuchet (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
42. The Polyglots (Prion Lost Treasures)
by William Gerhardie
  
43. Towards the End of the Morning
by Michael Frayn
  
44. Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Stella Gibbons
  
45. Dead Souls: A Novel
by Nikolai Gogol
  
46. Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
  
47. The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
by Kenneth Grahame
  
48. Brewster's Millions
by George Barr McCutcheon
  
49. Squire Haggard's Journal (Prion Humour Classics)
by Michael Frederick Green
  
50.
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 Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene
  
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