The Observer's "100 greatest novels of all time"

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Published 12 October 2003

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  1. 1.
    Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics)
    by Miguel De Cervantes

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  2. 2.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by John Bunyan

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  3. 3.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  4. 4.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  5. 6.
    Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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  6. 7.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  7. 8.
    Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin English Library El 45)
    by Thomas Love Peacock

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  8. 9.
    The Black Sheep (Penguin Classics)
    by Honoré de Balzac

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  9. 10.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)
    by Stendhal

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  10. 11.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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  11. 12.
    Sybil, or the Two Nations
    by Benjamin Disraeli

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  12. 13.
    David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  13. 14.
    Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Emily Bronte

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  14. 15.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  15. 16.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  16. 17.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  17. 18.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  18. 19.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  19. 20.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged Classics)
    by Lewis Carroll

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  20. 21.
    Little Women (Penguin Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  21. 22.
    The Way We Live Now (Penguin Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  22. 23.
    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  23. 24.
    Daniel Deronda (Modern Library Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  24. 25.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  25. 26.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  26. 27.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  27. 28.
    Three Men in a Boat (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Jerome K. Jerome

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  28. 30.
    The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Classics)
    by George Grossmith

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  29. 31.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  30. 32.
    The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
    by Erskine Childers

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  31. 33.
    Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  32. 34.
    The Wind in the Willows (Unabridged Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  33. 35.
    In Search of Lost Time
    by Marcel Proust

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  34. 36.
    The Good Soldier (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Ford Madox Ford

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  35. 37.
    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics)
    by John Buchan

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  36. 38.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  37. 39.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  38. 40.
    The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  39. 41.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  40. 42.
    Men Without Women
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  41. 43.
    Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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  42. 44.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  43. 45.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  44. 46.
    Scoop
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  45. 47.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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  46. 48.
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    The Pursuit Of Love
    by Nancy Mitford

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  47. 49.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  48. 50.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

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Comments

MestnyiGeroi
New York City

Why bother to throw in a few token non-English language novels? — 2 years ago

This list is so utterly skewed toward English-language novels—why not just get rid of the token few and call it that: the Best English-Language Novels? Otherwise, the list becomes a laughable representation of the best novels of world literature.


Untitled — 3 years ago

The list is in chronological order as published in The Observer (author Robert McCrum 12 October 2003).

For the list with short comments on each book:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1061037,00.html