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
  2. 2.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Signet Classics)
    by John Bunyan
  3. 3.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  4. 4.
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    Gulliver’s Travels
    by Jonathan Swift
  5. 5.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  8. 8.
    Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  9. 9.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  10. 10.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  11. 11.
    Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin English Library El 45)
    by Thomas Love Peacock
  12. 12.
    The Black Sheep (Penguin Classics)
    by Honoré de Balzac
  13. 13.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)
    by Stendhal
  14. 14.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  15. 15.
    Sybil, or the Two Nations
    by Benjamin Disraeli
  16. 16.
    David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  17. 17.
    Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Emily Bronte
  18. 18.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  19. 19.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  20. 20.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  21. 21.
    Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  22. 22.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  23. 23.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  24. 24.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Sterling Classics)
    by Lewis Carroll
  25. 25.
    Little Women (Penguin Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  26. 26.
    The Way We Live Now (Penguin Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope
  27. 27.
    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  28. 28.
    Daniel Deronda (Modern Library Classics)
    by George Eliot
  29. 29.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  30. 30.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  31. 31.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  32. 32.
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  33. 33.
  35. 35.
    Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Classics)
    by George Grossmith
  36. 36.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  37. 37.
    The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
    by Erskine Childers
  38. 38.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London
  39. 39.
    Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad
  40. 40.
    The Wind in the Willows (Sterling Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame
  41. 41.
    Finding Time Again (In Search of Lost Time 6) (v. 6)
    by Marcel Proust
  42. 42.
    The Rainbow: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  43. 43.
    The Good Soldier (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Ford Madox Ford
  44. 44.
    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics)
    by John Buchan
  45. 45.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  46. 46.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  47. 47.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster
  48. 48.
    The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  49. 49.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka
  50. 50.
    Men Without Women
    by Ernest Hemingway

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Comments

MestnyiGeroi

Why bother to throw in a few token non-English language novels? — 5 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.

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franzianne

Untitled — 7 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

May 28, 05:54AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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