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

Published 12 October 2003

(found at: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1061037,00.html)

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1. Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics)
by Miguel De Cervantes
  
2. The Pilgrim's Progress (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by John Bunyan
  
3. Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
4.
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 Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift
  
5. Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Laurence Sterne
  
7. Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  
8. Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
9. Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin English Library El 45)
by Thomas Love Peacock
  
10. The Black Sheep (Penguin Classics)
by Honoré de Balzac
  
11. The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)
by Stendhal
  
12. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
13. Sybil, or the Two Nations
by Benjamin Disraeli
  
14. David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
15. Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Emily Bronte
  
16. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
17. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
18. The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
19. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
20. The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
21. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
  
22. Little Women (Penguin Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
23. The Way We Live Now (Penguin Classics)
by Anthony Trollope
  
24. Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
25. Daniel Deronda (Modern Library Classics)
by George Eliot
  
26. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
27. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
28. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
29. Three Men in a Boat (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Jerome K. Jerome
  
30. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings (Enriched Classics)
by Oscar Wilde
  
31. The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Classics)
by George Grossmith
  
32. Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
33. The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
by Erskine Childers
  
34. Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
  
35. The Wind in the Willows (Unabridged Classics)
by Kenneth Grahame
  
36. In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
  
37. The Good Soldier (Norton Critical Editions)
by Ford Madox Ford
  
38. The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics)
by John Buchan
  
39. Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
40. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
  
41. The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
42. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
43. Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway
  
44. Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
45. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
  
46. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
47. Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh
  
48. The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
  
49.
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 The Pursuit Of Love
by Nancy Mitford
  
50. The Plague
by Albert Camus
  
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