The Guardian's 1000 Books Everyone Must Read: 1-149, Comedy

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This list is from 2009 but I can’t resist reproducing it here. Selected by the Guardian’s review team and a panel of experts, the list includes only novels and is divided into seven sections: comedy, crime, family and self, love, science fiction & fantasy, state of the nation, and war & travel. These are the comedy selections.

The other sections of the list will follow. Please do not add or remove anything.

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  1. 1.
    Lucky Jim
    by Kingsley Amis
  2. 2.
    Money [Paperback]
    by Martin Amis (Author)
  3. 3.
    The Information
    by Martin Amis
  4. 4.
    The Bottle Factory Outing
    by Beryl Bainbridge
  5. 5.
    According to Queeney

  6. 6.
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    Flaubert's Parrot
    by Julian Barnes
  7. 7.
    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes
  8. 8.
    Augustus Carp, Esq., Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
    by Sir Henry Bashford
  9. 9.
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    Good Man - Henry Howarth Bashford

  10. 10.
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    Molloy
    by Samuel Beckett
  11. 11.
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    Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story
    by Max Beerbohm
  12. 12.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  13. 13.
    The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
    by Alan Bennett
  14. 14.
    E.F. Benson's Queen Lucia
    by E. F. Benson
  15. 15.
    The Ascent of Rum Doodle
    by W.E. Bowman
  16. 16.
    A Good Man in Africa: A Novel
    by William Boyd
  17. 17.
    The History Man
    by Malcolm Bradbury
  18. 18.
    No Bed for Bacon: Or Shakespeare Sows an Oat
    by Caryl Brahms
  19. 19.
    Illywhacker
    by Peter Carey
  20. 20.
    ?
    A Season in Sinji
    by J.L. Carr
  21. 21.
    ?
    THE HARPOLE REPORT
    by J. L. CARR
  22. 22.
    The Hearing Trumpet
    by Leonora Carrington
  23. 23.
    Mister Johnson
    by Joyce Cary
  24. 24.
    The Horse's Mouth
    by Joyce Cary
  25. 25.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes
  26. 26.
    Case of the Gilded Fly
    by Edmund Crispin
  27. 27.
    Just William
    by Richmal Crompton
  29. 29.
    Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
    by Peter De Vries
  30. 30.
    The Pickwick Papers (Penguin English Library)
    by Charles Dickens
  31. 31.
    Martin Chuzzlewit (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  32. 32.
    Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Denis Diderot
  33. 33.
    A Fairy Tale of New York
    by J. P. Donleavy
  34. 34.
    The Commitments
    by Roddy Doyle
  35. 35.
    Ennui Memoirs of the Earl of Glenthorn
    by Maria Edgeworth
  36. 36.
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    Cheese
    by Willem Elsschot
  37. 37.
    Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
    by Helen Fielding
  38. 38.
    Joseph Andrews (Volume 1)
    by Henry Fielding
  39. 39.
    Tom Jones (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Henry Fielding
  40. 40.
    Caprice (The New Directions Bibelots)
    by Ronald Firbank
  41. 41.
    Bouvard and Pécuchet (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  42. 42.
    Towards the End of the Morning
    by Michael Frayn
  43. 43.
    The Polyglots
    by William Gerhardie
  44. 44.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Stella Gibbons
  45. 45.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol
  46. 46.
    Oblomov (Everyman's Library, 878)
    by Ivan Goncharov
  47. 47.
    The Wind in the Willows (Puffin Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame
  48. 48.
    Brewster's Millions George Barr McCutcheon
    by George Barr McCuthcheon
  49. 49.
    Squire Haggard's Journal (Prion Humour Classics)
    by Michael Frederick Green
  50. 50.
    Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

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