The Guardian's 1000 Books Everyone Must Read: 298-, Family & Self

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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 family & self selections.

I have already done the comedy & crime selections; the rest are to follow. Please do not add or remove anything.

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  1. 1.
    The Face of Another
    by Kobo Abe
  2. 2.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  3. 3.
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson
  4. 4.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood
  5. 5.
    Epileptic
    by David B.
  6. 6.
    Room Temperature
    by Nicholson Baker
  7. 7.
    Eugï¿1/2nie Grandet (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Honorï¿1/2 de Balzac
  8. 8.
    Le Pere Goriot (Petits Classiques Larousse Texte Integral)
    by Honore de Balzac
  9. 9.
    The Crow Road
    by Iain Banks
  10. 10.
    The L-shaped room
    by Lynne Reid Banks
  11. 11.
    Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
    by Alison Bechdel
  12. 12.
    ?
    Malone Dies
    by Samuel Beckett
  13. 13.
    ?
    A Legacy
    by Sybille Bedford
  14. 14.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  16. 16.
    The Old Wives' Tale
    by Arnold Bennett
  17. 17.
    G
    by John Berger
  18. 18.
    Extinction
    by Thomas Bernhard
  19. 19.
    Two Serious Ladies (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
    by Jane Bowles
  20. 20.
    Any Human Heart
    by William Boyd
  21. 21.
    Death of Virgil
    by Hermann Broch
  22. 22.
    Evelina
    by Fanny Burney
  23. 23.
    The Way of All Flesh (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Samuel Butler
  24. 24.
    The Sound of My Voice (Five Star Paperback)
    by Ron Butlin
  25. 25.
    ?
    The Outsider/Albert Camus

  26. 26.
    Wise Children: A Novel
    by Angela Carter
  27. 27.
    The Professor's House
    by Willa Cather
  28. 28.
    The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
    by John Cheever
  29. 29.
  30. 30.
    The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
    by Jean Cocteau
  31. 31.
    ?
    Colette: The Vagabond

  32. 32.
    Manservant and Maidservant (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Ivy Compton-Burnett
  33. 33.
    Being Dead: A Novel
    by Jim Crace
  34. 34.
    Quarantine: A Novel
    by Jim Crace
  35. 35.
    The Mandarins (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Simone de Beauvoir
  36. 36.
    Roxana
    by Daniel Defoe
  37. 37.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  38. 38.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  39. 39.
    ?
    My New York Diary
    by Julie Doucet
  40. 40.
    The Millstone
    by Margaret Drabble
  41. 41.
    My Family and Other Animals
    by Gerald Durrell
  42. 42.
    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo
  43. 43.
    The Gathering: A Novel
    by Anne Enright
  44. 44.
    Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  45. 45.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner
  46. 46.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  47. 47.
    The Sportswriter
    by Richard Ford
  48. 48.
    Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by E.M. Forster
  49. 49.
    Spies
    by Michael Frayn
  50. 50.
    Hideous Kinky: A Novel
    by Esther Freud

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