The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Should Read
The Guardian ran an interesting series last week entitled 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. Unfortunately, they not only split it up into some rather strange sections (Love, Crime etc.), and then further broke each of those into several parts on the web, but also hid well over a hundred of them in less obvious minor sections. So as a public service, I have integrated and sorted the list, and indeed counted the frequency for each author on it (see here). I can confirm that there are exactly 1,000 in the list.
For what it's worth, it misses off a number of my favourite novels, including:
- Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces (1996)
- Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
- Angela Carter: While they did include three (The Passion of New Eve, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children), I would have included all of her novels—Shadow Dance (1966), The Magic Toyshop (1967), Several Perceptions (1968), Heroes and Villains (1969), Love (1971) and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (2006)
[UPDATE:As Mark points out in the comments, The Guardian has now published its own "definitive list" here, which differs slightly from this one. I explain in my reply comment how I assembled this list. I guess you pays your money and takes your choice . . .]
The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
Author | Title | Year |
---|---|---|
Kobo Abe | The Face of Another | 1964 |
Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart | 1958 |
Chinua Achebe | Anthills of the Savannah | 1987 |
Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 1979 |
Junghyo Ahn | Silver Stallion | 1990 |
Latifa al-Zayyat | al-Bab al-Maftouh | 1960 |
Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | 1868 |
Richard Aldington | Death of a Hero | 1929 |
Brian W Aldiss | Non-Stop | 1958 |
Nelson Algren | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1949 |
Eric Ambler | Epitaph for a Spy | 1938 |
Eric Ambler | The Mask of Dimitrios | 1939 |
Eric Ambler | Journey into Fear | 1940 |
Kingsley Amis | Lucky Jim | 1954 |
Martin Amis | Money | 1984 |
Martin Amis | London Fields | 1989 |
Martin Amis | The Information | 1995 |
Mulk Raj Anand | Untouchable | 1935 |
Isaac Asimov | Foundation | 1951 |
Kate Atkinson | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | 1995 |
Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | 1985 |
Margaret Atwood | Cat's Eye | 1988 |
Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | 2000 |
Paul Auster | The New York Trilogy | 1985-86 |
Paul Auster | In the Country of Last Things | 1987 |
Jane Austin | Sense and Sensibility | 1811 |
Jane Austin | Pride and Prejudice | 1813 |
Jane Austin | Mansfield Park | 1814 |
Jane Austin | Emma | 1815 |
Jane Austin | Northanger Abbey | 1817 |
Jane Austin | Persuasion | 1817 |
Beryl Bainbridge | The Bottle Factory Outing | 1974 |
Beryl Bainbridge | Master Georgie | 1998 |
Beryl Bainbridge | According to Queeney | 2001 |
Nicholson Baker | Room Temperature | 1990 |
Nigel Balchin | Darkness Falls from the Air | 1942 |
James Baldwin | Go Tell It On the Mountain | 1953 |
James Baldwin | Giovanni's Room | 1957 |
JG Ballard | The Drowned World | 1962 |
JG Ballard | Crash | 1973 |
JG Ballard | Empire of the Sun | 1984 |
JG Ballard | Millennium People | 2003 |
Honoré de Balzac | La Comédie Humaine | 1830-1848 |
Honoré de Balzac | Eugénie Grandet | 1833 |
Honoré de Balzac | Le Père Goriot | 1835 |
Miklos Banffy | They Were Counted | 1934 |
Iain M Banks | Consider Phlebas | 1987 |
Iain Banks | The Wasp Factory | 1984 |
Iain Banks | The Crow Road | 1992 |
Lynne Reid Banks | The L-Shaped Room | 1960 |
Clive Barker | Weaveworld | 1987 |
Nicola Barker | Darkmans | 2007 |
Pat Barker | Regeneration | 1991 |
Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | 1936 |
Julian Barnes | Flaubert's Parrot | 1984 |
Julian Barnes | A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters | 1989 |
Sebastian Barry | A Long Long Way | 2005 |
Stan Barstow | A Kind of Loving | 1960 |
Henry Howarth Bashford | Augustus Carp, Esq By Himself — Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man | 1924 |
Giorgio Bassani | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1962 |
HE Bates | Fair Stood the Wind for France | 1944 |
HE Bates | Love for Lydia | 1952 |
Nina Bawden | Carrie's War | 1973 |
Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships | 1995 |
Greg Bear | Darwin's Radio | 1999 |
Alison Bechdel | Fun Home | 2006 |
Samuel Beckett | Malone Dies | 1951 |
Samuel Beckett | Molloy | 1951 |
William Beckford | Vathek | 1786 |
Sybille Bedford | A Legacy | 1956 |
Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson | 1911 |
Aphra Behn | Oroonoko or The Royal Slave | 1688 |
Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March | 1953 |
Saul Bellow | Herzog | 1964 |
Saul Bellow | Humboldt's Gift | 1975 |
Saul Bellow | More Die of Heartbreak | 1987 |
Alan Bennett | The Uncommon Reader | 2007 |
Arnold Bennett | The Old Wives' Tale | 1908 |
Arnold Bennett | Clayhanger | 1910 |
EF Benson | Queen Lucia | 1920 |
EC Bentley | Trent's Last Case | 1913 |
John Berger | G. | 1972 |
Anthony Berkeley | The Poisoned Chocolates Case | 1929 |
Thomas Bernhard | Extinction | 1986 |
Alfred Bester | The Stars My Destination | 1956 |
RD Blackmore | Lorna Doone | 1869 |
Nicholas Blake | The Beast Must Die | 1938 |
Roberto Bolaño | The Savage Detectives | 1998 |
Elizabeth Bowen | The Last September | 1929 |
Elizabeth Bowen | The Death of the Heart | 1938 |
Elizabeth Bowen | The Heat of the Day | 1948 |
Jane Bowles | Two Serious Ladies | 1943 |
Paul Bowles | The Sheltering Sky | 1949 |
WE Bowman | The Ascent of Rum Doodle | 1956 |
William Boyd | A Good Man in Africa | 1981 |
William Boyd | An Ice-Cream War | 1982 |
William Boyd | Any Human Heart | 2002 |
Malcolm Bradbury | The History Man | 1975 |
Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | 1953 |
Mary E Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | 1862 |
Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon | No Bed for Bacon | 1941 |
John Braine | Room at the Top | 1957 |
Patrick O'Brian | Master and Commander | 1969 |
Flann O'Brien | At Swim-Two-Birds | 1939 |
Flann O'Brien | The Third Policeman | 1967 |
Tim O'Brien | The Things they Carried | 1990 |
Raymond Briggs | When the Wind Blows | 1982 |
André Brink | A Dry White Season | 1979 |
Poppy Z Brite | Lost Souls | 1992 |
Hermann Broch | The Death of Virgil | 1945 |
Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | 1847 |
Charlotte Brontë | Shirley | 1849 |
Charlotte Brontë | Villette | 1853 |
Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | 1847 |
Anita Brookner | Look at Me | 1983 |
Charles Brockden Brown | Wieland | 1798 |
Rita Mae Brown | Rubyfruit Jungle | 1973 |
John Buchan | The Thirty-Nine Steps | 1915 |
John Buchan | Greenmantle | 1916 |
Algis Budrys | Rogue Moon | 1960 |
Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | 1966 |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The Coming Race | 1871 |
Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange | 1960 |
Anthony Burgess | Earthly Powers | 1980 |
Anthony Burgess | The End of the World News | 1982 |
James Lee Burke | The Neon Rain | 1987 |
James Lee Burke | The Tin Roof Blowdown | 2007 |
Ivy Compton-Burnett | Manservant and Maidservant | 1947 |
WR Burnett | The Asphalt Jungle | 1949 |
Fanny Burney | Evelina | 1778 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs | A Princess of Mars | 1912 |
William Burroughs | Naked Lunch | 1959 |
Octavia Butler | Kindred | 1979 |
Samuel Butler | Erewhon | 1872 |
Samuel Butler | The Way of All Flesh | 1903 |
Ron Butlin | The Sound of My Voice | 1987 |
AS Byatt | The Virgin in the Garden | 1978 |
AS Byatt | Possession | 1990 |
David B | Epileptic | 1996-2003 |
Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Journey to the End of the Night | 1932 |
James M Cain | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1934 |
James M Cain | Double Indemnity | 1943 |
Erskine Caldwell | Tobacco Road | 1932 |
Italo Calvino | The Baron in the Trees | 1957 |
Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities | 1974 |
Ramsey Campbell | The Influence | 1988 |
Albert Camus | The Outsider | 1942 |
Albert Camus | The Plague | 1947 |
Elias Canetti | Auto-da-Fé | 1935 |
Truman Capote | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1958 |
Peter Carey | Illywhacker | 1985 |
Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | 1988 |
Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | 2000 |
Alejo Carpentier | The Kingdom of This World | 1949 |
John le Carré | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | 1963 |
John le Carré | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | 1974 |
John le Carré | The Constant Gardener | 2001 |
Leonora Carrington | The Hearing Trumpet | 1976 |
Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 1865 |
Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There | 1871 |
JL Carr | A Season in Sinji | 1967 |
JL Carr | The Harpole Report | 1972 |
JL Carr | A Month in the Country | 1980 |
John Dickson Carr | The Hollow Man | 1935 |
Angela Carter | The Passion of New Eve | 1977 |
Angela Carter | Nights at the Circus | 1984 |
Angela Carter | Wise Children | 1991 |
Joyce Cary | Mister Johnson | 1939 |
Joyce Cary | The Horse's Mouth | 1944 |
Willa Cather | My Antonia | 1918 |
Willa Cather | One Of Ours | 1922 |
Willa Cather | A Lost Lady | 1923 |
Willa Cather | The Professor's House | 1925 |
Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | 1605 |
Michael Chabon | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | 2000 |
Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep | 1939 |
Raymond Chandler | The Long Goodbye | 1953 |
James Hadley Chase | No Orchids for Miss Blandish | 1939 |
John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle | 1957 |
GK Chesterton | The Man Who Was Thursday | 1908 |
Erskine Childers | The Riddle of the Sands | 1903 |
Kate Chopin | The Awakening | 1899 |
Agatha Christie | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | 1920 |
Agatha Christie | The Secret Adversary | 1922 |
Agatha Christie | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | 1926 |
Agatha Christie | The Murder at the Vicarage | 1930 |
Agatha Christie | And Then There Were None | 1939 |
Arthur C Clarke | Childhood's End | 1953 |
Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell | 2004 |
Jean Cocteau | Les Enfants Terribles | 1929 |
JM Coetzee | Waiting for the Barbarians | 1980 |
JM Coetzee | Disgrace | 1999 |
Jonathan Coe | What a Carve Up! | 1994 |
Sidone-Gabrille Colette | Chéri | 1920 |
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | Claudine à l'école | 1900 |
Colette | The Vagabond | 1910 |
Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | 1860 |
Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | 1868 |
Richard Condon | The Manchurian Candidate | 1959 |
Michael G Coney | Hello Summer, Goodbye | 1975 |
Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim | 1900 |
Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | 1902 |
Joseph Conrad | Nostromo | 1904 |
Joseph Conrad | The Secret Agent | 1907 |
Joseph Conrad | Under Western Eyes | 1911 |
Joseph Conrad | Victory: An Island Tale | 1915 |
Bernard Cornwell | Sharpe's Eagle | 1981 |
Patricia Cornwell | Postmortem | 1990 |
Douglas Coupland | Microserfs | 1995 |
Douglas Coupland | Girlfriend in a Coma | 1998 |
Francis Coventry | The History of Pompey the Little | 1751 |
Jim Crace | Quarantine | 1997 |
Jim Crace | Being Dead | 1999 |
Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage | 1895 |
Michael Crichton | The Andromeda Strain | 1969 |
Michael Crichton | Jurassic Park | 1990 |
Edmund Crispin | The Case of the Gilded Fly | 1944 |
Richmal Crompton | Just William | 1922 |
Amanda Cross | Poetic Justice | 1970 |
Alfred Döblin | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1929 |
Friedrich Dürrenmatt | The Pledge | 1958 |
Mark Danielewski | House of Leaves | 2000 |
Marie Darrieussecq | Pig Tales | 1996 |
Simone de Beauvoir | The Mandarins | 1954 |
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz | The Crime of Father Amaro | 1875 |
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | 1782 |
Madame de Lafayette | The Princess of Clèves | 1678 |
Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | 1885 |
Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry | The Little Prince | 1943 |
Peter De Vries | Slouching towards Kalamazoo | 1983 |
Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | 1719 |
Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders | 1722 |
Daniel Defoe | Roxana | 1724 |
Len Deighton | The Ipcress File | 1962 |
Len Deighton | Bomber | 1970 |
EM Delafield | The Provincial Lady | 1930 |
Samuel R Delaney | The Einstein Intersection | 1967 |
Don DeLillo | White Noise | 1985 |
Don DeLillo | Underwold | 1997 |
Colin Dexter | Last Seen Wearing | 1976 |
Colin Dexter | The Remorseful Day | 1999 |
Giuseppe di Lampedusa | The Leopard | 1958 |
Michael Dibdin | A Rich Full Death | 1986 |
Michael Dibdin | Ratking | 1988 |
Michael Dibdin | Dirty Tricks | 1991 |
Michael Dibdin | Dead Lagoon | 1994 |
Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | 1837 |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | 1838 |
Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | 1844 |
Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | 1848 |
Charles Dickens | Bleak House | 1852-53 |
Charles Dickens | Hard Times | 1854 |
Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | 1855-57 |
Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | 1859 |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | 1861 |
James Dickey | Deliverance | 1970 |
Philip K Dick | The Man in the High Castle | 1962 |
Philip K Dick | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 1968 |
Denis Diderot | Jacques the Fatalist and His Master | 1796 |
Joan Didion | Play It As It Lays | 1970 |
Thomas M Disch | Camp Concentration | 1968 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil or The Two Nations | 1845 |
EL Doctorow | The Book of Daniel | 1971 |
JP Donleavy | A Fairy Tale of New York | 1973 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | Notes from Underground | 1864 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | 1868 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | 1866 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | 1880 |
Julie Doucet | My New York Diary | 1999 |
Norman Douglas | South Wind | 1917 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet | 1887 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sign of Four | 1890 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1902 |
Roddy Doyle | The Commitments | 1987 |
Margaret Drabble | The Millstone | 1965 |
Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie | 1900 |
Theodore Dreiser | An American Tragedy | 1925 |
Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca | 1938 |
Daphne du Maurier | The Parasites | 1949 |
Daphne du Maurier | My Cousin Rachel | 1951 |
Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | 1844-45 |
Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers | 1844 |
Marguerite Duras | The Lover | 1984 |
Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals | 1956 |
Lawrence Durrell | Justine | 1957 |
William Eastlake | The Bamboo Bed | 1969 |
Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | 1980 |
Umberto Eco | Foucault's Pendulum | 1988 |
Maria Edgeworth | Castle Rackrent | 1800 |
Maria Edgeworth | Ennui | 1809 |
Enayat el-Zayyat | Al-Hubb w'al-Samt | 1967 |
George Eliot | Adam Bede | 1859 |
George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | 1860 |
George Eliot | Silas Marner | 1861 |
George Eliot | Middlemarch | 1872 |
George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | 1876 |
Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | 1953 |
Bret Easton Ellis | American Psycho | 1991 |
RJ Ellory | A Quiet Belief in Angels | 2007 |
James Ellroy | The Big Nowhere | 1988 |
James Ellroy | LA Confidential | 1990 |
Willem Elsschot | Cheese | 1933 |
Shusaku Endo | Silence | 1966 |
Anne Enright | The Gathering | 2007 |
Jeffrey Eugenides | The Virgin Suicides | 1993 |
Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex | 2002 |
Michel Faber | Under the Skin | 2000 |
JG Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur | 1973 |
William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury | 1929 |
William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | 1930 |
William Faulkner | Sanctuary | 1931 |
Sebastian Faulks | Birdsong | 1993 |
Helen Fielding | Bridget Jones's Diary | 1996 |
Henry Fielding | Joseph Andrews | 1742 |
Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | 1749 |
Ronald Firbank | Caprice | 1917 |
F Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | 1925 |
F Scott Fitzgerald | Tender is the Night | 1934 |
Penelope Fitzgerald | The Blue Flower | 1995 |
Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | 1856 |
Gustave Flaubert | Sentimental Education | 1869 |
Gustave Flaubert | Bouvard and Pécuchet | 1881 |
Ian Fleming | Casino Royale | 1953 |
Ian Fleming | Goldfinger | 1959 |
Ian Fleming | You Only Live Twice | 1964 |
Jonathan Safran Foer | Everything Is Illuminated | 2002 |
Theodor Fontane | Effi Briest | 1896 |
Ford Madox Ford | The Good Soldier | 1915 |
Ford Madox Ford | Parade's End | 1924-28 |
Richard Ford | The Sportswriter | 1986 |
Richard Ford | Independence Day | 1996 |
CS Forester | The African Queen | 1935 |
CS Forester | The Ship | 1943 |
EM Forster | A Room With a View | 1908 |
EM Forster | Howards End | 1910 |
EM Forster | A Passage to India | 1924 |
Frederick Forsyth | The Day of the Jackal | 1971 |
Henri Alain-Fournier | Le Grand Meaulnes | 1913 |
John Fowles | The Magus | 1966 |
John Fowles | The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1969 |
Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections | 2001 |
George MacDonald Fraser | Flashman | 1969 |
Michael Frayn | Towards the End of Morning | 1967 |
Michael Frayn | Spies | 2002 |
Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain | 1997 |
Esther Freud | Hideous Kinky | 1992 |
William Gaddis | The Recognitions | 1955 |
Neil Gaiman | American Gods | 2001 |
Paul Gallico | The Snow Goose | 1941 |
John Galsworthy | The Man of Property | 1906 |
Alex Garland | The Beach | 1996 |
Alan Garner | Red Shift | 1973 |
Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | 1848 |
Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | 1853 |
Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | 1853 |
Elizabeth Gaskell | North and South | 1855 |
William Gerhardie | The Polyglots | 1925 |
Stella Gibbons | Cold Comfort Farm | 1932 |
Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Sunset Song | 1932 |
William Gibson | Neuromancer | 1984 |
André Gide | The Immoralist | 1902 |
André Gide | Strait Is the Gate | 1909 |
André Gide | The Vatican Cellars | 1914 |
André Gide | The Counterfeiters | 1925 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Herland | 1915 |
George Gissing | New Grub Street | 1891 |
George Gissing | The Odd Women | 1893 |
Johann Wolfgang Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | 1774 |
Nikolai Gogol | Dead Souls | 1842 |
William Golding | Lord of the Flies | 1954 |
William Golding | To the Ends of the Earth trilogy | 1980-89 |
Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | 1766 |
Ivan Goncharov | Oblomov | 1859 |
Nadine Gordimer | July's People | 1981 |
Maxim Gorky | Mother | 1906 |
René Goscinny | Asterix the Gaul | 1959 |
Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | 1908 |
Günter Grass | The Tin Drum | 1959 |
Robert Graves | Count Belisarius | 1938 |
Alasdair Gray | Lanark | 1981 |
Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon) | Brewster's Millions | 1902 |
Graham Greene | A Gun For Sale | 1936 |
Graham Greene | Brighton Rock | 1938 |
Graham Greene | The Power and the Glory | 1940 |
Graham Greene | The Ministry of Fear | 1943 |
Graham Greene | The Third Man | 1950 |
Graham Greene | The End of the Affair | 1951 |
Graham Greene | Our Man in Havana | 1958 |
Graham Greene | Travels With My Aunt | 1969 |
Walter Greenwood | Love on the Dole | 1933 |
Henry Green | Living | 1929 |
Michael Green | Squire Haggard's Journal | 1975 |
John Grisham | A Time to Kill | 1989 |
John Grisham | The King of Torts | 2003 |
Vasily Grossman | Life and Fate | 1960 |
George Grossmith | Diary of a Nobody | 1892 |
Giovanni Guareschi | The Little World of Don Camillo | 1948 |
Ursula K Le Guin | The Earthsea series | 1968-1990 |
Ursula K Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness | 1969 |
Peter Høeg | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow | 1992 |
Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | 2003 |
Andrew O'Hagan | Personality | 2003 |
CT Rawi Hage | De Niro's Game | 2006 |
H Rider Haggard | King Solomon's Mines | 1885 |
H Rider Haggard | She | 1887 |
Joe Haldeman | The Forever War | 1974 |
Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | 1928 |
Patrick Hamilton | Hangover Square | 1941 |
Patrick Hamilton | The Slaves of Solitude | 1947 |
Dashiell Hammett | Red Harvest | 1929 |
Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon | 1930 |
Dashiell Hammett | The Glass Key | 1931 |
Dashiell Hammett | The Thin Man | 1934 |
Knut Hamsun | Hunger | 1890 |
Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | 1874 |
Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | 1886 |
Thomas Hardy | The Woodlanders | 1887 |
Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | 1891 |
Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | 1895 |
M John Harrison | Light | 2002 |
John Harris | Covenant with Death | 1961 |
Robert Harris | Fatherland | 1992 |
Robert Harris | Enigma | 1995 |
Thomas Harris | Black Sunday | 1975 |
Thomas Harris | Red Dragon | 1981 |
LP Hartley | The Shrimp and the Anemone | 1944 |
LP Hartley | The Go-Between | 1953 |
Jaroslav Hasek | The Good Soldier Svejk | 1923 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | 1850 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of the Seven Gables | 1851 |
Shirley Hazzard | The Transit of Venus | 1980 |
Robert A Heinlein | Stranger in a Strange Land | 1961 |
Joseph Heller | Catch-22 | 1961 |
Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | 1929 |
Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1940 |
Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | 1952 |
Frank Herbert | Dune | 1965 |
Hergé | The Crab with the Golden Claws | 1941 |
Hergé | Tintin in Tibet | 1960 |
Hergé | The Castafiore Emerald | 1963 |
Hermann Hesse | Steppenwolf | 1927 |
Hermann Hesse | Narziss and Goldmund | 1930 |
Hermann Hesse | The Glass Bead Game | 1943 |
Georgette Heyer | Regency Buck | 1935 |
Georgette Heyer | The Infamous Army | 1937 |
Carl Hiaasen | Tourist Season | 1986 |
George V Higgins | The Friends of Eddie Coyle | 1972 |
Patricia Highsmith | Strangers on a Train | 1950 |
Patricia Highsmith | The Talented Mr Ripley | 1955 |
Reginald Hill | Bones and Silence | 1990 |
Chester Himes | A Rage in Harlem | 1957 |
Barry Hines | A Kestrel for a Knave | 1968 |
Russell Hoban | Riddley Walker | 1980 |
Eric Hodgins | Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House | 1946 |
James Hogg | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | 1824 |
Alan Hollinghurst | The Swimming-Pool Library | 1988 |
Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | 2004 |
Winifred Holtby | South Riding | 1936 |
Anthony Hope | The Prisoner of Zenda | 1894 |
Nick Hornby | High Fidelity | 1995 |
Paul Hornschemeier | The Three Paradoxes | 2006 |
Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner | 2003 |
Michel Houellebecq | Atomised | 1998 |
Geoffrey Household | Rogue Male | 1939 |
Bohumil Hrabal | I Served the King of England | 1983 |
WH Hudson | Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest | 1904 |
Richard Hughes | A High Wind in Jamaica | 1929 |
Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's School Days | 1857 |
Victor Hugo | Les Misérables | 1862 |
Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God | 1937 |
Aldous Huxley | Crome Yellow | 1921 |
Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | 1932 |
James Hynes | The Lecturer's Tale — A Novel | 2001 |
Frances Iles | Malice Aforethought | 1931 |
Arnaldur Indridason | Silence of the Grave | 2001 |
Michael Innes | Death at the President's Lodging | 1936 |
John Irving | A Prayer for Owen Meany | 1989 |
Christopher Isherwood | Mr Norris Changes Trains | 1935 |
Christopher Isherwood | Goodbye to Berlin | 1939 |
Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | 1989 |
Kazuo Ishiguro | The Unconsoled | 1995 |
Shirley Jackson | The Haunting of Hill House | 1959 |
Howard Jacobson | The Mighty Walzer | 1999 |
Henry James | Washington Square | 1880 |
Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | 1881 |
Henry James | The Turn of the Screw | 1898 |
Henry James | The Wings of the Dove | 1902 |
Henry James | The Ambassadors | 1903 |
PD James | Cover Her Face | 1962 |
PD James | A Taste for Death | 1986 |
PD James | The Children of Men | 1992 |
Randall Jarrell | Pictures from an Institution | 1954 |
Richard Jefferies | After London; Or, Wild England | 1885 |
Elfriede Jelinek | The Piano Teacher | 1983 |
Elizabeth Jenkins | The Tortoise and the Hare | 1954 |
Jerome K Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | 1899 |
BS Johnson | The Unfortunates | 1969 |
Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | 1759 |
Gwyneth Jones | Bold as Love | 2001 |
James Jones | From Here to Eternity | 1951 |
James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 1916 |
James Joyce | Ulysses | 1922 |
James Joyce | Finnegans Wake | 1939 |
Layla al-Juhani | Jahiliyya | 2006 |
Ismail Kadare | Chronicle in Stone | 1971 |
Franz Kafka | The Trial | 1925 |
Franz Kafka | The Castle | 1926 |
MacKinlay Kantor | Andersonville | 1955 |
Yasunari Kawabata | Beauty and Sadness | 1964 |
MM Kaye | The Far Pavilions | 1978 |
Nikos Kazantzakis | Zorba the Greek | 1946 |
Molly Keane | Good Behaviour | 1981 |
Garrison Keillor | Lake Wobegon Days | 1985 |
James Kelman | How Late It Was, How Late | 1994 |
Yashar Kemal | Memed, My Hawk | 1955 |
Harry Kemelman | Friday the Rabbi Slept Late | 1964 |
Thomas Keneally | Confederates | 1979 |
Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | 1982 |
AL Kennedy | Day | 2007 |
Pamela Kent | Moon over Africa | 1955 |
Jack Kerouac | On the Road | 1957 |
Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1962 |
Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | 1966 |
Colette Khoury | Ayyam Ma'ah | 1959 |
Stephen King | The Shining | 1977 |
Stephen King | Misery | 1987 |
Stephen King | Dolores Claiborne | 1992 |
Rudyard Kipling | Kim | 1901 |
Arthur Koestler | Darkness at Noon | 1940 |
Jerzy Kosinski | The Painted Bird | 1965 |
Milan Kundera | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | 1978 |
Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1982 |
Hanif Kureishi | The Buddha of Suburbia | 1990 |
Andrey Kurkov | Death and the Penguin | 1996 |
John Lanchester | The Debt to Pleasure | 1996 |
Philip Larkin | A Girl in Winter | 1947 |
Nella Larsen | Passing | 1929 |
Marghanita Laski | The Victorian Chaise-longue | 1953 |
DH Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | 1913 |
DH Lawrence | The Rainbow | 1915 |
DH Lawrence | Women in Love | 1920 |
DH Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | 1960 |
Harper Lee | To Kill A Mockingbird | 1960 |
Laurie Lee | Cider with Rosie | 1959 |
Rosamond Lehmann | Invitation to the Waltz | 1932 |
Rosamond Lehmann | The Weather in the Streets | 1936 |
Rosamond Lehmann | The Echoing Grove | 1953 |
Stanislaw Lem | Solaris | 1961 |
Elmore Leonard | 52 Pick-Up | 1974 |
Elmore Leonard | Get Shorty | 1990 |
Alain-René Lesage | L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | 1715-1735 |
Doris Lessing | The Grass is Singing | 1950 |
Doris Lessing | The Golden Notebook | 1962 |
Doris Lessing | Memoirs of a Survivor | 1974 |
Jonathan Lethem | Motherless Brooklyn | 1999 |
Primo Levi | If Not Now, When? | 1982 |
CS Lewis | The Chronicles of Narnia | 1950-56 |
MG Lewis | The Monk | 1796 |
Sinclair Lewis | Main Street | 1920 |
Sinclair Lewis | Elmer Gantry | 1927 |
David Lindsay | A Voyage to Arcturus | 1920 |
Richard Llewellyn | How Green Was My Valley | 1939 |
David Lodge | Changing Places | 1975 |
David Lodge | Nice Work | 1988 |
Jack London | The Call of the Wild | 1903 |
Jack London | Martin Eden | 1909 |
Anita Loos | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1925 |
Audre Lorde | Zami | 1982 |
Malcolm Lowry | Under the Volcano | 1947 |
Robert Ludlum | The Bourne Identity | 1980 |
Alison Lurie | Foreign Aff airs | 1984 |
Gabriel García Márquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 1967 |
Gabriel García Márquez | Love in the Time of Cholera | 1985 |
Amin Maalouf | Samarkand | 1989 |
Rose Macaulay | The Towers of Trebizond | 1956 |
AG Macdonnell | England, Their England | 1933 |
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis | The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas | 1871 |
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis | Dom Casmurro | 1899 |
Colin MacInnes | Absolute Beginners | 1959 |
Compton Mackenzie | Whisky Galore | 1947 |
Julian Maclaren-Ross | Of Love and Hunger | 1947 |
Alastair Maclean | The Guns of Navarone | 1957 |
Ken MacLeod | The Night Sessions | 2008 |
David Madsen | Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf | 1995 |
Naguib Mahfouz | Cairo trilogy | 1956-57 |
Naguib Mahfouz | Palace Walk | 1956 |
Norman Mailer | The Naked and the Dead | 1948 |
Bernard Malamud | The Assistant | 1957 |
David Malouf | Remembering Babylon | 1993 |
André Malraux | La Condition Humaine | 1933 |
Henning Mankell | Sidetracked | 1995 |
Olivia Manning | The Fortunes of War novels | 1960-80 |
Thomas Mann | Buddenbrooks | 1901 |
Thomas Mann | Death in Venice | 1912 |
Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain | 1924 |
Hilary Mantel | Beyond Black | 2005 |
Alessandro Manzoni | The Betrothed | 1827 |
Javier Marías | A Heart So White | 1992 |
Dacia Maraini | The Silent Duchess | 1990 |
Frederick Marryat | The Children of the New Forest | 1847 |
Michael Marshall Smith | Only Forward | 1994 |
Richard Matheson | I Am Legend | 1954 |
Charles Maturin | Melmoth the Wanderer | 1820 |
Somerset Maugham | Of Human Bondage | 1915 |
W Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale — Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard | 1930 |
Armistead Maupin | Tales of the City | 1978 |
William Maxwell | Chateau | 1961 |
William Maxwell | So Long, See You Tomorrow | 1980 |
FM Mayor | The Rector's Daughter | 1924 |
Ed McBain | Cop Hater | 1956 |
Patrick McCabe | The Butcher Boy | 1992 |
Cormac McCarthy | Blood Meridian | 1985 |
Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses | 1992 |
Cormac McCarthy | No Country for Old Men | 2005 |
Cormac McCarthy | The Road | 2006 |
Mary McCarthy | The Group | 1963 |
Carson McCullers | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | 1940 |
Carson McCullers | The Member of the Wedding | 1946 |
Johnston McCulley | The Mark of Zorro | 1919 |
Ian McEwan | The Child in Time | 1987 |
Ian McEwan | Enduring Love | 1997 |
Ian McEwan | Atonement | 2001 |
John McGahern | Amongst Women | 1990 |
Jay McInerney | Bright Lights, Big City | 1984 |
Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove | 1985 |
Herman Melville | Moby-Dick or, The Whale | 1851 |
Jed Mercurio | Ascent | 2007 |
George Meredith | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel | 1859 |
George Meredith | The Egoist | 1879 |
China Miéville | The Scar | 2002 |
James Michener | Tales of the South Pacific | 1847 |
Walter M Miller Jr | A Canticle for Leibowitz | 1960 |
Andrew Miller | Ingenious Pain | 1997 |
Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer | 1934 |
Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah | 1969 |
Spike Milligan | Puckoon | 1963 |
Magnus Mills | The Restraint of Beasts | 1998 |
Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | 1995 |
Rohinton Mistry | Family Matters | 2002 |
David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | 2004 |
Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | 1936 |
Nancy Mitford | The Pursuit of Love | 1945 |
Nancy Mitford | Love in a Cold Climate | 1949 |
Nicholas Monsarrat | The Cruel Sea | 1951 |
Michael Moorcock | Mother London | 1988 |
Brian Moore | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | 1955 |
Elsa Morante | Arturo's Island: A Novel | 1957 |
Elsa Morante | History | 1974 |
Alberto Moravia | The Time of Indifference | 1929 |
Toni Morrison | The Bluest Eye | 1970 |
Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon | 1977 |
Toni Morrison | Beloved | 1987 |
William Morris | News From Nowhere | 1890 |
John Mortimer | Charade | 1947 |
John Mortimer | Titmuss Regained | 1990 |
Walter Mosley | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1990 |
Timothy Mo | Sour Sweet | 1982 |
Alice Munro | Who Do You Think You Are? | 1978 |
Haruki Murakami | Norwegian Wood | 1987 |
Haruki Murakami | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle | 1995 |
Iris Murdoch | Under the Net | 1954 |
Iris Murdoch | The Black Prince | 1973 |
Robert Musil | The Man Without Qualities | 1930-32 |
Irène Némirovsky | Suite Française | 2004 |
Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male | 1955 |
Vladimir Nabokov | Pnin | 1957 |
Vladimir Nabokov | Pale Fire | 1962 |
Vladimir Nabokov | Ada or Ardor | 1969 |
Shiva Naipaul | Fireflies | 1970 |
VS Naipaul | A House for Mr Biswas | 1961 |
VS Naipaul | A Bend in the River | 1979 |
RK Narayan | The Painter of Signs | 1976 |
Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife | 2003 |
Bao Ninh | The Sorrow of War | 1994 |
Anaïs Nin | Delta of Venus | 1978 |
Larry Niven | Ringworld | 1970 |
Jeff Noon | Vurt | 1993 |
Cees Nooteboom | All Souls Day | 1999 |
Frank Norris | McTeague | 1899 |
Kenzaburo Oe | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness | 1969 |
Ben Okri | The Famished Road | 1991 |
Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | 1992 |
E Phillips Oppenheim | The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent | 1934 |
E Phillips Oppenhein | The Great Impersonation | 1920 |
Baroness Emmuska Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1905 |
George Orwell | Burmese Days | 1934 |
George Orwell | Animal Farm | 1945 |
George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-four | 1949 |
Chuck Palahniuk | Fight Club | 1996 |
Orhan Pamuk | My Name Is Red | 1998 |
Sara Paretsky | Toxic Shock | 1988 |
Sara Paretsky | Blacklist | 2003 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | The Ragazzi | 1955 |
John Dos Passos | Three Soldiers | 1921 |
John Dos Passos | U.S.A. | 1930-36 |
Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago | 1957 |
Alan Paton | Cry, The Beloved Country | 1948 |
Cesare Pavese | The Moon and the Bonfire | 1949 |
David Peace | Nineteen Seventy-Four | 1999 |
David Peace | Nineteen Seventy Seven | 2000 |
David Peace | GB84 | 2004 |
Thomas Love Peacock | Headlong Hall | 1816 |
Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | 1818 |
Mervyn Peake | Titus Groan | 1946 |
George Pelecanos | The Big Blowdown | 1996 |
George Pelecanos | Hard Revolution | 2004 |
Victor Pelevin | The Sacred Book of the Werewolf | 2008 |
Walker Percy | The Moviegoer | 1961 |
Georges Perec | La Disparition | 1969 |
Georges Perec | Les Revenentes | 1972 |
Georges Perec | La Vie mode d'emploi | 1978 |
Robert M Pirsig | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | 1974 |
Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar | 1963 |
Robert Plunkett | My Search for Warren Harding | 1983 |
Frederik Pohl & CM Kornbluth | The Space Merchants | 1953 |
Chaim Potok | My Name is Asher Lev | 1972 |
Anthony Powell | Afternoon Men | 1931 |
Anthony Powell | A Dance to the Music of Time | 1951-75 |
Anthony Powell | The Valley of Bones | 1964 |
Anthony Powell | The Soldier's Art | 1966 |
Anthony Powell | The Military Philosophers | 1968 |
Dawn Powell | A Time to Be Born | 1942 |
John Cowper Powys | A Glastonbury Romance | 1932 |
Abbé Prévost | Manon Lescaut | 1731 |
Terry Pratchett | The Discworld series | 1983- |
Richard Price | Lush Life | 2008 |
JB Priestley | The Good Companions | 1929 |
Christopher Priest | The Prestige | 1995 |
Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | 1993 |
Marcel Proust | Remembrance of Things Past | 1913-27 |
Philip Pullman | His Dark Materials | 1995-2000 |
Mario Puzo | The Godfather | 1969 |
Barbara Pym | Excellent Women | 1952 |
Barbara Pym | Less Than Angels | 1955 |
Thomas Pynchon | V | 1963 |
Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 | 1966 |
Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow | 1973 |
Thomas Pynchon | Vineland | 1990 |
Raymond Queneau | Zazie in the Metro | 1959 |
François Rabelais | Gargantua and Pantagruel | 1532-34 |
Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | 1794 |
Ian Rankin | Black & Blue | 1997 |
Ian Rankin | The Hanging Garden | 1998 |
Ian Rankin | Exit Music | 2007 |
Rudolf Erich Raspe | The Surprising Adventures Of Baron Munchausen | 1785 |
Simon Raven | Alms for Oblivion | 1964-76 |
Piers Paul Read | A Married Man | 1979 |
Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1929 |
Ruth Rendell | Judgment in Stone | 1977 |
Ruth Rendell | Live Flesh | 1986 |
Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space | 2000 |
Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea | 1966 |
Dorothy Richardson | Pointed Roofs | 1915 |
Henry Handel Richardson | Maurice Guest | 1908 |
Henry Handel Richardson | The Fortunes of Richard Mahony | 1930 |
Samuel Richardson | Pamela | 1740 |
Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | 1748 |
Mordecai Richler | Solomon Gursky Was Here | 1990 |
Kim Stanley Robinson | The Years of Rice and Salt | 2002 |
Marilynne Robinson | Gilead | 2004 |
Jooundso Guimaroundses Rosa | The Devil to Pay in the Backlands | 1956 |
Henry Roth | Call It Sleep | 1934 |
Joseph Roth | The Radetzky March | 1932 |
Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint | 1969 |
Philip Roth | American Pastoral | 1997 |
Philip Roth | The Human Stain | 2000 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse | 1761 |
JK Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 1997 |
Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | 1997 |
Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | 1981 |
Salman Rushdie | Shame | 1983 |
Salman Rushdie | The Satanic Verses | 1988 |
Joanna Russ | The Female Man | 1975 |
Geoff Ryman | Air | 2005 |
Rafael Sabatini | Scaramouche | 1921 |
Rafael Sabatini | Captain Blood His Odyssey | 1922 |
Françoise Sagan | Bonjour Tristesse | 1954 |
Kurban Said | Ali and Nino | 1928 |
Saki | The Westminster Alice | 1902 |
Saki | The Unbearable Bassington | 1912 |
JD Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | 1951 |
James Salter | The Hunters | 1956 |
James Salter | A Sport and a Pastime | 1967 |
James Salter | Light Years | 1975 |
Cora Sandel | Alberta and Jacob | 1926 |
CJ Sansom | Dissolution | 2003 |
José Saramago | Blindness | 1995 |
Dorothy L Sayers | Whose Body? | 1923 |
Dorothy L Sayers | Murder Must Advertise | 1933 |
Bernhard Schlink | The Reader | 1995 |
Leonardo Sciascia | To Each His Own | 1966 |
Paul Scott | Staying On | 1977 |
Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | 1819 |
Aara Seale | The Reluctant Orphan | 1947 |
Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle | Molesworth | 2000 |
Ronald Searle | Hurrah for St Trinian's | 1948 |
WG Sebald | The Rings of Saturn | 1995 |
WG Sebald | Austerlitz | 2001 |
Erich Segal | Love Story | 1970 |
Hubert Selby Jr | Last Exit to Brooklyn | 1964 |
Will Self | Great Apes | 1997 |
Will Self | How the Dead Live | 2000 |
Samuel Selvon | The Lonely Londoners | 1956 |
Ousmane Sembène | God's Bit of Wood | 1960 |
Victor Serge | The Case of Comrade Tulayev | 1950 |
Vikram Seth | A Suitable Boy | 1993 |
Anna Sewell | Black Beauty | 1877 |
Tom Sharpe | Porterhouse Blue | 1974 |
Tom Sharpe | Blott on the Landscape | 1975 |
Irwin Shaw | The Young Lions | 1949 |
Wilfred Sheed | Office Politics | 1966 |
Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | 1818 |
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | Uncle Silas | 1864 |
Lao She | Rickshaw Boy | 1936 |
Carol Shields | Unless | 2002 |
Lionel Shriver | We Need to Talk About Kevin | 2003 |
Nevil Shute | A Town Like Alice | 1950 |
Alan Sillitoe | Saturday Night & Sunday Morning | 1958 |
Georges Simenon | The Madman of Bergerac | 1932 |
Georges Simenon | The Blue Room | 1965 |
Charles Simmons | Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel | 1987 |
Dan Simmons | Hyperion | 1989 |
May Sinclair | The Three Sisters | 1914 |
Upton Sinclair | The Jungle | 1906 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | The Family Moskat | 1950 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | Enemies, a Love Story | 1972 |
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö | The Laughing Policeman | 1968 |
Elizabeth Smart | At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | 1945 |
Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres | 1991 |
Jane Smiley | Moo | 1995 |
Dodie Smith | I Capture the Castle | 1948 |
Martin Cruz Smith | Gorky Park | 1981 |
Stevie Smith | Novel on Yellow Paper | 1936 |
Thorne Smith | Topper Takes a Trip | 1932 |
Zadie Smith | White Teeth | 2000 |
Zadie Smith | On Beauty | 2005 |
Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Roderick Random | 1748 |
Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle | 1751 |
Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom | 1753 |
Tobias Smollett | The Expedition of Humphry Clinker | 1771 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | 1962 |
Ahdaf Soueif | The Map of Love | 1999 |
Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre | Fantômas | 1911 |
Muriel Spark | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 1961 |
Muriel Spark | The Girls of Slender Means | 1963 |
Muriel Spark | The Driver's Seat | 1970 |
Muriel Spark | Loitering With Intent | 1981 |
Muriel Spark | A Far Cry from Kensington | 1988 |
Art Spiegelman | Maus: A Survivor's Tale | 1973-1991 |
Olaf Stapledon | Star Maker | 1937 |
Christina Stead | The Man Who Loved Children | 1940 |
John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men | 1937 |
John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | 1939 |
John Steinbeck | East of Eden | 1952 |
Stendhal | The Red and the Black | 1830 |
Stendhal | The Charterhouse of Parma | 1839 |
Neal Stephenson | Snow Crash | 1992 |
Neal Stephenson | Cryptonomicon | 1999 |
Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | 1759 |
Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | 1768 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | 1883 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | 1886 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde | 1886 |
Mike Stocks | White Man Falling | 2006 |
Bram Stoker | Dracula | 1897 |
Robert Stone | A Flag for Sunrise | 1981 |
David Storey | This Sporting Life | 1960 |
Rex Stout | The League of Frightened Men | 1935 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852 |
Noel Streatfeild | Ballet Shoes | 1936 |
August Strindberg | The Red Room | 1879 |
William Styron | Sophie's Choice | 1979 |
Patrick Suüskind | Perfume | 1985 |
RS Surtees | Handley Cross | 1843 |
Jacqueline Susann | Valley of the Dolls | 1966 |
Italo Svevo | Confessions of Zeno | 1923 |
Graham Swift | Waterland | 1983 |
Jonathan Swift | A Tale of a Tub | 1704 |
Colm Tóibín | The Blackwater Lightship | 1999 |
Rabindranath Tagore | The Home and the World | 1916 |
Junichiro Tanizaki | Diary of a Mad Old Man | 1961 |
Booth Tarkington | Penrod | 1914 |
Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1918 |
Donna Tartt | The Secret History | 1992 |
Elizabeth Taylor | Angel | 1957 |
Josephine Tey | The Daughter of Time | 1951 |
William Makepeace Thackeray | The Luck of Barry Lyndon | 1844 |
William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | 1848 |
Angela Thirkell | Before Lunch | 1939 |
Leslie Thomas | Tropic of Ruislip | 1974 |
Flora Thompson | Lark Rise to Candleford | 1945 |
Jim Thompson | The Getaway | 1959 |
Rupert Thomson | The Insult | 1996 |
JRR Tolkien | The Hobbit | 1937 |
JRR Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | 1954-55 |
Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | 1869 |
Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | 1877 |
John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces | 1980 |
Sue Townsend | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 | 1982 |
Rose Tremain | Music and Silence | 1999 |
Robert Tressell | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | 1914 |
William Trevor | Death in Summer | 1998 |
Anthony Trollope | Barchester Towers | 1857 |
Anthony Trollope | The Last Chronicle of Barset | 1867 |
Anthony Trollope | The Way We Live Now | 1875 |
Kilgore Trout | Venus on the Half-Shell | 1974 |
Ivan Turgenev | First Love | 1860 |
Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | 1862 |
Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 1876 |
Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 1885 |
Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court | 1889 |
Mark Twain | Pudd'nhead Wilson | 1894 |
Mark Twain | The Mysterious Stranger | 1916 |
Anne Tyler | The Accidental Tourist | 1985 |
Anne Tyler | Breathing Lessons | 1988 |
Miguel de Unamuno | Peace in War | 1897 |
John Updike | The Rabbit Omnibus | 1960-90 |
John Updike | Couples | 1968 |
John Updike | The Witches of Eastwick | 1984 |
Vassilis Vassilikos | Z | 1967 |
Jules Verne | A Journey to the Centre of the Earth | 1864 |
Jules Verne | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1873 |
Gore Vidal | Williwaw | 1946 |
Barbara Vine | A Dark-Adapted Eye | 1986 |
Barbara Vine | A Fatal Inversion | 1987 |
Barbara Vine | King Solomon's Carpet | 1991 |
Voltaire | Candide | 1759 |
Kurt Vonnegut | Sirens of Titan | 1959 |
Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five | 1969 |
Kurt Vonnegut | Breakfast of Champions | 1973 |
Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 1982 |
David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest | 1996 |
Edgar Wallace | The Four Just Men | 1905 |
Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | 1764 |
Robert Walser | Institute Benjamenta | 1909 |
Chris Ware | Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth | 2000 |
Alan Warner | Morvern Callar | 1995 |
Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | 1926 |
Keith Waterhouse | Billy Liar | 1959 |
Sarah Waters | Affinity | 1999 |
Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | 2002 |
Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | 2006 |
Evelyn Waugh | Decline and Fall | 1928 |
Evelyn Waugh | Vile Bodies | 1930 |
Evelyn Waugh | Black Mischief | 1932 |
Evelyn Waugh | A Handful of Dust | 1934 |
Evelyn Waugh | Scoop | 1938 |
Evelyn Waugh | Put Out More Flags | 1942 |
Evelyn Waugh | The Loved One | 1948 |
Evelyn Waugh | Men at Arms | 1952 |
Charles Webb | The Graduate | 1963 |
Fay Weldon | The Life and Loves of a She-Devil | 1983 |
HG Wells | The Time Machine | 1895 |
HG Wells | The Island of Dr Moreau | 1896 |
HG Wells | The War of the Worlds | 1898 |
HG Wells | Tono Bungay | 1909 |
HG Wells | The History of Mr Polly | 1910 |
Irvine Welsh | Trainspotting | 1993 |
Robert Westall | The Machine-Gunners | 1975 |
Nathanael West | The Day of the Locust | 1939 |
Rebecca West | The Return of the Soldier | 1918 |
Rebecca West | The Fountain Overflows | 1957 |
Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | 1905 |
Edith Wharton | The Age of Innocence | 1920 |
Antonia White | Frost in May | 1933 |
Patrick White | The Tree of Man | 1955 |
Patrick White | Voss | 1957 |
TH White | The Sword in the Stone | 1938 |
Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1891 |
Nigel Williams | The Wimbledon Poisoner | 1990 |
Angus Wilson | Anglo-Saxon Attitudes | 1956 |
Angus Wilson | The Old Men at the Zoo | 1961 |
Jeanette Winterson | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | 1985 |
Jeanette Winterson | The Passion | 1987 |
Owen Wister | The Virginian | 1902 |
PG Wodehouse | Something Fresh | 1915 |
PG Wodehouse | Piccadilly Jim | 1918 |
PG Wodehouse | Heavy Weather | 1933 |
PG Wodehouse | Thank You Jeeves | 1934 |
PG Wodehouse | The Code of the Woosters | 1938 |
PG Wodehouse | Joy in the Morning | 1947 |
Gene Wolfe | The Book of the New Sun | 1980-83 |
Tom Wolfe | The Bonfire of the Vanities | 1987 |
Gerard Woodward | I'll Go to Bed at Noon | 2004 |
Mrs Henry Wood | East Lynne | 1861 |
Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | 1925 |
Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | 1927 |
Virginia Woolf | Orlando | 1928 |
Herman Wouk | The Caine Mutiny | 1951 |
Richard Wright | Native Son | 1940 |
Wu Cheng'en | Monkey | 1590s |
John Wyndham | Day of the Triffids | 1951 |
John Wyndham | The Midwich Cuckoos | 1957 |
Johann David Wyss | The Swiss Family Robinson | 1812 |
Richard Yates | Revolutionary Road | 1961 |
Yevgeny Zamyatin | We | 1924 |
Émile Zola | Therese Raquin | 1867 |
Émile Zola | Germinal | 1885 |
Émile Zola | La Bête Humaine | 1890 |
Émile Zola | The Debacle | 1892 |
Author by frequency
Author | Frequency |
---|---|
Charles Dickens | 9 |
Evelyn Waugh | 8 |
Graham Greene | 8 |
PG Wodehouse | 6 |
Joseph Conrad | 6 |
Jane Austin | 6 |
HG Wells | 5 |
Mark Twain | 5 |
Muriel Spark | 5 |
Anthony Powell | 5 |
Henry James | 5 |
Thomas Hardy | 5 |
George Eliot | 5 |
Agatha Christie | 5 |
Émile Zola | 4 |
Tobias Smollett | 4 |
Thomas Pynchon | 4 |
Vladimir Nabokov | 4 |
Cormac McCarthy | 4 |
DH Lawrence | 4 |
Dashiell Hammett | 4 |
André Gide | 4 |
Elizabeth Gaskell | 4 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | 4 |
Michael Dibdin | 4 |
Willa Cather | 4 |
Saul Bellow | 4 |
JG Ballard | 4 |
Virginia Woolf | 3 |
Sarah Waters | 3 |
Kurt Vonnegut | 3 |
Barbara Vine | 3 |
John Updike | 3 |
Anthony Trollope | 3 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | 3 |
John Steinbeck | 3 |
James Salter | 3 |
Salman Rushdie | 3 |
Philip Roth | 3 |
Ian Rankin | 3 |
Georges Perec | 3 |
David Peace | 3 |
George Orwell | 3 |
Toni Morrison | 3 |
Ian McEwan | 3 |
Thomas Mann | 3 |
Doris Lessing | 3 |
Rosamond Lehmann | 3 |
Stephen King | 3 |
James Joyce | 3 |
PD James | 3 |
Hermann Hesse | 3 |
Hergé | 3 |
Ernest Hemingway | 3 |
EM Forster | 3 |
Ian Fleming | 3 |
Gustave Flaubert | 3 |
William Faulkner | 3 |
Daphne du Maurier | 3 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | 3 |
Daniel Defoe | 3 |
Angela Carter | 3 |
JL Carr | 3 |
John le Carré | 3 |
Peter Carey | 3 |
Anthony Burgess | 3 |
Charlotte Brontë | 3 |
William Boyd | 3 |
Elizabeth Bowen | 3 |
Honoré de Balzac | 3 |
Beryl Bainbridge | 3 |
Margaret Atwood | 3 |
Martin Amis | 3 |
Eric Ambler | 3 |
John Wyndham | 2 |
Jeanette Winterson | 2 |
Angus Wilson | 2 |
Patrick White | 2 |
Edith Wharton | 2 |
Rebecca West | 2 |
Jules Verne | 2 |
Anne Tyler | 2 |
Ivan Turgenev | 2 |
Leo Tolstoy | 2 |
JRR Tolkien | 2 |
William Makepeace Thackeray | 2 |
Booth Tarkington | 2 |
Laurence Sterne | 2 |
Neal Stephenson | 2 |
Stendhal | 2 |
Zadie Smith | 2 |
Jane Smiley | 2 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | 2 |
Georges Simenon | 2 |
Tom Sharpe | 2 |
Will Self | 2 |
WG Sebald | 2 |
Dorothy L Sayers | 2 |
Saki | 2 |
Rafael Sabatini | 2 |
Samuel Richardson | 2 |
Henry Handel Richardson | 2 |
Ruth Rendell | 2 |
Barbara Pym | 2 |
George Pelecanos | 2 |
Thomas Love Peacock | 2 |
John Dos Passos | 2 |
Sara Paretsky | 2 |
VS Naipaul | 2 |
Iris Murdoch | 2 |
Haruki Murakami | 2 |
John Mortimer | 2 |
Elsa Morante | 2 |
Nancy Mitford | 2 |
Rohinton Mistry | 2 |
George Meredith | 2 |
Carson McCullers | 2 |
William Maxwell | 2 |
Naguib Mahfouz | 2 |
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis | 2 |
Gabriel García Márquez | 2 |
Jack London | 2 |
David Lodge | 2 |
Sinclair Lewis | 2 |
Elmore Leonard | 2 |
Milan Kundera | 2 |
Thomas Keneally | 2 |
Franz Kafka | 2 |
Kazuo Ishiguro | 2 |
Christopher Isherwood | 2 |
Aldous Huxley | 2 |
Alan Hollinghurst | 2 |
Patricia Highsmith | 2 |
Georgette Heyer | 2 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | 2 |
LP Hartley | 2 |
Thomas Harris | 2 |
Robert Harris | 2 |
Patrick Hamilton | 2 |
H Rider Haggard | 2 |
Ursula K Le Guin | 2 |
John Grisham | 2 |
William Golding | 2 |
George Gissing | 2 |
Michael Frayn | 2 |
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Wow. Public service indeed.
FWIW I would have grouped the entire Hitchiker's 'trilogy' as one book. The individuals novels in the series cannot be read in isolation.
Minor nitpick. You list JM Coetzee as M Coetzee.
Thanks Leon.
I did correct a number of Guardian errors along the way, but missed that one; I've fixed it now. No doubt I introduced my own errors in the process too.
Nicely done. But who's this "Jane Austin"? Is she any relation to Steve Austin (Astronaut)?
Martin: Yes, I think the relevant quote is at the start of one of Jane's less famous works, Will and Wanderlust: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of an Apollo Moon Rocket."
Thank you
reckon u could run that list thru Project Gutenberg (programmatically) to see what's available to dload?
Anonymous: Sorry for the delayed reply.
I'm not sure it would be so easy: as far as I can tell, Project Gutenberg doesn't have an API. Sure, one could search and try to parse the results, but it would be painful, especially given the non (7-bit) ASCII characters in a lot of the titles/authors, which really begs for XML or similar.
Still, I can make the raw data available if someone wants to try.
Personally, even though I'm really quite fond of the planet, I don't like reading electronic books with current technologies. Libraries are good though...
I've been trying to establish this list myself by cross-referencing the various articles on the website.
The Guardian's "definitive list" has 998 entries. It is missing the 5 "Great Arabic love stories", but has in addition 3 items not appearing in an article:
Vendetta by Michael Dibdin
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
I wonder if your list is the 1000 that they intended? Are the Great Arabic Love Stories meant to be there? Are they all available in translation? One could argue that Arabic Love Stories might be over-represented at 0.5%, but they have also included 3 Tintin books as separate enties.
That's interesting, Mark. I hadn't seen that they'd published their own "definitive list". (I wouldn't have bothered had I known...)
For what it's worth, I assembled my list by going through the (on-line) versions of their various articles. Pulling out just the titles from the main articles left me nearly 200 short. I then added in all the books listed in the minor/specialist articles.
I was rather pleased (and slightly surprised) that this produced a list of exactly 1,000, but took that as confirmation that I'd found them all.
It's interesting that theirs is different. Thanks for pointing it out.
If others are interested, the official Guardian definitive list is available here. I'll probably update the blog entry to include that too as an update.
Thanks for the list. But I wonder if all of these still available in the market?
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