The Guardian's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003)
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| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 1605 |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan | 1678 |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 |
| Clarissa | Samuel Richardson | 1748 |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | 1749 |
| Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne | 1759 |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | 1782 |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 1815 |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 |
| Nightmare Abbey | Thomas Love Peacock | 1818 |
| The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal | 1839 |
| The Black Sheep | Honore de Balzac | 1842 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas pere | 1844 |
| Sybil | Benjamin Disraeli | 1845 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 1847 |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 1847 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 1847 |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1850 |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1850 |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | 1860 |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 1869 |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1873 |
| The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope | 1875 |
| Daniel Deronda | George Eliot | 1876 |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1880 |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 1881 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886 |
| Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | 1889 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1890 |
| The Diary of a Nobody | George Grossmith | 1892 |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | 1895 |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 1903 |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers | 1903 |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad | 1904 |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 1908 |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1913 |
| The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | 1915 |
| The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence | 1915 |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1915 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 |
| A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | 1924 |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 1925 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 |
| Men Without Women | Ernest Hemingway | 1927 |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 1930 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 |
| Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 1932 |
| Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 1938 |
| U.S.A. Trilogy | 1938 | |
| The 42nd Parallel | John Dos Passos | 1930 |
| 1919 | John Dos Passos | 1932 |
| The Big Money | John Dos Passos | 1936 |
| The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 1939 |
| The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford | 1945 |
| The Plague | Albert Camus | 1947 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 1949 |
| Malone Dies | Samuel Beckett | 1951 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 |
| Charlotte's Web | E.B. White | 1952 |
| Wise Blood | Flannery O'Connor | 1952 |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1954 |
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | 1954 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1955 |
| The Quiet American | Graham Greene | 1955 |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1957 |
| The Tin Drum | Gunter Grass | 1959 |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 1959 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | 1961 |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow | 1964 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1967 |
| Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont | Elizabeth Taylor | 1971 |
| The Bottle Factory Outing | Beryl Bainbridge | 1974 |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | John le Carre | 1974 |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 1978 |
| A Bend in the River | V. S. Naipaul | 1979 |
| If on a Winter's Night a Traveller | Italo Calvino | 1979 |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera | 1979 |
| The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer | 1979 |
| Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | 1980 |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | J.M. Coetzee | 1980 |
| Lanark: A Life in Four Books | Alasdair Gray | 1981 |
| The BFG | Roald Dahl | 1982 |
| Money | Martin Amis | 1984 |
| The Periodic Table | Primo Levi | 1985 |
| An Artist of the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1986 |
| The New York Trilogy | Paul Auster | 1987 |
| Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey | 1988 |
| Haroun and the Sea af Stories | Salman Rushdie | 1990 |
| L.A. Confidential | James Ellroy | 1990 |
| Wise Children | Angela Carter | 1991 |
| Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) | Philip Pullman | 1995 |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth | 1997 |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | 2001 |
| Austerlitz | W. G. Sebald | 2001 |