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Guardian 1000 Novels

Guardian 1000 Novels is an unranked selection published in 2009 — one of the 14 sources behind the book canon, weighted as critics' canon. 199 of its 986 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

·52 Pick-up — Elmore Leonard
·A Bend in the River — VS NaipaulCanon #189
·A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M Miller Jr
·A Clockwork Orange — Anthony BurgessCanon #243
·A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy TooleCanon #240
·A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court — Mark Twain
·A Dance to the Music of Time — Anthony Powell
·A Dark-Adapted Eye — Barbara Vine
·A Dry White Season — Andre Brink
·A Fairy Tale of New York — JP Donleavy
·A Far Cry from Kensington — Muriel Spark
·A Farewell to Arms — Ernest HemingwayCanon #117
·A Fatal inversion — Barbara Vine
·A Fine Balance — Rohinton Mistry
·A Flag for Sunrise — Robert Stone
·A Girl in Winter — Philip Larkin
·A Glastonbury Romance — John Cowper Powys
·A Good Man in Africa — William Boyd
·A Gun for Sale — Graham Greene
·A Handful of Dust — Evelyn Waugh
·A Heart So White — Javier Marias
·A High Wind in Jamaica — Richard Hughes
·A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters — Julian Barnes
·A House for Mr Biswas — VS Naipaul
·A Journey to the Centre of the Earth — Jules Verne
·A Kestrel for a Knave — Barry Hines
·A Kind of Loving — Stan Barstow
·A Legacy — Sybille Bedford
·A Long Long Way — Sebastian Barry
·A Lost Lady — Willa Cather
·A Married Man — Piers Paul Read
·A Month in the Country — JL Carr
·A Passage to India — EM ForsterCanon #71
·A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James JoyceCanon #89
·A Prayer for Owen Meany — John IrvingCanon #201
·A Princess of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs
·A Quiet Belief in Angels — RJ Ellory
·A Rage in Harlem — Chester Himes
·A Rich Full Death — Michael Dibdin
·A Room with a View — EM ForsterCanon #224
·A Season in Sinji — JL Carr
·A Sentimental Journey — Lawrence Sterne
·A Sport and a Passtime — James Salter
·A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle
·A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth
·A Tale of a Tub — Jonathan Swift
·A Tale of Two Cities — Charles DickensCanon #82
·A Taste for Death — PD James
·A Thousand Acres — Jane Smiley
·A Time to be Born — Dawn Powell
·A Time to Kill — John Grisham
·A Town Like Alice — Nevil Shute
·A Voyage to Arcturus — David Lindsay
·Absolute Beginners — Colin MacInnes
·According to Queeney — Beryl Bainbridge
·Ada or Ardor — Vladimir Nabokov
·Adam Bede — George EliotCanon #140
·Affinity — Sarah Waters
·After London; or, Wild England — Richard Jefferies
·Afternoon Men — Anthony Powell
·Air — Geoff Ryman
·Alberta and Jacob — Cora Sandel
·Ali and Nino — Kurban Said
·Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
·All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria RemarqueCanon #123
·All Souls Day — Cees Nooteboom
·All the Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy
·Alms for Oblivion — Simon Raven
·American Gods — Neil Gaiman
·American Pastoral — Philip Roth
·American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis
·Amongst Women — John McGahern
·An American Tragedy — Theodore DreiserCanon #223
·An Ice-Cream War — William Boyd
·And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie
·Andersonville — MacKinlay Kantor
·Angel — Elizabeth Taylor
·Anglo-Saxon Attitudes — Angus Wilson
·Animal Farm — George OrwellCanon #37
·Anna Karenina — Leo TolstoyCanon #15
·Anthills of the Savannah — Chinua Achebe
·Any Human Heart — William Boyd
·Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules VerneCanon #175
·Arturo’s Island — Elsa Morante
·As I Lay Dying — William FaulknerCanon #221
·Ascent — Jed Mercurio
·Asterix the Gaul — Rene Goscinny
·Atomised — Michel Houellebecq
·Atonement — Ian McEwanCanon #136
·Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man — Henry Howarth Bashford
·Austerlitz — WG SebaldCanon #91
·Auto-da-Fe — Elias Canetti
·Babbitt — Sinclair LewisCanon #173
·Ballet Shoes — Noel Streatfield
·Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope
·Beauty and Saddness — Yasunari Kawabata
·Before Lunch — Angela Thirkell
·Behind the Scenes at the Museum — Kate Atkinson
·Being Dead — Jim Crace
·Bel-Ami — Guy de Maupassant
·Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel — Charles Simmons
·Beloved — Toni MorrisonCanon #29
·Berlin Alexanderplatz — Alfred DöblinCanon #84
·Beyond Black — Hilary Mantel
·Billy Liar — Keith Waterhouse
·Birdsong — Sebastian FaulksCanon #244
·Black and Blue — Ian Rankin
·Black Beauty — Anna SewellCanon #198
·Black Mischief — Evelyn Waugh
·Black Sunday — Thomas Harris
·Blacklist — Sara Paretsky
·Bleak House — Charles DickensCanon #44
·Blindness — Jose Saramago
·Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy
·Blott on the Landscape — Tom Sharpe
·Bold as Love — Gwyneth Jones
·Bomber — Len Deighton
·Bones and Silence — Reginald Hill
·Bonjour Tristesse — Francoise SaganCanon #162
·Bouvard et Pécuchet — Gustave Flaubert
·Brave New World — Aldous HuxleyCanon #38
·Breakfast at Tiffany’s — Truman Capote
·Breakfast of Champions — Kurt Vonnegut
·Breathing Lessons — Anne Tyler
·Bridget Jones’s Diary — Helen Fielding
·Bright Lights, Big City — Jay McInerney
·Brighton Rock — Graham GreeneCanon #236
·Buddenbrooks — Thomas MannCanon #68
·Burmese Days — George Orwell
·By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept — Elizabeth Smart
·Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard — W Somerset Maugham
·Call it Sleep — Henry Roth
·Camp Concentration — Thomas M Disch
·Candide — VoltaireCanon #36
·Caprice — Ronald Firbank
·Captain Blood — Rafael Sabatini
·Carrie’s War — Nina Bawden
·Casino Royale — Ian Fleming
·Castle Rackrent — Maria Edgeworth
·Catch-22 — Joseph HellerCanon #56
·Cat’s Eye — Margaret Atwood
·Changing Places — David Lodge
·Charade — John Mortimer
·Cheese — Willem Elsschot
·Cheri — Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
·Childhood’s End — Arthur C Clarke
·Chronicle in Stone — Ismael Kadare
·Cider with Rosie — Laurie Lee
·Clarissa — Samuel RichardsonCanon #127
·Claudine a l’ecole — Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
·Clayhanger — Arnold Bennett
·Cloud Atlas — David MitchellCanon #186
·Cold Comfort Farm — Stella GibbonsCanon #217
·Cold Mountain — Charles Frazier
·Confederates — Thomas Keneally
·Confessions of Zeno — Italo Svevo
·Consider Phlebas — Iain M Banks
·Cop Hater — Ed McBain
·Count Belisarius — Robert Graves
·Couples — John Updike
·Covenant with Death — John Harris
·Cover Her Face — PD James
·Cranford — Elizabeth GaskellCanon #119
·Crash — JG Ballard
·Crime and Punishment — Fyodor DostoevskyCanon #3
·Crome Yellow — Aldous Huxley
·Cry, the Beloved Country — Alan PatonCanon #209
·Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
·Daniel Deronda — George EliotCanon #182
·Darkmans — Nicola Barker
·Darkness at Noon — Arthur Koestler
·Darkness Falls from the Air — Nigel Balchin
·Darwin’s Radio — Greg Bear
·Day — AL Kennedy
·Day of the Triffids — John Wyndham
·De Niro’s Game — Rawi Hage
·Dead Lagoon — Michael Dibdin
·Dead Souls — Nikolai GogolCanon #46
·Death and the Penguin — Andrey Kurkov
·Death at the President’s Lodging — Michael Innes
·Death in Summer — William Trevor
·Death in Venice — Thomas Mann
·Death of a Hero — Richard Aldington
·Decline and Fall — Evelyn Waugh
·Deliverance — James Dickey
·Delta of Venus — Anais Nin
·Devil in a Blue Dress — Walter Mosley
·Diary of a Mad Old Man — Junichiro Tanizaki
·Diary of a Nobody — George Grossmith
·Dirty Tricks — Michael Dibdin
·Disgrace — JM Coetzee
·Dissolution — CJ Sansom
·Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K Dick
·Doctor Zhivago — Boris PasternakCanon #114
·Dolores Claiborne — Stephen King
·Dom Casmurro — Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
·Dombey and Son — Charles Dickens
·Don Quixote — Miguel de CervantesCanon #2
·Double Indemnity — James M Cain
·Dracula — Bram StokerCanon #60
·Dune — Frank L Herbert
·Earthly Powers — Anthony Burgess
·East Lynne — Ellen Wood
·East of Eden — John Steinbeck
·Effi Briest — Theodore Fontane
·Elmer Gantry — Sinclair Lewis
·Emma — Jane AustenCanon #155
·Empire of the Sun — JG Ballard
·Enduring Love — Ian McEwan
·Enemies, a Love Story — Isaac Bashevis Singer
·England, Their England — AG Macdonell
·Enigma — Robert Harris
·Ennui — Maria Edgeworth
·Epileptic — David B
·Epitaph for a Spy — Eric Ambler
·Erewhon — Samuel Butler
·Eugenie Grandet — Honore de BalzacCanon #138
·Evelina — Fanny Burney
·Everything is Illuminated — Jonathon Safran Foer
·Excellent Women — Barbara Pym
·Exit Music — Ian Rankin
·Extinction — Thomas Bernhard
·Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
·Fair Stood the Wind for France — HE Bates
·Family Matters — Rohinton Mistry
·Fantomas — Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
·Far From the Madding Crowd — Thomas HardyCanon #85
·Fatherland — Robert Harris
·Fathers and Sons — Ivan TurgenevCanon #81
·Fight Club — Chuck Palahniuk
·Fingersmith — Sarah Waters
·Finnegans Wake — James Joyce
·Fireflies — Shiva Naipaul
·First Love — Ivan Turgenev
·Flashman — George MacDonald Fraser
·Flaubert’s Parrot — Julian Barnes
·Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
·For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest HemingwayCanon #77
·Foreign Affairs — Alison Lurie
·Fortunes of War — Olivia Manning
·Foucault’s Pendulum — Umberto Eco
·Foundation — Isaac Asimov
·Frankenstein — Mary ShelleyCanon #14
·Friday the Rabbi Slept Late — Harry Kemelman
·From Here to Eternity — James Jones
·Frost in May — Antonia White
·Fun Home — Alison Bechdel
·Gargantua and Pantagruel — Francois RabelaisCanon #146
·GB84 — David Peace
·Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — Anita Loos
·Germinal — Emile ZolaCanon #106
·Get Shorty — Elmore Leonard
·Gilead — Marilynne RobinsonCanon #171
·Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin
·Girlfriend in a Coma — Douglas Coupland
·Go Tell it on the Mountain — James BaldwinCanon #196
·God’s Bit of Wood — Ousmane Sembene
·Goldfinger — Ian Fleming
·Gone With the Wind — Margaret MitchellCanon #47
·Good Behaviour — Molly Keane
·Goodbye to Berlin — Christopher Isherwood
·Gorky Park — Martin Cruz Smith
·Gravity’s Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon
·Great Apes — Will Self
·Great Expectations — Charles DickensCanon #17
·Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest — WH Hudson
·Greenmantle — John Buchan
·Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
·Handley Cross — RS Surtees
·Hangover Square — Patrick Hamilton
·Hard Revolution — George Pelecanos
·Hard Times — Charles DickensCanon #132
·Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone — JK Rowling
·Headlong Hall — Thomas Love Peacock
·Heart of Darkness — Joseph ConradCanon #59
·Heavy Weather — PG Wodehouse
·Hello Summer, Goodbye — Michael G Coney
·Herland — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
·Herzog — Saul BellowCanon #203
·Hideous Kinky — Esther Freud
·High Fidelity — Nick Hornby
·His Dark Materials — Philip Pullman
·History — Elsa Morante
·House of Leaves — Mark Danielewski
·How Green was My Valley — Richard Llewellyn
·How Late it Was, How Late — James Kelman
·How the Dead Live — Will Self
·Howards End — EM ForsterCanon #202
·Humboldt’s Gift — Saul Bellow
·Hunger — Knut HamsunCanon #53
·Hurrah for St Trinian’s — Ronald Searle
·Hyperion — Dan Simmons
·I Am Legend — Richard Matheson
·I Capture the Castle — Dodie Smith
·I Served the King of England — Bohumil Hrabal
·If Not Now, When? — Primo Levi
·Illywhacker — Peter Carey
·In the Country of Last Things — Paul Auster
·Independence Day — Richard Ford
·Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
·Ingenious Pain — Andrew Miller
·Institute Benjamenta — Robert Walser
·Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino
·Invitation to the Waltz — Rosamond Lehmann
·Ivanhoe — Sir Walter ScottCanon #158
·I’ll Go to Bed at Noon — Gerard Woodward
·Jacques the Fatalist and his Master — Denis Diderot
·Jane Eyre — Charlotte BronteCanon #10
·Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth — Chris Ware
·Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke
·Joseph Andrews — Henry Fielding
·Journey into Fear — Eric Ambler
·Journey to the End of the Night — Louis-Ferdinand CelineCanon #40
·Joy in the Morning — PG Wodehouse
·Jude the Obscure — Thomas HardyCanon #78
·Judgment in Stone — Ruth Rendell
·Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·July’s People — Nadine Gordimer
·Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton
·Just William — Richmal Crompton
·Justine — Lawrence Durrell
·Kidnapped — Robert Louis StevensonCanon #200
·Kim — Rudyard KiplingCanon #135
·Kindred — Octavia Butler
·King Solomon’s Carpet — Barbara Vine
·King Solomon’s Mines — H Rider Haggard
·La Bete Humaine — Emile Zola
·La Comedie Humaine — Honore de Balzac
·La Condition Humaine — Andre Malraux
·LA Confidential — James Ellroy
·La Disparition — Georges Perec
·La Vie Mode d’Emploi — Georges Perec
·Lady Audley’s Secret — Mary E Braddon
·Lady Chatterley’s Lover — DH Lawrence
·Lake Wobegon Days — Garrison Keillor
·Lanark — Alastair Gray
·Lark Rise to Candleford — Flora Thompson
·Last Exit to Brooklyn — Hubert Selby Jr
·Last Seen Wearing — Colin Dexter
·Le Grand Meaulnes — Henri Alain-FournierCanon #148
·Le Pere Goriot — Honore de BalzacCanon #32
·Les Enfants Terrible — Jean Cocteau
·Les Liaisons Dangereuses — Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
·Les Miserables — Victor HugoCanon #34
·Les Revenentes — Georges Perec
·Less Than Angels — Barbara Pym
·Life and Fate — Vassily Grossman
·Light — M John Harrison
·Light Years — James Salter
·Little Dorritt — Charles Dickens
·Little Women — Louisa May AlcottCanon #33
·Live Flesh — Ruth Rendell
·Living — Henry Green
·Loitering with Intent — Muriel Spark
·Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male — Vladimir Nabokov
·London Fields — Martin Amis
·Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurty
·Look At Me — Anita Brookner
·Lord Jim — Joseph ConradCanon #108
·Lord of the Flies — William GoldingCanon #100
·Lorna Doone — RD Blackmore
·Lost Souls — Poppy Z Brite
·Love for Lydia — HE Bates
·Love in a Cold Climate — Nancy Mitford
·Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia MarquezCanon #110
·Love on the Dole — Walter Greenwood
·Love Story — Eric Segal
·Lucky Jim — Kingsley AmisCanon #233
·Lush Life — Richard Price
·Madame Bovary — Gustave FlaubertCanon #6
·Main Street — Sinclair LewisCanon #242
·Malice Aforethought — Francis Iles
·Malone Dies — Samuel Beckett
·Manon Lescaut — Abbe Prevost
·Manservant and Maidservant — Ivy Compton-Burnett
·Mansfield Park — Jane AustenCanon #124
·Martin Chuzzlewit — Charles Dickens
·Martin Eden — Jack LondonCanon #204
·Mary Barton — Elizabeth Gaskell
·Master Georgie — Beryl Bainbridge
·Maurice Guest — Henry Handel Richardson
·Maus — Art Spiegelman
·McTeague — Frank Norris
·Melmoth the Wanderer — Charles Maturin
·Memet my Hawk — Yasar Kemal
·Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf — David Madsen
·Memoirs of a Survivor — Doris Lessing
·Men at Arms — Evelyn Waugh
·Microserfs — Douglas Coupland
·Middlemarch — George EliotCanon #11
·Middlesex — Jeffrey EugenidesCanon #144
·Midnight’s Children — Salman Rushdie
·Millennium People — JG Ballard
·Misery — Stephen King
·Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow — Peter Hoeg
·Mister Johnson — Joyce Cary
·Moby-Dick or, The Whale — Herman Melville
·Molesworth — Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
·Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe
·Molloy — Samuel BeckettCanon #94
·Money — Martin Amis
·Moo — Jane Smiley
·Moon over Africa — Pamela Kent
·More Die of Heartbreak — Saul Bellow
·Morvern Callar — Alan Warner
·Mother — Maxim Gorky
·Mother London — Michael Moorcock
·Motherless Brooklyn — Jonathan Lethem
·Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House — Eric Hodgins
·Mr Norris Changes Trains — Christopher Isherwood
·Mrs Dalloway — Virginia WoolfCanon #18
·Murder Must Advertise — Dorothy Le Sayers
·Music and Silence — Rose Tremain
·My Antonia — Willa CatherCanon #199
·My Cousin Rachel — Daphne du Maurier
·My Family and Other Animals — Gerald Durrell
·My Name Is Asher Lev — Chaim Potok
·My Name is Red — Orhan Pamuk
·My New York Diary — Julie Doucet
·My Search for Warren Harding — Robert Plunkett
·Naked Lunch — William Burroughs
·Narziss and Goldmund — Hermann Hesse
·Native Son — Richard WrightCanon #176
·Neuromancer — William Gibson
·New Grub Street — George Gissing
·News from Nowhere — William Morris
·Nice Work — David Lodge
·Nightmare Abbey — Thomas Love Peacock
·Nights at the Circus — Angela Carter
·Nightwood — Djuna Barnes
·Nineteen Eighty-Four — George OrwellCanon #13
·Nineteen Seventy Four — David Peace
·Nineteen Seventy Seven — David Peace
·No Bed for Bacon — Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
·No Country for Old Men — Cormac McCarthy
·No Orchids for Miss Blandish — James Hadley Chase
·Non-Stop — Brian W Aldiss
·North and South — Elizabeth Gaskell
·Northanger Abbey — Jane AustenCanon #174
·Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
·Nostromo — Joseph ConradCanon #43
·Notes from the Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
·Novel on Yellow Paper — Stevie Smith
·Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov
·Of Human Bondage — Somerset MaughamCanon #213
·Of Love & Hunger — Julian Maclaren-Ross
·Of Mice and Men — John SteinbeckCanon #130
·Office Politics — Wilfrid Sheed
·Oliver Twist — Charles DickensCanon #107
·On Beauty — Zadie SmithCanon #187
·On the Road — Jack KerouacCanon #86
·One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
·One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Ken Kesey
·One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel Garcia MarquezCanon #4
·One of Ours — Willa Cather
·Only Forward — Michael Marshall Smith
·Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit — Jeanette Winterson
·Orlando — Virginia WoolfCanon #164
·Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave — Aphra Behn
·Oscar and Lucinda — Peter CareyCanon #188
·Our Man in Havana — Graham Greene
·Palace Walk — Naguib Mahfouz
·Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov
·Pamela — Samuel Richardson
·Parade’s End — Ford Madox Ford
·Passing — Nella Larsen
·Patience and Sarah — Isabel Miller
·Peace in War — Miguel de Unamuno
·Penrod — Booth Tarkington
·Perfume — Patrick Suskind
·Persuasion — Jane AustenCanon #57
·Piccadilly Jim — PG Wodehouse
·Pictures from an Institution — Randall Jarrell
·Pig Tales — Marie Darrieussecq
·Play It As It Lays — Joan Didion
·Pnin — Vladimir Nabokov
·Poetic Justice — Amanda Cross
·Pointed Roofs — Dorothy Richardson
·Porterhouse Blue — Tom Sharpe
·Portnoy’s Complaint — Philip Roth
·Portrait of a Lady — Henry JamesCanon #62
·Possession — AS Byatt
·Postmortem — Patricia Cornwell
·Pride and Prejudice — Jane AustenCanon #5
·Puckoon — Spike Milligan
·Pudd’nhead Wilson — Mark Twain
·Put Out More Flags — Evelyn Waugh
·Quarantine — Jim Crace
·Queen Lucia — EF Benson
·Rasselas — Samuel Johnson
·Ratking — Michael Dibdin
·Rebecca — Daphne du MaurierCanon #109
·Red Dragon — Thomas Harris
·Red Harvest — Dashiell Hammett
·Red Shift — Alan Garner
·Regency Buck — Georgette Heyer
·Regeneration — Pat Barker
·Remembering Babylon — David Malouf
·Remembrance of Things Past — Marcel ProustCanon #102
·Revelation Space — Alastair Reynolds
·Revolutionary Road — Richard Yates
·Richshaw Boy — Lao She
·Riddley Walker — Russell Hoban
·Ringworld — Larry Niven
·Robinson Crusoe — Daniel DefoeCanon #55
·Rogue Male — Geoffrey Household
·Rogue Moon — Algis Budrys
·Room at the Top — John Braine
·Room Temperature — Nicholson Baker
·Roxana — Daniel Defoe
·Rubyfruit Jungle — Rita Mae Brown
·Ruth — Elizabeth Gaskell
·Sacaramouche — Rafael Sabatini
·Samarkand — Amin Maalouf
·Sanctuary — William Faulkner
·Satanic Verses — Salman Rushdie
·Saturday Night and Sunday Morning — Alan Sillitoe
·Schindler’s Ark — Thomas Keneally
·Scoop — Evelyn Waugh
·Sense and Sensibility — Jane AustenCanon #157
·Sentimental Education — Gustave FlaubertCanon #88
·Shame — Salman Rushdie
·Sharpe’s Eagle — Bernard Cornwell
·She: A History of Adventure — H Rider Haggard
·Shirley — Charlotte BronteCanon #246
·Sidetracked — Henning Mankell
·Silas Marner — George EliotCanon #122
·Silence — Shusaku Endo
·Silence of the Grave — Arnadur Indridason
·Silver Stallion — Junghyo Ahn
·Sirens of Titan — Kurt Vonnegut
·Sister Carrie — Theodor DreiserCanon #161
·Slaughter-House Five — Kurt Vonnegut
·Slouching Towards Kalamazoo — Peter De Vries
·Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
·So Long, See you Tomorrow — William Maxwell
·Solaris — Stanislaw Lem
·Solomon Gursky Was Here — Mordecai Richler
·Something Fresh — PG Wodehouse
·Song of Solomon — Toni MorrisonCanon #192
·Sons and Lovers — DH LawrenceCanon #51
·Sophie’s Choice — William Styron
·Sour Sweet — Timothy Mo
·South Riding — Winifred Holtby
·South Wind — Norman Douglas
·Spies — Michael Frayn
·Squire Haggard’s Journal — Michael Green
·Star Maker — Olaf Stapledon
·Staying On — Paul Scott
·Steppenwolf — Herman HesseCanon #215
·Strait is the Gate — Andre Gide
·Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A Heinlein
·Strangers on a Train — Patricia Highsmith
·Suite Francaise — Irene NemirovskyCanon #235
·Sunset Song — Lewis Grassic Gibbon
·Swiss Family Robinson — Johann David Wyss
·Sybil or The Two Nations — Benjamin Disraeli
·Tales of the City — Armistead Maupin
·Tales of the South Pacific — James Michener
·Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness — Kezaburo Oe
·Tender is the Night — F Scott FitzgeraldCanon #156
·Tess of the D’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
·Thank You Jeeves — PG Wodehouse
·The Accidental Tourist — Anne Tyler
·The Adventures of Augie March — Saul Bellow
·The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Tobias Smollett
·The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
·The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle — Tobias Smollett
·The Adventures of Roderick Random — Tobias Smollett
·The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark TwainCanon #126
·The African Queen — CS Forester
·The Age of Innocence — Edith WhartonCanon #153
·The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay — Michael ChabonCanon #228
·The Ambassadors — Henry JamesCanon #97
·The Andromeda Strain — Michael Crichton
·The Ascent of Rum Doodle — WE Bowman
·The Asphalt Jungle — WR Burnett
·The Assistant — Bernard Malamud
·The Awakening — Kate Chopin
·The Bamboo Bed — William Eastlake
·The Baron in the Trees — Italo Calvino
·The Beach — Alex Garland
·The Beast Must Die — Nicholas Blake
·The Bell Jar — Sylvia PlathCanon #216
·The Betrothed — Alessandro ManzoniCanon #133
·The Big Blowdown — George Pelecanos
·The Big Nowhere — James Ellroy
·The Big Sleep — Raymond ChandlerCanon #165
·The Black Prince — Iris Murdoch
·The Blackwater Lightship — Colm Toibin
·The Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood
·The Blue Flower — Penelope Fitzgerald
·The Blue Room — Georges Simenon
·The Bluest Eye — Toni MorrisonCanon #247
·The Bonfire of the Vanities — Tom Wolfe
·The Book of Daniel — EL Doctorow
·The Book of Laughter and Forgetting — Milan Kundera
·The Book of the New Sun — Gene Wolfe
·The Bottle Factory Outing — Beryl Bainbridge
·The Bourne Identity — Robert Ludlum
·The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor DostoevskyCanon #87
·The Buddha of Suburbia — Hanif Kureishi
·The Butcher Boy — Patrick McCabe
·The Caine Mutiny — Herman Wouk
·The Call of the Wild — Jack LondonCanon #92
·The Case of Comrade Tulayev — Victor Serge
·The Case of the Gilded Fly — Edmund Crispin
·The Castafiore Emerald — Georges Remi Herge
·The Castle — Franz KafkaCanon #76
·The Castle of Otranto — Horace Walpole
·The Catcher in the Rye — JD SalingerCanon #42
·The Charterhouse of Parma — StendhalCanon #195
·The Chateau — William Maxwell
·The Child in Time — Ian McEwan
·The Children of Men — PD James
·The Children of the New Forest — Frederick Marryat
·The Chronicles of Narnia — CS Lewis
·The Code of the Woosters — PG Wodehouse
·The Color Purple — Alice WalkerCanon #159
·The Coming Race — EGEL Bulwer-Lytton
·The Commitments — Roddy Doyle
·The Constant Gardener — John le Carre
·The Corrections — Jonathan FranzenCanon #142
·The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre DumasCanon #54
·The Counterfeiters — Andre GideCanon #98
·The Crab with the Golden Claws — Georges Remi Herge
·The Crime of Father Amaro — José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
·The Crow Road — Iain Banks
·The Cruel Sea — Nicholas Monsarrat
·The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon
·The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time — Mark Haddon
·The Daughter of Time — Josephine Tey
·The Day of the Jackal — Frederick Forsyth
·The Day of the Locust — Nathanael West
·The Death of the Heart — Elizabeth Bowen
·The Death of Virgil — Hermann Broch
·The Debacle — Emile Zola
·The Debt to Pleasure — John Lanchester
·The Devil to Pay in the Backlands — Joao Guimaraes Rosa
·The Discworld Series — Terry Pratchett
·The Driver’s Seat — Muriel Spark
·The Drowned World — JG Ballard
·The Earthsea Series — Ursula Le Guin
·The Echoing Grove — Rosamond Lehmann
·The Egoist — George Meredith
·The Einstein Intersection — Samuel R Delaney
·The End of the Affair — Graham Greene
·The End of the World News — Anthony Burgess
·The English Patient — Michael Ondaatje
·The Expedition of Humphry Clinker — Tobias Smollett
·The Face of Another — Kobo Abe
·The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate — Isaac Bashevis Singer
·The Famished Road — Ben Okri
·The Far Pavillions — Mary Margaret Kaye
·The Female Man — Joanna Russ
·The Forever War — Joe Haldeman
·The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney — Henry Handel Richardson
·The Fountain Overflows — Rebecca West
·The Four Just Men — Edgar Wallace
·The French Lieutenant’s Woman — John Fowles
·The Friends of Eddie Coyle — George V Higgins
·The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis — Giorgio Bassani
·The Gathering — Anne Enright
·The Getaway — Jim Thompson
·The Girls of Slender Means — Muriel Spark
·The Glass Bead Game — Herman HesseCanon #237
·The Glass Key — Dashiell Hammett
·The Go-Between — LP Hartley
·The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
·The Godfather — Mario PuzoCanon #212
·The Golden Notebook — Doris LessingCanon #41
·The Good Companions — JB Priestley
·The Good Soldier — Ford Madox FordCanon #177
·The Good Soldier Svejk — Jaroslav Hasek
·The Graduate — Charles Webb
·The Grapes of Wrath — John SteinbeckCanon #21
·The Grass is Singing — Doris Lessing
·The Great Gatsby — F Scott FitzgeraldCanon #19
·The Great Impersonation — E Phillips Oppenheim
·The Group — Mary McCarthy
·The Guns of Navarone — Alistair MacLean
·The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood
·The Hanging Gardens — Ian Rankin
·The Harpole Report — JL Carr
·The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson
·The Hearing Trumpet — Leonora Carrington
·The Heart is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers
·The Heat of the Day — Elizabeth Bowen
·The History Man — Malcolm Bradbury
·The History of Mr Polly — HG Wells
·The History of Pompey the Little — Francis Coventry
·The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
·The Hobbit — JRR TolkienCanon #154
·The Hollow Man — John Dickson Carr
·The Home and the World — Rabindranath Tagore
·The Horse’s Mouth — Joyce Cary
·The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan DoyleCanon #72
·The House of Mirth — Edith WhartonCanon #129
·The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel HawthorneCanon #160
·The Human Stain — Philip RothCanon #145
·The Hunters — James Salter
·The Idiot — Fyodor DostoevskyCanon #65
·The Immoralist — Andre Gide
·The Infamous Army — Georgette Heyer
·The Influence — Ramsey Campbell
·The Information — Martin Amis
·The Insult — Rupert Thomson
·The Invisible Man — Ralph EllisonCanon #20
·The Ipcress File — Len Deighton
·The Island of Dr Moreau — HG Wells
·The Jungle — Upton SinclairCanon #172
·The King of Torts — John Grisham
·The Kingdom of this World — Alejo Carpentier
·The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
·The L Shaped Room — Lynne Reid Banks
·The Last Chronicle of Barset — Anthony Trollope
·The Last September — Elizabeth Bowen
·The Laughing Policeman — Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
·The League of Frightened Men — Rex Stout
·The Lecturer’s Tale — James Hynes
·The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula Le Guin
·The Leopard — Giuseppi di LampedusaCanon #170
·The Life and Loves of a She-Devil — Fay Weldon
·The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman — Laurence Sterne
·The Line of Beauty — Alan HollinghurstCanon #143
·The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-ExuperyCanon #35
·The Little World of Don Camillo — Giovanni Guareschi
·The Lonely Londoners — Samuel Selvon
·The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne — Brian Moore
·The Long Goodbye — Raymond Chandler
·The Lord of the Rings — JRR TolkienCanon #66
·The Loved One — Evelyn Waugh
·The Lover — Marguerite Duras
·The Luck of Barry Lyndon — William Makepeace Thackeray
·The Machine-Gunners — Robert Westall
·The Madman of Bergerac — Georges Simenon
·The Magic Mountain — Thomas MannCanon #26
·The Magnificent Ambersons — Booth Tarkington
·The Magus — John Fowles
·The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett
·The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick
·The Man of Property — John Galsworthy
·The Man Who Loved Children — Christina Stead
·The Man who was Thursday — GK Chesterton
·The Man with the Golden Arm — Nelson Algren
·The Man Without Qualities — Robert MusilCanon #61
·The Manchurian Candidate — Richard Condon
·The Mandarins — Simone de Beauvoir
·The Map of Love — Ahdaf Soueif
·The Mark of Zorro — Johnston McCulley
·The Mask of Dimitrios — Eric Ambler
·The Master and Margarita — Mikhail BulgakovCanon #121
·The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas HardyCanon #103
·The Member of the Wedding — Carson McCullers
·The Midwich Cuckoos — John Wyndham
·The Mighty Walzer — Howard Jacobson
·The Military Philosophers — Anthony Powell
·The Mill on the Floss — George EliotCanon #128
·The Millstone — Margaret Drabble
·The Ministry of Fear — Graham Greene
·The Monk — Matthew Lewis
·The Moon and the Bonfire — Cesare Pavese
·The Moonstone — Wilkie CollinsCanon #99
·The Moviegoer — Walker Percy
·The Murder at the Vicarage — Agatha Christie
·The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha ChristieCanon #151
·The Mysteries of Udolpho — Ann Radcliffe
·The Mysterious Affair at Styles — Agatha Christie
·The Mysterious Stranger — Mark Twain
·The Naked and the Dead — Norman Mailer
·The Name of the Rose — Umberto EcoCanon #116
·The Neon Rain — James Lee Burke
·The New York Trilogy — Paul Auster
·The Night Sessions — Ken Macleod
·The Night Watch — Sarah Waters
·The Odd Women — George Gissing
·The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest HemingwayCanon #83
·The Old Men at the Zoo — Angus Wilson
·The Old Wives’ Tale — Arnold Bennett
·The Ordeal of Richard Feverek — George Meredith
·The Outsider — Albert Camus
·The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski
·The Painter of Signs — RK Narayan
·The Parasites — Daphne du Maurier
·The Passion — Jeanette Winterson
·The Passion of New Eve — Angela Carter
·The Piano Teacher — Elfriede Jelinek
·The Pickwick Papers — Charles DickensCanon #249
·The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar WildeCanon #73
·The Plague — Albert CamusCanon #118
·The Pledge — Friedrich Durrenmatt
·The Poisoned Chocolates Case — Anthony Berkeley
·The Polygots — William Gerhardie
·The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas — Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
·The Postman Always Rings Twice — James M Cain
·The Power and the Glory — Graham GreeneCanon #179
·The Prestige — Christopher Priest
·The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel SparkCanon #96
·The Princess of Cleves — Madame de LafayetteCanon #219
·The Prisoner of Zenda — Anthony Hope
·The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner — James Hogg
·The Professor’s House — Willa Cather
·The Provincial Lady — EM Delafield
·The Pursuit of Love — Nancy Mitford
·The Rabbit Omnibus — John Updike
·The Radetzky March — Joseph RothCanon #211
·The Ragazzi Pier — Paolo Pasolini
·The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists — Robert TressellCanon #113
·The Rainbow — DH LawrenceCanon #95
·The Reader — Bernhard Schlink
·The Recognitions — William Gaddis
·The Rector’s Daughter — FM Mayor
·The Red and the Black — StendhalCanon #28
·The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen CraneCanon #150
·The Red Room — August Stringberg
·The Reluctant Orphan — Aara Seale
·The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
·The Remorseful Day — Colin Dexter
·The Restraint of Beasts — Magnus Mills
·The Return of the Soldier — Rebecca West
·The Riddle of the Sands — Erskine Childers
·The Rings of Saturn — WG Sebald
·The Road — Cormac McCarthyCanon #190
·The Sacred Book of the Werewolf — Victor Pelevin
·The Savage Detectives — Roberto BolanoCanon #112
·The Scar — China Mieville
·The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel HawthorneCanon #58
·The Scarlet Pimpernel — Baroness Emmuska Orczy
·The Secret Adversary — Agatha Christie
·The Secret Agent — Joseph ConradCanon #197
·The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 — Sue Townsend
·The Secret History — Donna Tartt
·The Sheltering Sky — Paul Bowles
·The Shining — Stephen King
·The Ship — CS Forester
·The Shipping News — E Annie Proulx
·The Shrimp and the Anemone — LP Hartley
·The Siege of Krishnapur — JG Farrell
·The Sign of Four — Arthur Conan Doyle
·The Silent Duchess — Dacia Maraini
·The Slaves of Solitude — Patrick Hamilton
·The Snow Goose — Paul Gallico
·The Soldier’s Art — Anthony Powell
·The Sorrow of War — Bao Ninh
·The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang GoetheCanon #30
·The Sound and the Fury — William FaulknerCanon #25
·The Sound of my Voice — Ron Butlin
·The Space Merchants — Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth
·The Sportswriter — Richard Ford
·The Spy Who Came in from the Cold — John le Carre
·The Stars My Destination — Alfred Bester
·The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent — E Phillips Oppenheim
·The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
·The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen — Rudolp Erich Raspe
·The Swimming-Pool Library — Alan Hollinghurst
·The Sword in the Stone — TH White
·The Talented Mr Ripley — Patricia Highsmith
·The Thin Man — Dashiell Hammett
·The Third Man — Graham Greene
·The Thirty-Nine Steps — John Buchan
·The Three Musketeers — Alexandre DumasCanon #115
·The Three Paradoxes — Paul Hornschemeier
·The Three Sisters — May Sinclair
·The Time Machine — HG WellsCanon #208
·The Time of Indifference — Alberto Moravia
·The Time Ships — Stephen Baxter
·The Time Traveler’s Wife — Audrey Niffenegger
·The Tin Drum — Gunter GrassCanon #45
·The Tin Roof Blowdown — James Lee Burke
·The Tortoise and the Hare — Elizabeth Jenkins
·The Towers of Trebizond — Rose Macaulay
·The Transit of Venus — Shirley Hazzard
·The Tree of Man — Patrick White
·The Trial — Franz KafkaCanon #9
·The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
·The Unbearable Bassington — Saki
·The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan KunderaCanon #220
·The Uncommon Reader — Alan Bennett
·The Unconsoled — Kazuo Ishiguro
·The Unfortunates — BS Johnson
·The Vagabond — Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
·The Valley of Bones — Anthony Powell
·The Vatican Cellars — Andre Gide
·The Vicar of Wakefield — Oliver GoldsmithCanon #120
·The Victorian Chaise-longue — Marghanita Laski
·The Virgin in the Garden — AS Byatt
·The Virgin Suicides — Jeffrey Eugenides
·The Virginian — Owen Wister
·The Wapshot Chronicle — John Cheever
·The War of the Worlds — HG WellsCanon #125
·The Wasp Factory — Iain Banks
·The Way of All Flesh — Samuel ButlerCanon #181
·The Way We Live Now — Anthony Trollope
·The Weather in the Streets — Rosamond Lehmann
·The Well of Loneliness — Radclyffe Hall
·The Westminster Alice — Saki
·The Wimbledon Poisoner — Nigel Williams
·The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth GrahameCanon #147
·The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami
·The Wings of the Dove — Henry JamesCanon #214
·The Witches of Eastwick — John Updike
·The Woman in White — Wilkie CollinsCanon #79
·The Woodlanders — Thomas Hardy
·The Years of Rice and Salt — Kim Stanley Robinson
·The Young Lions — Irwin Shaw
·Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale HurstonCanon #63
·Therese Raquin — Emile Zola
·They Were Counted — Miklos Banffy
·Things Fall Apart — Chinua AchebeCanon #16
·This Sporting Life — David Storey
·Three Men in a Boat — Jerome K Jerome
·Three Soldiers — John Dos Passos
·Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There — Lewis CarrollCanon #194
·Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — John le CarreCanon #234
·Tintin in Tibet — Georges Remi Herge
·Titmuss Regained — John Mortimer
·Titus Groan — Mervyn Peake
·To Each his Own — Leonardo Sciascia
·To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper LeeCanon #27
·To The Ends of the Earth trilogy — William Golding
·To the Lighthouse — Virginia WoolfCanon #23
·Tobacco Road — Erskine Caldwell
·Tom Brown’s Schooldays — Thomas Hughes
·Tom Jones — Henry FieldingCanon #74
·Tono Bungay — HG Wells
·Topper Takes a Trip — Thorne Smith
·Tourist Season — Carl Hiaasen
·Towards the End of the Morning — Michael Frayn
·Toxic Shock — Sara Paretsky
·Trainspotting — Irvine Welsh
·Travels with My Aunt — Graham Greene
·Treasure Island — Robert Louis StevensonCanon #75
·Trent’s Last Case — EC Bentley
·Tropic of Cancer — Henry Miller
·Tropic of Ruislip — Leslie Thomas
·True History of the Ned Kelly Gang — Peter Carey
·Two Serious Ladies — Jane Bowles
·Ulysses — James JoyceCanon #1
·Uncle Silas — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
·Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Harriet Beecher StoweCanon #52
·Under the Net — Iris Murdoch
·Under the Skin — Michel Faber
·Under the Volcano — Malcolm LowryCanon #207
·Under Western Eyes — Joseph Conrad
·Underworld — Don DeLillo
·Unless — Carol Shields
·Untouchable — Mulk Raj Anand
·USA — John Dos Passos
·Valley of the Dolls — Jacqueline Susann
·Vanity Fair — William Makepeace ThackerayCanon #39
·Vathek — William Beckford
·Vendetta — Michael Dibdin
·Venus on the Half-Shell — Kilgore Trout
·Victory: An Island Tale — Joseph Conrad
·Vile Bodies — Evelyn Waugh
·Vilette — Charlotte Bronte
·Vineland — Thomas Pynchon
·Voss — Patrick White
·Vurt — Jeff Noon
·Waiting for the Barbarians — JM Coeztee
·War and Peace — Leo TolstoyCanon #12
·Washington Square — Henry James
·Waterland — Graham Swift
·We — Yevgeny Zamyatin
·We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lionel Shriver
·Weaveworld — Clive Barker
·What a Carve Up! — Jonathan Coe
·When the Wind Blows — Raymond Briggs
·Whisky Galore — Compton Mackenzie
·White Man Falling — Mike Stocks
·White Noise — Don DeLillo
·White Teeth — Zadie SmithCanon #183
·Who Do You Think You Are? — Alice Munro
·Whose Body? — Dorothy L Sayers
·Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean RhysCanon #80
·Wieland — Charles Brockden Brown
·Williwaw — Gore Vidal
·Wise Children — Angela Carter
·Women in Love — DH LawrenceCanon #90
·Wuthering Heights — Emily BronteCanon #7
·You Only Live Twice — Ian Fleming
·Zami — Audre Lorde
·Zazie in the Metro — Raymond Queneau
·Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert Pirsig
·Zorba the Greek — Nikos KazantzakisCanon #134
·Zuleika Dobson — Max Beerbohm

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