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Telegraph 100 Novels

Telegraph 100 Novels is an unranked selection published in 2009 — one of the 14 sources behind the book canon, weighted as editorial list. 66 of its 102 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

·1984 — George OrwellCanon #239
·A Bend in the River — V.S. NaipaulCanon #189
·A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement — Anthony Powell
·A Passage to India — E.M. ForsterCanon #71
·Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll
·All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria RemarqueCanon #123
·Alla and the Piano – The Russian Tragedy 1912 to 1924 — Morten Kvistgaard
·Anna Karenina — Leo TolstoyCanon #15
·Atonement — Ian McEwanCanon #136
·Austerlitz — W.G. SebaldCanon #91
·Beloved — Toni MorrisonCanon #29
·Brighton Rock — Graham GreeneCanon #236
·Catch-22 — Joseph HellerCanon #56
·Cider with Rosie — Laurie Lee
·Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady — Samuel Richardson
·Cold Comfort Farm — Stella GibbonsCanon #217
·Cranford — Elizabeth GaskellCanon #119
·Crash — J.G. Ballard
·Crime and Punishment — Fyodor DostoevskyCanon #3
·David Copperfield — Charles DickensCanon #49
·Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant — Anne Tyler
·Disgrace — J.M. Coetzee
·Doctor Zhivago — Boris PasternakCanon #114
·Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraCanon #2
·Eugene Onegin — Alexander Pushkin
·Frankenstein — Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyCanon #14
·Germinal — Émile ZolaCanon #106
·Go Tell It on the Mountain — James BaldwinCanon #196
·Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
·Heart of Darkness — Joseph ConradCanon #59
·If on a Winter's Night a Traveler — Italo Calvino
·In Search of Lost Time — Marcel ProustCanon #50
·Jane Eyre — Charlotte BrontëCanon #10
·Le Père Goriot — Honoré de BalzacCanon #32
·Le Voyeur — Alain Robbe-Grillet
·Les Misérables — Victor HugoCanon #34
·Life: A User's Manual — Georges Perec
·Lolita — Vladimir NabokovCanon #24
·London Fields — Martin Amis
·Lucky Jim — Kingsley AmisCanon #233
·Madame Bovary — Gustave FlaubertCanon #6
·Middlemarch — George EliotCanon #11
·Midnight’s Children — Salman Rushdie
·Moby-Dick or, The Whale — Herman Melville
·Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia WoolfCanon #18
·My Name Is Red — Orhan Pamuk
·Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre
·On the Road — Jack KerouacCanon #86
·One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García MárquezCanon #4
·Oscar and Lucinda — Peter CareyCanon #188
·Pride and Prejudice — Jane AustenCanon #5
·Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels — John Updike
·Robinson Crusoe — Daniel DefoeCanon #55
·Scoop — Evelyn Waugh
·Suite Française — Irène NémirovskyCanon #235
·Tess of the D’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
·The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
·The Arabian Nights — Anonymous
·The Big Sleep — Raymond ChandlerCanon #165
·The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street — Naguib Mahfouz
·The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. SalingerCanon #42
·The Code of the Woosters — P.G. Wodehouse
·The Dream of the Red Chamber — Cao Xueqin
·The Foundlings and the Fisherman from Tumby — Phillip Leighton-Daly
·The Glass Bead Game — Hermann HesseCanon #237
·The Golden Notebook — Doris LessingCanon #41
·The Grapes of Wrath — John SteinbeckCanon #21
·The Great Gatsby — F. Scott FitzgeraldCanon #19
·The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood
·The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — Henry Fielding
·The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas AdamsCanon #248
·The Home and the World — Rabindranath Tagore
·The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan DoyleCanon #72
·The House of Mirth — Edith WhartonCanon #129
·The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaCanon #170
·The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman — Laurence Sterne
·The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. TolkienCanon #66
·The Moonstone — Wilkie CollinsCanon #99
·The Name of the Rose — Umberto EcoCanon #116
·The Portrait of a Lady — Henry JamesCanon #62
·The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel SparkCanon #96
·The Red and the Black — StendhalCanon #28
·The Savage Detectives — Roberto BolañoCanon #112
·The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCanon #30
·The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror — Robert Louis Stevenson
·The Stranger — Albert CamusCanon #67
·The Tale of Genji — Murasaki ShikibuCanon #22
·The Three Musketeers — Alexandre DumasCanon #115
·The Tin Drum — Günter GrassCanon #45
·The Trial — Franz KafkaCanon #9
·The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan KunderaCanon #220
·The War of the Worlds — H.G. WellsCanon #125
·The Warden — Anthony Trollope
·Things Fall Apart — Chinua AchebeCanon #16
·Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — John le CarréCanon #234
·To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper LeeCanon #27
·Ulysses — James JoyceCanon #1
·Under the Net — Iris Murdoch
·Underworld — Don DeLillo
·Waiting for the Mahatma — R.K. Narayan
·Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean RhysCanon #80
·Wuthering Heights — Emily BrontëCanon #7

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.