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The top 10 locked-room mysteries

McKinty, Adrian (29 January 2014). "The top 10 locked-room mysteries". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2016.

10. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) 9. The Case of the Constant Suicides John Dickson Carr (1941) 8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939) 7. Suddenly At His Residence by Christianna Brand (1946) 6. The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill (1892) 5. The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (1908) 4. The King Is Dead by Ellery Queen (1951) 3. La Septième hypothèse by Paul Halter (1991) 2. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada (1981) 1. The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr (1935)

The 100 best novels written in English

McCrum, Robert (17 August 2015). "The 100 best novels written in English: the full list". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

No.	Title	Author	Year	More
1	The Pilgrim’s Progress	John Bunyan	1678	The Guardian
2	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	1719	The Guardian
3	Gulliver’s Travels	Jonathan Swift	1726	The Guardian
4	Clarissa	Samuel Richardson	1748	The Guardian
5	Tom Jones	Henry Fielding	1749	The Guardian
6	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	Laurence Sterne	1759	The Guardian
7	Emma	Jane Austen	1816	The Guardian
8	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	1818	The Guardian
9	Nightmare Abbey	Thomas Love Peacock	1818	The Guardian
10	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe	1838	The Guardian
11	Sybil	Benjamin Disraeli	1845	The Guardian
12	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	1847	The Guardian
13	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	1847	The Guardian
14	Vanity Fair	William Thackeray	1848	The Guardian
15	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	1850	The Guardian
16	The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1850	The Guardian
17	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	1851	The Guardian
18	Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1865	The Guardian
19	The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins	1868	The Guardian
20	Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	1868-9	The Guardian
21	Middlemarch	George Eliot	1871-2	The Guardian
22	The Way We Live Now	Anthony Trollope	1875	The Guardian
23	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	1884/5	The Guardian
24	Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson	1886	The Guardian
25	Three Men in a Boat	Jerome K Jerome	1889	The Guardian
26	The Sign of Four	Arthur Conan Doyle	1890	The Guardian
27	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	1891	The Guardian
28	New Grub Street	George Gissing	1891	The Guardian
29	Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy	1895	The Guardian
30	The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	1895	The Guardian
31	Dracula	Bram Stoker	1897	The Guardian
32	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	1899	The Guardian
33	Sister Carrie	Theodore Dreiser	1900	The Guardian
34	Kim	Rudyard Kipling	1901	The Guardian
35	The Call of the Wild	Jack London	1903	The Guardian
36	The Golden Bowl	Henry James	1904	The Guardian
37	Hadrian the Seventh	Frederick Rolfe	1904	The Guardian
38	The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	1908	The Guardian
39	The History of Mr Polly	HG Wells	1910	The Guardian
40	Zuleika Dobson	Max Beerbohm	1911	The Guardian
41	The Good Soldier	Ford Madox Ford	1915	The Guardian
42	The Thirty-Nine Steps	John Buchan	1915	The Guardian
43	The Rainbow	DH Lawrence	1915	The Guardian
44	Of Human Bondage	W Somerset Maugham	1915	The Guardian
45	The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	1920	The Guardian
46	Ulysses	James Joyce	1922	The Guardian
47	Babbitt	Sinclair Lewis	1922	The Guardian
48	A Passage to India	EM Forster	1924	The Guardian
49	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	Anita Loos	1925	The Guardian
50	Mrs Dalloway	Virginia Woolf	1925	The Guardian
51	The Great Gatsby	F Scott Fitzgerald	1925	The Guardian
52	Lolly Willowes	Sylvia Townsend Warner	1926	The Guardian
53	The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway	1926	The Guardian
54	The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett	1929	The Guardian
55	As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	1930	The Guardian
56	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	1932	The Guardian
57	Cold Comfort Farm	Stella Gibbons	1932	The Guardian
58	Nineteen Nineteen	John Dos Passos	1932	The Guardian
59	Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller	1934	The Guardian
60	Scoop	Evelyn Waugh	1938	The Guardian
61	Murphy	Samuel Beckett	1938	The Guardian
62	The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	1939	The Guardian
63	Party Going	Henry Green	1939	The Guardian
64	At Swim-Two-Birds	Flann O’Brien	1939	The Guardian
65	The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	1939	The Guardian
66	Joy in the Morning	PG Wodehouse	1946	The Guardian
67	All the King’s Men	Robert Penn Warren	1946	The Guardian
68	Under the Volcano	Malcolm Lowry	1947	The Guardian
69	The Heat of the Day	Elizabeth Bowen	1948	The Guardian
70	Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	1949	The Guardian
71	The End of the Affair	Graham Greene	1951	The Guardian
72	The Catcher in the Rye	JD Salinger	1951	The Guardian
73	The Adventures of Augie March	Saul Bellow	1953	The Guardian
74	Lord of the Flies	William Golding	1954	The Guardian
75	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	1955	The Guardian
76	On the Road	Jack Kerouac	1957	The Guardian
77	Voss	Patrick White	1957	The Guardian
78	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	1960	The Guardian
79	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark	1960	The Guardian
80	Catch-22	Joseph Heller	1961	The Guardian
81	The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing	1962	The Guardian
82	A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	1962	The Guardian
83	A Single Man	Christopher Isherwood	1964	The Guardian
84	In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	1966	The Guardian
85	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	1966	The Guardian
86	Portnoy's Complaint	Philip Roth	1969	The Guardian
87	Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont	Elizabeth Taylor	1971	The Guardian
88	Rabbit Redux	John Updike	1971	The Guardian
89	Song of Solomon	Toni Morrison	1977	The Guardian
90	A Bend in the River	VS Naipaul	1979	The Guardian
91	Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	1981	The Guardian
92	Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson	1981	The Guardian
93	Money: A Suicide Note	Martin Amis	1984	The Guardian
94	An Artist of the Floating World	Kazuo Ishiguro	1986	The Guardian
95	The Beginning of Spring	Penelope Fitzgerald	1988	The Guardian
96	Breathing Lessons	Anne Tyler	1988	The Guardian
97	Amongst Women	John McGahern	1990	The Guardian
98	Underworld	Don DeLillo	1997	The Guardian
99	Disgrace	JM Coetzee	1999	The Guardian
100	True History of the Kelly Gang	Peter Carey	2000	The Guardian

The 50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels

"Drawn Out: The 50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels". Rolling Stone. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2016.

No.	Title	Author
50	The Puma Blues	Stephen Murphy and Michael Zulli
49	Multiple Warheads	Brandon Graham
48	Berlin	Jason Lutes
47	Safe Area Gorazde	Joe Sacco
46	Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths	Shigeru Mizuki
45	100 Bullets	Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
44	You'll Never Know	C. Tyler
43	Usagi Yojimbo	Stan Sakai
42	Hark! A Vagrant	Kate Beaton
41	Finder	Carla Speed McNeil
40	Pluto	Naoki Urasawa
39	Sex Criminals	Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
38	Saga	Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
37	Stray Bullets	David Lapham
36	Paying for It	Chester Brown
35	Journey	William Messner-Loebs
34	Unterzakhan	Leela Corman
33	Dal Tokyo	Gary Panter
32	Mister X	Dean Motter and Various
31	Diary of a Teenage Girl	Phoebe Gloeckner
30	The Incal	Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius
29	Preacher	Garth Ennis
28	What It Is	Lynda Barry
27	Curses	Kevin Huzenga
26	FreakAngels	Warren Ellis
25	It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken	Seth
24	Our Cancer Year	Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner and Frank Stack
23	The Cowboy Wally Show	Kyle Baker
22	Twisted Sisters	Various
21	Akira	Katshuiro Otomo
20	Black Hole	Charles Burns
19	Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea	Guy Delisle
18	King Cat	John Porcellino
17	A Contract With God	Will Eisner
16	Cerebus	Dave Sim
15	Uncle Scrooge	Carl Barks
14	Achewood	Chris Onstad
13	The Adventures of Tintin	Hergé
12	Hicksville	Dylan Horrocks
11	Alec: The Years Have Pants	Eddie Campbell
10	Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
9	Ghost World	Daniel Clowes
8	Epileptic	David B.
7	The Invisibles	Grant Morrison and Various
6	From Hell	Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
5	The Complete Robert Crumb	Robert Crumb
4	Fun Home	Alison Bechdel
3	Maus	Art Spiegelman
2	Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Boy on Earth	Chris Ware
1	Love and Rockets	Los Bros Hernandez

The 100 greatest non-fiction books

"The 100 greatest non-fiction books". The Guardian. 14 June 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

Title	Author	Year	Genre
The Shock of the New	Robert Hughes	1980	Art
The Story of Art	Ernst Gombrich	1950	Art
Ways of Seeing	John Berger	1972	Art
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects	Giorgio Vasari	1550	Biography
The Life of Samuel Johnson	James Boswell	1791	Biography
The Diaries of Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	1825	Biography
Eminent Victorians	Lytton Strachey	1918	Biography
Goodbye to All That	Robert Graves	1929	Biography
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas	Gertrude Stein	1933	Biography
Notes on Camp	Susan Sontag	1964	Culture
Mythologies	Roland Barthes	1972	Culture
Orientalism	Edward Said	1978	Culture
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson	1962	Environment
The Revenge of Gaia	James Lovelock	1979	Environment
The Histories	Herodotus	c400 BC	History
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Edward Gibbon	1776	History
The History of England	Thomas Babington Macaulay	1848	History
Eichmann in Jerusalem	Hannah Arendt	1963	History
The Making of the English Working Class	EP Thompson	1963	History
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Dee Brown	1970	History
Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression	Studs Terkel	1970	History
Shah of Shahs	Ryszard Kapuściński	1982	History
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991	Eric Hobsbawm	1994	History
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Familes	Philip Gourevitch	1999	History
Postwar	Tony Judt	2005	History
The Journalist and the Murderer	Janet Malcolm	1990	Journalism
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	Tom Wolfe	1968	Journalism
Dispatches	Michael Herr	1977	Journalism
The Lives of the Poets	Samuel Johnson	1781	Literature
An Image of Africa	Chinua Achebe	1975	Literature
The Uses of Enchantment	Bruno Bettelheim	1976	Literature
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid	Douglas Hofstadter	1979	Mathematics
Confessions	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1782	Memoir
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave	Frederick Douglass	1845	Memoir
De Profundis	Oscar Wilde	1905	Memoir
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom	TE Lawrence	1922	Memoir
The Story of My Experiments with Truth	Mahatma Gandhi	1927	Memoir
Homage to Catalonia	George Orwell	1938	Memoir
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	1947	Memoir
Speak, Memory	Vladimir Nabokov	1951	Memoir
The Man Died	Wole Soyinka	1971	Memoir
The Periodic Table	Primo Levi	1975	Memoir
Bad Blood	Lorna Sage	2000	Memoir
The Interpretation of Dreams	Sigmund Freud	1899	Mind
The Romantic Generation	Charles Rosen	1998	Music
The Symposium	Plato	c380 BC	Philosophy
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	c180	Philosophy
Essays	Michel de Montaigne	1580	Philosophy
The Anatomy of Melancholy	Robert Burton	1621	Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy	René Descartes	1641	Philosophy
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	David Hume	1779	Philosophy
Critique of Pure Reason	Immanuel Kant	1781	Philosophy
Phenomenology of Mind	GWF Hegel	1807	Philosophy
Walden	HD Thoreau	1854	Philosophy
On Liberty	John Stuart Mill	1859	Philosophy
Thus Spake Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietzsche	1883	Philosophy
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	Thomas Kuhn	1962	Philosophy
The Art of War	Sun Tzu	c500 BC	Politics
The Prince	Niccolò Machiavelli	1532	Politics
Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes	1651	Politics
The Rights of Man	Thomas Paine	1791	Politics
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Mary Wollstonecraft	1792	Politics
The Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels	1848	Politics
The Souls of Black Folk	WEB DuBois	1903	Politics
The Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir	1949	Politics
The Wretched of the Earth	Franz Fanon	1961	Politics
The Medium is the Massage	Marshall McLuhan	1967	Politics
The Female Eunuch	Germaine Greer	1970	Politics
Manufacturing Consent	Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman	1988	Politics
Here Comes Everybody	Clay Shirky	2008	Politics
The Golden Bough	James George Frazer	1890	Religion
The Varieties of Religious Experience	William James	1902	Religion
On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	1859	Science
The Character of Physical Law	Richard Feynmann	1965	Science
The Double Helix	James Watson	1968	Science
The Selfish Gene	Richard Dawkins	1976	Science
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	1988	Science
The Book of the City of Ladies	Christine de Pisan	1405	Society
Praise of Folly	Erasmus	1511	Society
Letters Concerning the English Nation	Voltaire	1734	Society
Suicide	Émile Durkheim	1897	Society
Economy and Society	Max Weber	1922	Society
A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf	1929	Society
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	James Agee and Walker Evans	1941	Society
The Feminine Mystique	Betty Friedan	1963	Society
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	1966	Society
Slouching Towards Bethlehem	Joan Didion	1968	Society
The Gulag Archipelago	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	1973	Society
Discipline and Punish	Michel Foucault	1975	Society
News of a Kidnapping	Gabriel García Márquez	1996	Society
The Travels of Ibn Battuta	Ibn Battuta	1355	Travel
Innocents Abroad	Mark Twain	1869	Travel
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon	Rebecca West	1941	Travel
Venice	Jan Morris	1960	Travel
A Time of Gifts	Patrick Leigh Fermor	1977	Travel
Danube	Claudio Magris	1986	Travel
China Along the Yellow River	Cao Jinqing	1995	Travel
The Rings of Saturn	WG Sebald	1995	Travel
Passage to Juneau	Jonathan Raban	2000	Travel
Letters to a Young Novelist	Mario Vargas Llosa	2002	Travel

1000 novels everyone must read

"1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive list". The Guardian. 23 January 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2016.

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

The Rough Guide to Classic Novels

Mason, Simon (May 2008). The Rough Guide to Classic Novels. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84353-516-4.

No.	Title	Year	Author	Nationality	Genre
1	Emma	1816	Jane Austen	English	Love
2	Pride and Prejudice	1813	Jane Austen	English	Love
3	Jane Eyre	1847	Charlotte Brontë	English	Love
4	Wuthering Heights	1847	Emily Brontë	English	Love
5	Fanny Hill	1748–49	John Cleland	English	Love
6	Chéri	1920	Collette	French	Love
7	Adolphe	1816	Benjamin Constant	French	Love
8	The Lover	1984	Marguerite Duras	French	Love
9	Adam Bede	1859	George Eliot	English	Love
10	The Blue Flower	1995	Penelope Fitzgerald	English	Love
11	Madame Bovary	1857	Gustave Flaubert	French	Love
12	Effi Briest	1894	Theodor Fontane	German	Love
13	The Good Soldier (pockets #35)	1915	Ford Madox Ford	English	Love
14	The French Lieutenant's Woman	1969	John Fowles	English	Love
15	Elective Affinities	1809	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	German	Love
16	The Sorrows of Young Werther	1774	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	German	Love
17	Loving	1945	Henry Green	English	Love
18	The Sun Also Rises	1926	Ernest Hemingway	American	Love
19	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	1984	Milan Kundera	Czech	Love
20	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	1782	Choderlos de Laclos	French	Love
21	The Princess of Clèves	1678	Madame de Lafayette	French	Love
22	The Golden Notebook	1962	Doris Lessing	Zimbabwean	Love
23	The Sea, the Sea	1978	Iris Murdoch	English	Love
24	Lolita	1955	Vladimir Nabokov	Russian	Love
25	Doctor Zhivago	1958	Boris Pasternak	Russian	Love
26	Manon Lescaut	1731	Abbé Prévost	French	Love
27	Pamela	1740–41	Samuel Richardson	English	Love
28	Anna Karenina	1877	Leo Tolstoy	Russian	Love
29	First Love	1860	Ivan Turgenev	Russian	Love
30	Little Women	1868	Louisa May Alcott	American	Families
31	Go Tell It on the Mountain	1954	James Baldwin	American	Families
32	Manservant and Maidservant	1947	Ivy Compton-Burnett	English	Families
33	The Brothers Karamazov	1880	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Russian	Families
34	Castle Rackrent	1800	Maria Edgeworth	Irish	Families
35	The Sound and the Fury	1929	William Faulkner	American	Families
36	The Vicar of Wakefield	1766	Oliver Goldsmith	Irish	Families
37	Burger's Daughter	1979	Nadine Gordimer	South African	Families
38	Sons and Lovers	1913	D.H. Lawrence	English	Families
39	One Hundred Years of Solitude	1967	Gabriel García Márquez	Colombian	Families
40	Beloved	1987	Toni Morrison	American	Families
41	A Personal Matter	1964	Kenzaburō Ōe	Japanese	Families
42	Radetzky March	1932	Joseph Roth	Austrian	Families
43	American Pastoral	1997	Philip Roth	American	Families
44	The Golovlyov Family	1875–80	Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin	Russian	Families
45	The Street of Crocodiles	1934	Bruno Schulz	Polish	Families
46	The Makioka Sisters	1943–48	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki	Japanese	Families
47	Fathers and Sons	1862	Ivan Turgenev	Russian	Families
48	Of the Farm	1965	John Updike	American	Families
49	To the Lighthouse	1927	Virginia Woolf	English	Families
50	Le Grand Meaulnes	1913	Alain-Fournier	French	Rites of passage
51	The Death of the Heart	1938	Elizabeth Bowen	English	Rites of passage
52	The Death of Virgil	1946	Hermann Broch	German	Rites of passage
53	Evelina	1778	Fanny Burney	English	Rites of passage
54	The Bride Price	1976	Buchi Emecheta	Nigerian	Rites of passage
55	My Brilliant Career	1901	Miles Franklin	Australian	Rites of passage
56	Man in the Holocene	1979	Max Frisch	Swiss	Rites of passage
57	The Death of Artemio Cruz	1962	Carlos Fuentes	Mexican	Rites of passage
58	The Master of Go	1954	Yasunari Kawabata	Japanese	Rites of passage
59	To Kill a Mockingbird	1960	Harper Lee	American	Rites of passage
60	Weep Not, Child	1964	Ngugi Wa Thiong'o	Kenyan	Rites of passage
61	In Search of Lost Time	1913–27	Marcel Proust	French	Rites of passage
62	The Catcher in the Rye	1951	J.D. Salinger	American	Rites of passage
63	Memento Mori	1959	Muriel Spark	Scottish	Rites of passage
64	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1884	Mark Twain	American	Rites of passage
65	Memoirs of Hadrian	1951	Marguerite Yourcenar	French	Rites of passage
66	Nightwood	1936	Djuna Barnes	American	Heroes
67	Molloy Malone Dies The Unnamable	1955–59	Samuel Beckett	Irish	Heroes
68	Herzog	1964	Saul Bellow	American	Heroes
69	The Outsider	1942	Albert Camus	French	Heroes
70	Nostromo	1904	Joseph Conrad	Polish–British	Heroes
71	Hopscotch	1963	Julio Cortázar	Argentine	Heroes
72	Wonderful Fool	1959	Shūsaku Endō	Japanese	Heroes
73	Jonathan Wild	1743	Henry Fielding	English	Heroes
74	Oblomov	1859	Ivan Goncharov	Russian	Heroes
75	Mysteries	1892	Knut Hamsen	Norwegian	Heroes
76	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	1891	Thomas Hardy	English	Heroes
77	Against Nature	1884	Joris-Karl Huysmans	French	Heroes
78	The Piano Teacher	1983	Elfriede Jelinek	Austrian	Heroes
79	Independent People	1934–35	Halldor Laxness	Icelandic	Heroes
80	A Hero of Our Time	1840	Mikhail Lermontov	Russian	Heroes
81	The Hour of the Star	1977	Clarice Lispector	Brazilian	Heroes
82	Max Havelaar	1860	Multatuli	Dutch	Heroes
83	The Man Without Qualities	1930–42	Robert Musil	Austrian	Heroes
84	Coming Through Slaughter	1979	Michael Ondaatje	Sri Lankan–Canadian	Heroes
85	Lolly Willowes	1926	Sylvia Townsend Warner	English	Heroes
86	The Quest for Christa T	1968	Christa Wolf	German	Heroes
87	Cousin Bette	1846	Honoré de Balzac	French	Making it
88	Lost Illusions	1837–43	Honoré de Balzac	French	Making it
89	Robinson Crusoe	1719	Daniel Defoe	English	Making it
90	Great Expectations	1860–61	Charles Dickens	English	Making it
91	Sister Carrie	1900	Theodore Dreiser	American	Making it
92	The Great Gatsby	1925	F. Scott Fitzgerald	American	Making it
93	The Provost	1822	John Galt	Scottish	Making it
94	The Mayor of Casterbridge	1886	Thomas Hardy	English	Making it
95	Their Eyes Were Watching God	1937	Zora Neale Hurston	American	Making it
96	The Wings of the Dove	1902	Henry James	American	Making it
97	Esther Waters	1894	George Moore	Irish	Making it
98	A House for Mr Biswas	1961	V.S. Naipaul	Trinidadian	Making it
99	The Violent Bear It Away	1960	Flannery O'Connor	American	Making it
100	Hester	1883	Margaret Oliphant	Scottish	Making it
101	Soul	1935	Andrey Platonov	Russian	Making it
102	Midnight's Children	1981	Salman Rushdie	Indian	Making it
103	The Grapes of Wrath	1939	John Steinbeck	American	Making it
104	The Charterhouse of Parma	1839	Stendhal	French	Making it
105	The Red and the Black	1830	Stendhal	French	Making it
106	Vanity Fair	1848	William Makepeace Thackeray	English	Making it
107	The House of Mirth	1905	Edith Wharton	American	Making it
108	Don Quixote	1604–14	Miguel de Cervantes	Spanish	Adventure
109	The Riddle of the Sands	1903	Robert Erskine Childers	Irish	Adventure
110	Last of the Mohicans	1826	James Fenimore Cooper	American	Adventure
111	The Count of Monte Cristo	1844–46	Alexandre Dumas	French	Adventure
112	Tom Jones	1749	Henry Fielding	English	Adventure
113	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	1831	Victor Hugo	French	Adventure
114	Kim	1901	Rudyard Kipling	English	Adventure
115	Moby Dick	1851	Herman Melville	American	Adventure
116	The Wind-up Bird Chronicle	1994	Haruki Murakami	Japanese	Adventure
117	The Heart of Midlothian	1818	Walter Scott	Scottish	Adventure
118	Voss	1957	Patrick White	Australian	Adventure
119	Things Fall Apart	1958	Chinua Achebe	Nigerian	War
120	Crash	1973	J.G. Ballard	English	War
121	Oroonoko	1688	Aphra Behn	English	War
122	The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum	1974	Heinrich Böll	German	War
123	Journey to the End of Night	1932	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	French	War
124	Waiting for the Barbarians	1980	J.M. Coetzee	South African	War
125	Heart of Darkness	1902	Joseph Conrad	Polish–British	War
126	Libra	1988	Don DeLillo	American	War
127	The Tin Drum	1959	Günter Grass	German	War
128	Simplicius Simplicissimus	1688	Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen	German	War
129	Life and Fate	1980	Vasily Grossman	Russian	War
130	The Good Soldier Švejk	1921–23	Jaroslav Hašek	Czech	War
131	Catch-22	1961	Joseph Heller	American	War
132	Farewell to Arms	1929	Ernest Hemingway	American	War
133	Memed, My Hawk	1958	Yaşar Kemal	Turkish	War
134	Schindler's Ark	1982	Thomas Keneally	Australian	War
135	Garden, Ashes	1965	Danilo Kiš	Serbian	War
136	The Naked and the Dead	1949	Norman Mailer	American	War
137	Blood Meridian	1985	Cormac McCarthy	American	War
138	Snow	2002	Orhan Pamuk	Turkish	War
139	The Crying of Lot 49	1966	Thomas Pynchon	American	War
140	The Emigrants	1993	W.G. Sebald	German	War
141	Cancer Ward	1968	Alexander Solzhenitsyn	Russian	War
142	Hadji Murad	1912	Leo Tolstoy	Russian	War
143	War and Peace	1865	Leo Tolstoy	Russian	War
144	The Ogre	1970	Michel Tournier	French	War
145	Germinal	1885	Émile Zola	French	War
146	Winesburg, Ohio	1919	Sherwood Anderson	American	A sense of place
147	The Sheltering Sky	1949	Paul Bowles	American	A sense of place
148	A Month in the Country	1980	J.L. Carr	English	A sense of place
149	My Ántonia	1918	Willa Cather	American	A sense of place
150	Ragtime	1975	E.L. Doctorow	American	A sense of place
151	Manhattan Transfer	1925	John Dos Passos	American	A sense of place
152	Rebecca	1938	Daphne du Maurier	English	A sense of place
153	The Alexandria Quartet	1957–60	Lawrence Durrell	English	A sense of place
154	Middlemarch	1871–72	George Eliot	English	A sense of place
155	Valmouth	1919	Ronald Firbank	English	A sense of place
156	A Passage to India	1924	E.M. Forster	English	A sense of place
157	Cranford	1851–53	Elizabeth Gaskell	English	A sense of place
158	Lanark	1981	Alasdair Gray	Scottish	A sense of place
159	Ulysses	1922	James Joyce	Irish	A sense of place
160	The Leopard	1958	Giorgio Bassani	Sicilian	A sense of place
161	The Cairo Trilogy	1956–57	Naguib Mahfouz	Egyptian	A sense of place
162	The Magic Mountain	1924	Thomas Mann	German	A sense of place
163	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	1940	Carson McCullers	American	A sense of place
164	The Moon and the Bonfires	1950	Cesare Pavese	Italian	A sense of place
165	Life A User's Manual	1978	Georges Perec	French	A sense of place
166	The Maias	1888	José Maria de Eça de Queirós	Portuguese	A sense of place
167	Wide Sargasso Sea	1966	Jean Rhys	Dominican	A sense of place
168	The Devil's Pool	1846	George Sand	French	A sense of place
169	The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis	1984	José Saramago	Portuguese	A sense of place
170	Barchester Towers	1857	Anthony Trollope	English	A sense of place
171	A Sportsman's Sketches	1852	Ivan Turgenev	Russian	A sense of place
172	The Handmaid's Tale	1985	Margaret Atwood	Canadian	Incredible worlds
173	Fahrenheit 451	1953	Ray Bradbury	American	Incredible worlds
174	The Master and Margarita	1938	Mikhail Bulgakov	Russian	Incredible worlds
175	Erewhon	1872	Samuel Butler	English	Incredible worlds
176	Invisible Cities	1972	Italo Calvino	Italian	Incredible worlds
177	Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass	1865 1872	Lewis Carroll	English	Incredible worlds
178	The Inheritors	1955	William Golding	English	Incredible worlds
179	Brave New World	1932	Aldous Huxley	English	Incredible worlds
180	The Left Hand of Darkness	1969	Ursula K. Le Guin	American	Incredible worlds
181	Nineteen Eighty-Four	1949	George Orwell	English	Incredible worlds
182	Gulliver's Travels	1726	Jonathan Swift	Irish	Incredible worlds
183	The Lord of the Rings	1954–55	J.R.R. Tolkein	English	Incredible worlds
184	The Time Machine	1895	H.G. Wells	English	Incredible worlds
185	We	1924	Yevgeny Zamyatin	Russian	Incredible worlds
186	The Man Who Was Thursday	1907	G.K. Chesterton	English	Horror
187	The Hound of the Baskervilles	1902	Arthur Conan Doyle	English	Horror
188	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	1924	James Hogg	Scottish	Horror
189	The Turn of the Screw	1898	Henry James	American	Horror
190	The Mysteries of Udolpho	1794	Ann Radcliffe	English	Horror
191	Frankenstein	1818	Mary Shelley	English	Horror
192	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	1886	Robert Louis Stevenson	Scottish	Horror
193	Dracula	1897	Bram Stoker	Irish	Horror
194	The Castle of Otranto	1764	Horace Walpole	English	Horror
195	The Picture of Dorian Gray	1891	Oscar Wilde	Irish	Horror
196	Lady Audley's Secret	1862	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	English	Crime
197	The Naked Lunch	1959	William Burroughs	American	Crime
198	The Big Sleep	1939	Raymond Chandler	American	Crime
199	And Then There Were None	1939	Agatha Christie	English	Crime
200	The Moonstone	1868	Wilkie Collins	English	Crime
201	The Woman in White	1859–60	Wilkie Collins	English	Crime
202	Moll Flanders	1722	Daniel Defoe	English	Crime
203	Crime and Punishment	1865–66	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Russian	Crime
204	The Name of the Rose	1980	Umberto Eco	Italian	Crime
205	L.A. Quartet	1987–92	James Ellroy	American	Crime
206	That Awful Mess on Via Merulana	1957	Carlo Emilio Gadda	Italian	Crime
207	Caleb Williams	1794	William Godwin	English	Crime
208	The Scarlet Letter	1850	Nathaniel Hawthorne	American	Crime
209	Broken April	1982	Ismail Kadare	Albanian	Crime
210	The Trial	1925	Franz Kafka	Czech	Crime
211	Darkness at Noon	1940	Arthur Koestler	Hungarian	Crime
212	Dirty Snow	1948	Georges Simenon	Belgian	Crime
213	Illywhacker	1985	Peter Carey	Australian	Comedy
214	The Pickwick Papers	1837	Charles Dickens	English	Comedy
215	That Bringas Woman	1884	Benito Pérez Galdós	Spanish	Comedy
216	The Polyglots	1925	William Gerhardie	English	Comedy
217	Cold Comfort Farm	1932	Stella Gibbons	English	Comedy
218	Dead Souls (pockets #39)	1842	Nikolay Gogol	Russian	Comedy
219	Our Man in Havana	1958	Graham Greene	English	Comedy
220	At Swim-Two-Birds	1939	Flann O'Brien	Irish	Comedy
221	Nightmare Abbey	1818	Thomas Love Peacock	English	Comedy
222	Exercises in Style	1947	Raymond Queneau	French	Comedy
223	Portnoy's Complaint	1969	Philip Roth	American	Comedy
224	The Expedition of Humphry Clinker	1771	Tobias Smollett	English	Comedy
225	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	1760	Laurence Sterne	Irish	Comedy
226	Zeno's Conscience	1923	Italo Svevo	Italian	Comedy
227	Candide	1759	Voltaire	French	Comedy
228	A Handful of Dust	1934	Evelyn Waugh	English	Comedy
229	Psmith in the City	1910	P.G. Wodehouse	English	Comedy

The 100 greatest novels of all time

McCrum, Robert (12 October 2003). "The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list". The Observer. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

No.	Title	Author
1	Don Quixote	Miguel De Cervantes
2	Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan
3	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
4	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift
5	Tom Jones	Henry Fielding
6	Clarissa	Samuel Richardson
7	Tristram Shandy	Laurence Sterne
8	Dangerous Liaisons	Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
9	Emma	Jane Austen
10	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
11	Nightmare Abbey	Thomas Love Peacock
12	The Black Sheep	Honoré De Balzac
13	The Charterhouse of Parma	Stendhal
14	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas
15	Sybil	Benjamin Disraeli
16	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
17	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë
18	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
19	Vanity Fair	William Makepeace Thackeray
20	The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
21	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville
22	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert
23	The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins
24	Alice's Adventures In Wonderland	Lewis Carroll
25	Little Women	Louisa M. Alcott
26	The Way We Live Now	Anthony Trollope
27	Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy
28	Daniel Deronda	George Eliot
29	The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky
30	The Portrait of a Lady	Henry James
31	Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
32	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
33	Three Men in a Boat	Jerome K. Jerome
34	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
35	The Diary of a Nobody	George Grossmith
36	Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy
37	The Riddle of the Sands	Erskine Childers
38	The Call of the Wild	Jack London
39	Nostromo	Joseph Conrad
40	The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame
41	In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust
42	The Rainbow	D. H. Lawrence
43	The Good Soldier	Ford Madox Ford
44	The Thirty-Nine Steps	John Buchan
45	Ulysses	James Joyce
46	Mrs Dalloway	Virginia Woolf
47	A Passage to India	EM Forster
48	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
49	The Trial	Franz Kafka
50	Men Without Women	Ernest Hemingway
51	Journey to the End of the Night	Louis-Ferdinand Celine
52	As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner
53	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
54	Scoop	Evelyn Waugh
55	USA	John Dos Passos
56	The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler
57	The Pursuit Of Love	Nancy Mitford
58	The Plague	Albert Camus
59	Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell
60	Malone Dies	Samuel Beckett
61	Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger
62	Wise Blood	Flannery O'Connor
63	Charlotte's Web	EB White
64	The Lord Of The Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien
65	Lucky Jim	Kingsley Amis
66	Lord of the Flies	William Golding
67	The Quiet American	Graham Greene
68	On the Road	Jack Kerouac
69	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
70	The Tin Drum	Günter Grass
71	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
72	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark
73	To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee
74	Catch-22	Joseph Heller
75	Herzog	Saul Bellow
76	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez
77	Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont	Elizabeth Taylor
78	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	John Le Carré
79	Song of Solomon	Toni Morrison
80	The Bottle Factory Outing	Beryl Bainbridge
81	The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer
82	If on a Winter's Night a Traveller	Italo Calvino
83	A Bend in the River	VS Naipaul
84	Waiting for the Barbarians	JM Coetzee
85	Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson
86	Lanark	Alasdair Gray
87	The New York Trilogy	Paul Auster
88	The BFG	Roald Dahl
89	The Periodic Table	Primo Levi
90	Money	Martin Amis
91	An Artist of the Floating World	Kazuo Ishiguro
92	Oscar And Lucinda	Peter Carey
93	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting	Milan Kundera
94	Haroun and the Sea of Stories	Salman Rushdie
95	LA Confidential	James Ellroy
96	Wise Children	Angela Carter
97	Atonement	Ian McEwan
98	Northern Lights	Philip Pullman
99	American Pastoral	Philip Roth
100	Austerlitz	W. G. Sebald