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5.3.18

The Telegraph 100 Essential Books

Book awards: The Telegraph's 100 novels everyone should read

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Works (100)

TitlesOrder
Middlemarch by George Eliot1
Moby Dick by Herman Melville2
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy3
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James4
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad5
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust6
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë7
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee8
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf9
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra10
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen11
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe12
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens13
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë14
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse15
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene16
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy17
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh18
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells19
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne20
1984 by George Orwell21
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster22
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert23
Ulysses by James Joyce24
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins25
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell26
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley27
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding28
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec29
Atonement by Ian McEwan30
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky31
A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter by Anthony Powell32
Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson33
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler34
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis35
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo36
The Warden by Anthony Trollope37
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald38
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe39
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton40
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle41
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain42
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy by John Updike43
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre44
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet45
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark46
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera47
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin48
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck49
Beloved by Toni Morrison50
Underworld by Don DeLillo51
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger52
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood53
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov54
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald55
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass56
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse57
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño58
London Fields by Martin Amis59
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez60
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk61
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift62
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson63
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz64
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak65
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky66
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul67
Crash by J.G. Ballard68
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino69
Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa70
Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin71
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler72
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque73
Waiting for Mahatma by R. K. Narayan74
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee75
The Trial by Franz Kafka76
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller77
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll78
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys79
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey80
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco81
The Stranger by Albert Camus82
Germinal by Émile Zola83
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas84
The Red and the Black by Stendhal85
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac86
On the Road by Jack Kerouac87
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin88
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing89
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch90
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu91
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons92
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré93
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie94
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe95
The Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi96
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams97
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore98
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee99
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien100

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