The Guardian list
106 books: 75 unread, 0 in progress, 31 completed
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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 | The Life and Opinions of 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 | Honore 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 Bronte |
| 18 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| 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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| 32 | 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 | E.M. 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 | U.S.A. - The 42nd Parallel - 1919 - The Big Money | John Dos Passos |
| 56 | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler |
| 57 | The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford |
| 58 | The Plague | Albert Camus |
| 59 | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 60 | Malone Dies | Samuel Beckett |
| 61 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| 62 | Wise Blood | Flannery O'Connor |
| 63 | Charlotte's Web | E.B. White |
| 64 | The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring - The Two Towers - The Return of the King | 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 | Gunter 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 Garcia Marquez |
| 77 | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | Elizabeth Taylor |
| 78 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | John Le Carre |
| 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 | V.S. Naipaul |
| 84 | Waiting for the Barbarians | J.M. Coetzee |
| 85 | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson |
| 86 | Lanark | Alasdair Gray |
| 87 | The New York Trilogy - City of Glass - Ghosts - The Locked Room | 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 |