100 Greatest Books + Authors
Lanark
Alasdair Gray
The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel, The Fall, The Plague
Albert Camus
Eyeless in Gaza, Brave New World
Aldus Huxley
The 3 Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Nights at the Circus, Wise Children
Angela Carter
The Last Chronicle of Barset, Barchester Towers, The Warden, The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
Sybil
Benjamin Disraeli
The Bottle Factory Outing
Beryl Bainbridge
Great Expectations, Bleak House, The Pickwick Papers, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence
Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Charlotte's Web
EB White
Howards End, Aspects of the Novel, A Room with a View, A Passage to India
EM Forster
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Moveable Feast, A Farewell to Arms, In Our Time, Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway
The Riddle of the Sands
Eskrine Childers
Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
The Habit of Being, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear it Away, Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
Parade's End, The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Possessed, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Middlemarch, The Mill of the Floss, Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda
George Elliot
The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith
Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris, 1984
George Orwell
Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American
Graham Greene
The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass
A Sentimental Education, Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
The Ambassadors, Wings of the Dove, The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
Bartleby the Scrivener, Billy Budd, Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Black Sheep
Honore de Balzac
The Cement Garden, Atonement
Ian McEwan
Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians
JM Coetzee
On The Road
Jack Kerouac
White Fang, The Call of the Wild
Jack London
LA Confidential
James Ellroy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Ulysses
James Joyce
Persuasion, Emma
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K Jerome
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
1919, The 42nd Parallel, The Big Money, Manhattan Transfer, USA
John Dos Passos
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Le Carre
A Modest Proposal and other Satirical Works, Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Remains of the Day, An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The Old Devils, Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
Tristam Shandy
Laurence Sterne
War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Through the Looking Glass, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
Gilead, Home, Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Life on the Mississippi, Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
London Fields, Experience, Money
Martin Amis
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Love in a Cold Climate, The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford
House of the Seven Gables, Twice Told Tales, The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Armies of the Night, The Fire on the Moon, The Naked Dead, The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Invention of Solitude, The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
True History of the Kelly Gang, Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass, Northern Lights
Phillip Pullman
Portnoy's Complaint, The Human Stain, American Pastoral
Phillip Roth
Dangerous Liaison
Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
If this is a Man, The Drowned and the Saved, If Not Now, When?, The Periodic Table
Primo Levi
The Long Goodbye, The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG
Roald Dahl
Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
Waiting for Godot, Molloy, The Unnamable, Murphy, Malone Dies
Samuel Beckett
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson
Henderson the Rain King, The Adventures of Augie March, Humboldt's Gift, Herzog
Saul Bellow
The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
Tess of the Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock
Beloved, Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
A House of Mr. Biswas, In a Free State, A Bend in the River
VS Naipaul
A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Speak Memory, Pale Fire, Ada or Ardor, Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
The Moonstone, The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
The Sound and the Fury, Absalom! Absalom!, Light In August, As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Rites of Passage, Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray