rank title author vote_count weighted_score in_top_100 voters 1 Middlemarch George Eliot 56 446 True Adam Roberts; Ahdaf Soueif; Aida Edemariam; Alex Clark; Alex Needham; Andrew Solomon; Ben Markovits; Blake Morrison; Charlotte Higgins; Charlotte Mendelson; Charlotte Northedge; Chloe Aridjis; Chris Power; Claire Armitstead; Clare Clark; Dinah Birch; Eimear McBride; Elif Batuman; Elizabeth Day; Esi Edugyan; Freya Johnston; Geoff Dyer; Houman Barekat; Ian McEwan; James Meek; Jem Calder; Jennifer Egan; John Lanchester; John Mullan; Justine Jordan; Katherine Rundell; Kathryn Hughes; Kieran Goddard; Lara Feigel; Lauren Elkin; Lily King; Lisa Allardice; Lorrie Moore; Marcel Theroux; Maya Jasanoff; Melissa Broder; Merve Emre; Michael Donkor; Richard Osman; Rishi Dastidar; Sam Leith; Sandra Newman; Sarah Bakewell; Sarah Crown; Sarah Moss; Siri Hustvedt; Stuart Kelly; Tessa Hadley; Tom Crewe; Xan Brooks; Yiyun Li 2 Beloved Toni Morrison 43 283 True Adam Roberts; Aida Edemariam; Ali Smith; Anne Enright; Arifa Akbar; Bernardine Evaristo; Candice Carty Williams; Charlotte Northedge; Claire Messud; Daisy Johnson; Damian Barr; Douglas Stuart; Ella Creamer; Esi Edugyan; Fiona Sturges; Imogen Russell Williams; Jacqueline Rose; Jan Carson; Jude Cook; Julie Myerson; Justine Jordan; Katharine Viner; Katherine Rundell; Kit de Waal; Lauren Elkin; Liese Spencer; Lily King; Lisa Allardice; Lorrie Moore; Merve Emre; Nadifa Mohamed; Natasha Walter; Rebecca Liu; Roxane Gay; Salman Rushdie; Sara Collins; Siri Hustvedt; Sophie Mackintosh; Susanna Rustin; Tahmima Anam; Uzma Aslam Khan; Yael van der Wouden; Yagnishsing Dawoor 3 Ulysses James Joyce 36 276 True Alberto Manguel; Alex Clark; Alexandra Harris; Anne Enright; Ben Okri; Blake Morrison; Charlotte Higgins; Chris Power; Claire Armitstead; Colm Tóibín; Colum McCann; Eimear McBride; Elif Shafak; Guy Gunaratne; Houman Barekat; Ian McEwan; Jacqueline Rose; James Meek; Jeet Thayil; John Lanchester; John Mullan; Jon Day; Justine Jordan; Kevin Power; Kieran Goddard; Maggie O’Farrell; Melissa Harrison; Merve Emre; Salman Rushdie; Sinéad Gleeson; Siri Hustvedt; Stephen King; Stuart Kelly; Valeria Luiselli; William Boyd; Yan Lianke 4 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 31 195 True Alex Clark; Alexandra Harris; Andrew Solomon; Ben Markovits; Catherine Taylor; Charlotte Northedge; Chris Power; Colm Tóibín; David Nicholls; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Eimear McBride; Ella Creamer; Fiona Sampson; Hermione Lee; Jack Edwards; Jennifer Egan; Jo Hamya; Jon Day; Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Julie Myerson; Kieran Goddard; Lara Feigel; Lily King; Lisa Allardice; Merve Emre; Natasha Walter; Saba Sams; Shahidha Bari; Sinéad Gleeson; Siri Hustvedt; Yiyun Li 5 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 27 201 True Adam Thirlwell; Alex Clark; Andrew Solomon; Anne Enright; Ben Okri; Charlotte Higgins; Chloe Aridjis; Chris Power; Claire Messud; Colm Tóibín; Daniel Kehlmann; Eimear McBride; Elif Batuman; Fiona Sampson; Ian Patterson; Jacqueline Rose; John Lanchester; John Mullan; Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Lily King; Olivia Laing; Pratinav Anil; Salman Rushdie; Sarah Bakewell; Steven Poole; William Boyd; Yan Lianke 6 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 26 209 True Ahdaf Soueif; Amanda Craig; Arifa Akbar; Claire Messud; Clare Clark; Daniel Kehlmann; Diana Evans; Dinah Birch; Eimear McBride; Elif Batuman; Freya Johnston; Ian McEwan; Jo Hamya; John Mullan; Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Katharine Viner; Lara Feigel; Maya Jaggi; Maya Jasanoff; Melissa Harrison; Rebecca Liu; Rishi Dastidar; Sara Collins; Sarah Waters; Tahmima Anam; Tom Crewe 8 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 21 121 True Blake Morrison; Claire Armitstead; Dinah Birch; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Elif Batuman; Fiona Sturges; Imogen Russell Williams; Katharine Viner; Kathryn Hughes; Kit de Waal; Lara Feigel; Lisa Tuttle; Maggie O’Farrell; Matt Haig; Rachel Kushner; Sarah Churchwell; Sarah Moss; Sophie Mackintosh; Susanna Rustin; Tahmima Anam; Tessa Hadley 7 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 20 162 True Adam Thirlwell; Andrew Solomon; Ben Okri; Charlotte Mendelson; Chigozie Obioma; Chris Power; Christobel Kent; Claire Armitstead; Daniel Kehlmann; Geoff Dyer; Jem Calder; John Lanchester; Lara Feigel; Maaza Mengiste; Marcel Theroux; Natasha Walter; Sarah Bakewell; Tessa Hadley; Yan Lianke; Yiyun Li 9 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 20 119 True Ahdaf Soueif; Ben Okri; Elizabeth Day; Esi Edugyan; Ian McEwan; Jennifer Egan; John Mullan; Kathryn Hughes; Lily King; Lucy Knight; Marcel Theroux; Meg Rosoff; Michael Chabon; Parinoush Saniee; Sara Collins; Sarah Churchwell; Siri Hustvedt; Steven Poole; Yael van der Wouden; Yan Lianke 11 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 20 116 True Aida Edemariam; Amanda Craig; Amit Chaudhuri; Blake Morrison; Charlotte Northedge; Christobel Kent; Clare Clark; David Nicholls; Derek Owusu; Emma Loffhagen; Julie Myerson; Lisa Tuttle; Lucy Knight; Marcel Theroux; RF Kuang; Rachel Kushner; Sam Leith; Sarah Churchwell; Tahmima Anam; Xan Brooks 10 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 19 137 True Anne Enright; Claire Messud; Clare Clark; Elif Shafak; Freya Johnston; Houman Barekat; Ian McEwan; John Mullan; Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Kevin Power; Kit de Waal; Laura Wilson; Marcel Theroux; Melissa Broder; Michael Donkor; Rebecca Liu; Stephen King; Tessa Hadley; Yan Lianke 12 Bleak House Charles Dickens 19 132 True Adam Roberts; Charlotte Higgins; Charlotte Mendelson; David Nicholls; Ian Rankin; Jon Day; Jude Cook; Kathryn Hughes; Lara Feigel; Lisa Tuttle; Mark Haddon; Maya Jasanoff; Naoise Dolan; Olivia Laing; PD Smith; Sarah Waters; Siri Hustvedt; Susanna Rustin; Xan Brooks 16 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 19 95 True Alberto Manguel; Arifa Akbar; Beejay Silcox; Blake Morrison; Candice Carty Williams; Catherine Taylor; Colum McCann; Dorian Lynskey; Eimear McBride; Esi Edugyan; Jack Edwards; Laura Wilson; Marcel Theroux; Meg Rosoff; Parinoush Saniee; Sara Collins; Sarah Bakewell; Sian Cain; Valeria Luiselli 13 Emma Jane Austen 18 124 True Aida Edemariam; Ali Smith; Blake Morrison; Charlotte Higgins; Claire Armitstead; Clare Clark; Emma Loffhagen; Ian Patterson; Jack Edwards; John Mullan; Katherine Rundell; Laura Wilson; Liese Spencer; Lorrie Moore; Naoise Dolan; Sarah Churchwell; Susanna Rustin; William Boyd 14 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 18 117 True Aida Edemariam; Claire Messud; Clare Clark; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Houman Barekat; John Self; Kevin Power; Lauren Elkin; Liese Spencer; Lily King; Lisa Allardice; Maya Jasanoff; Melissa Broder; Michael Donkor; Samantha Harvey; Sandra Newman; Sarah Moss; Susanna Rustin 15 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 18 116 True Alberto Manguel; Anne Enright; Ben Okri; Chloe Aridjis; Chris Power; Claire Armitstead; Eimear McBride; John Lanchester; Michael Chabon; Rachel Kushner; Sam Leith; Sarah Churchwell; Siri Hustvedt; Stephen King; Steven Poole; Stuart Kelly; Tanjll Rashid; Yiyun Li 17 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 18 104 True Ahdaf Soueif; Alberto Manguel; Ben Okri; Claire Armitstead; Colm Tóibín; Daisy Johnson; David Diop; Elif Shafak; Jeet Thayil; Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Michael Donkor; Parinoush Saniee; RF Kuang; Richard Osman; Salman Rushdie; Sarah Waters; Valeria Luiselli; Yagnishsing Dawoor 18 Persuasion Jane Austen 17 105 True Amanda Craig; Charlotte Northedge; David Nicholls; Dinah Birch; Freya Johnston; Jem Calder; Justine Jordan; Lily King; Lisa Allardice; Lisa Tuttle; Olivia Laing; Samantha Ellis; Sarah Moss; Shahidha Bari; Tahmima Anam; Tessa Hadley; Yiyun Li 19 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne 17 102 True Adam Thirlwell; Alexandra Harris; Blake Morrison; Charlotte Higgins; Colum McCann; Ian Patterson; Jennifer Egan; John Mullan; Liese Spencer; Nina Stibbe; Rishi Dastidar; Sam Leith; Sandra Newman; Sarah Bakewell; Stuart Kelly; Sukhdev Sandhu; William Boyd 21 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 16 84 True Andrew Solomon; Ben Markovits; Charlotte Higgins; David Nicholls; Elif Batuman; Geoff Dyer; Hermione Lee; Jem Calder; Kevin Power; Lara Feigel; Lisa Allardice; Merve Emre; Pratinav Anil; Sam Leith; Sarah Churchwell; Susanna Rustin 20 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 15 114 True Arifa Akbar; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Eimear McBride; Jan Carson; Joanne Harris; John Boyne; Julie Myerson; Kate Mosse; Matt Haig; Nina Allan; Samantha Ellis; Sarah Churchwell; Shahidha Bari; Siri Hustvedt; William Boyd 22 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 14 86 True Adam Roberts; Alain Mabanckou; Ben Markovits; Claire Armitstead; Claire Messud; Derek Owusu; Diana Evans; Emma Loffhagen; Mazen Maarouf; Michael Donkor; Natasha Walter; Sarah Waters; Susanna Rustin; Tahmima Anam 23 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 13 79 True Dinah Birch; Jan Carson; Jeet Thayil; Justine Jordan; Kathryn Hughes; Rishi Dastidar; Sara Collins; Sarah Waters; Shahidha Bari; Sinéad Gleeson; Tahmima Anam; Tanjll Rashid; Yagnishsing Dawoor 24 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 13 66 True Clare Clark; Dorian Lynskey; Joe Dunthorne; John Self; Jon Day; Julie Myerson; Kit de Waal; Laura Wilson; Lorrie Moore; RF Kuang; Sara Collins; Sian Cain; Yagnishsing Dawoor 25 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 13 59 True Diana Evans; Douglas Stuart; Elizabeth Day; Jo Hamya; Justine Jordan; Kevin Power; Lucas Rijneveld; Melissa Broder; Merve Emre; Michael Donkor; Rachel Kushner; Saba Sams; Sam Leith 26 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 11 84 True Alberto Manguel; Ben Okri; Chloe Aridjis; Claire Armitstead; Elif Batuman; Elif Shafak; Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Matt Haig; Mazen Maarouf; Salman Rushdie; Yan Lianke 27 The Trial Franz Kafka 11 70 True Adam Thirlwell; Alain Mabanckou; Colm Tóibín; David Diop; Elif Batuman; PD Smith; Parinoush Saniee; Philippe Sands; Salman Rushdie; Tanjll Rashid; William Boyd 28 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky 10 72 True Ben Okri; Chloe Aridjis; Chris Power; Douglas Stuart; Guy Gunaratne; Katherine Rundell; Kieran Goddard; RF Kuang; Steven Poole; Yan Lianke 29 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 10 68 True Alex Needham; Elif Batuman; Houman Barekat; Jeet Thayil; Nina Allan; RF Kuang; Sarah Crown; Steven Poole; William Boyd; Xan Brooks 30 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 10 61 True Alberto Manguel; Arifa Akbar; Beejay Silcox; Chloe Aridjis; Fiona Sampson; Kate Mosse; Katherine Rundell; Lucas Rijneveld; Sian Cain; Steven Poole 31 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 10 57 True Ali Smith; Damian Barr; David Nicholls; Fiona Sturges; Ian Rankin; John Self; Liese Spencer; Lisa Allardice; Saba Sams; Sinéad Gleeson 32 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 10 56 True Charlotte Northedge; Daisy Johnson; Diana Evans; Emma Loffhagen; Jack Edwards; Nadifa Mohamed; Nina Stibbe; Saba Sams; Uzma Aslam Khan; Yagnishsing Dawoor 33 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 10 51 True Ali Smith; Charlotte Mendelson; Dinah Birch; Freya Johnston; John Boyne; Katharine Viner; Maggie O’Farrell; Marcel Theroux; Nina Stibbe; Sarah Churchwell 34 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 10 44 True Clare Clark; Fiona Sturges; Justine Jordan; Katherine Rundell; Maaza Mengiste; Meg Rosoff; RF Kuang; Samantha Ellis; Sandra Newman; Sarah Moss 35 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 9 52 True Ahdaf Soueif; Amanda Craig; Elizabeth Day; Geoff Dyer; John Mullan; Kit de Waal; Laura Wilson; Liese Spencer; Salman Rushdie 36 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 9 50 True Anne Enright; Arifa Akbar; Beejay Silcox; Charlotte Northedge; Fiona Sturges; Lisa Allardice; Lisa Tuttle; Sara Collins; Sian Cain 37 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 9 45 True Alex Clark; Ben Okri; Derek Owusu; Jennifer Egan; Merve Emre; Rachel Kushner; Sandra Newman; Sara Collins; Xan Brooks 38 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 9 43 True Colm Tóibín; Dorian Lynskey; Geoff Dyer; Jude Cook; Melissa Broder; Roxane Gay; Salman Rushdie; Sandra Newman; Sian Cain 39 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 8 34 True Bernardine Evaristo; Damian Barr; Ella Creamer; Emma Loffhagen; Jacqueline Rose; Lara Feigel; Nikesh Shukla; Sinéad Gleeson 40 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 7 44 True Colum McCann; Diana Evans; Dinah Birch; Guy Gunaratne; Ian Rankin; Maaza Mengiste; Naoise Dolan 41 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 7 42 True Chloe Aridjis; Derek Owusu; Dorian Lynskey; Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Kevin Power; Maya Jasanoff; Sam Leith 42 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 7 37 True Chloe Aridjis; Daniel Kehlmann; Eimear McBride; Ian McEwan; James Meek; Pratinav Anil; Sarah Bakewell 43 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 7 35 True David Nicholls; Joe Dunthorne; Kieran Goddard; Liese Spencer; Merve Emre; Sarah Waters; Yiyun Li 44 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin 7 32 True Benjamin Myers; Charlotte Mendelson; Damian Barr; Guy Gunaratne; Naoise Dolan; Richard Osman; Sophie Mackintosh 45 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 7 30 True Alex Clark; Alex Needham; Lara Feigel; Lisa Tuttle; Natasha Walter; Rebecca Liu; Saba Sams 46 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 6 39 True Ahdaf Soueif; Christobel Kent; David Shariatmadari; John Lanchester; Olivia Laing; Tanjll Rashid 47 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 6 35 True Amanda Craig; Charlotte Higgins; Christobel Kent; Elizabeth Day; Jude Cook; Rishi Dastidar 48 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 6 34 True Alberto Manguel; Candice Carty Williams; Chloe Aridjis; Elif Shafak; Ian McEwan; Sayaka Murata 49 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 6 31 True Amanda Craig; Claire Messud; Clare Clark; Florence Knapp; Nadifa Mohamed; Roxane Gay 50 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 6 25 True Anne Enright; Jack Edwards; Jo Hamya; Nadifa Mohamed; Saba Sams; Sara Collins 51 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante 6 22 True Charlotte Northedge; Douglas Stuart; Ella Creamer; Natasha Walter; Samantha Ellis; Susanna Rustin 53 The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard 6 15 True Charlotte Mendelson; David Nicholls; Esi Edugyan; Geoff Dyer; Lily King; Yiyun Li 52 The Golden Bowl Henry James 5 38 True Catherine Taylor; Colm Tóibín; Ian Patterson; Jacqueline Rose; Michael Chabon 54 Orlando Virginia Woolf 5 34 True Adam Thirlwell; Elif Shafak; Katharine Viner; Kathryn Hughes; Michael Chabon 55 The Waves Virginia Woolf 5 33 True Alexandra Harris; Chigozie Obioma; Guy Gunaratne; Jacqueline Rose; Jude Cook 56 Mansfield Park Jane Austen 5 31 True Alex Needham; Ben Markovits; James Meek; Jude Cook; Tom Crewe 57 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 5 29 True Kevin Power; Lily King; Melissa Harrison; Merve Emre; Michael Donkor 58 Disgrace JM Coetzee 5 27 True Douglas Stuart; James Meek; Kieran Goddard; Samantha Harvey; Valeria Luiselli 59 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 5 26 True Beejay Silcox; Charlotte Northedge; Lucy Knight; M. John Harrison; Sayaka Murata 60 Howards End EM Forster 5 24 True Andrew Solomon; David Nicholls; Elizabeth Day; John Boyne; Sarah Bakewell 61 The Rings of Saturn WG Sebald 5 23 True Claire Messud; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Guy Gunaratne; Joe Dunthorne; Olivia Laing 62 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 5 20 True Charlotte Northedge; Diana Evans; Emma Loffhagen; Katharine Viner; Yagnishsing Dawoor 63 White Teeth Zadie Smith 5 20 True Derek Owusu; Emma Loffhagen; Jeet Thayil; Yagnishsing Dawoor; Yiyun Li 64 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 5 18 True Alexandra Harris; Anne Enright; Jack Edwards; Lucy Knight; Steven Poole 66 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 5 12 True Elif Shafak; Marcel Theroux; Parinoush Saniee; Philippe Sands; Salman Rushdie 65 The Color Purple Alice Walker 4 33 True Claire Armitstead; Damian Barr; Emma Loffhagen; Maggie O’Farrell 67 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 4 28 True Adam Thirlwell; Ian Patterson; PD Smith; Sukhdev Sandhu 69 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 4 24 True Eimear McBride; Ian Rankin; Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Liese Spencer 70 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 4 24 True Chris Power; Douglas Stuart; Kieran Goddard; Sukhdev Sandhu 68 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 4 24 True Chigozie Obioma; Esi Edugyan; Joe Dunthorne; Xan Brooks 71 Kindred Octavia E Butler 4 22 True Bernardine Evaristo; Imogen Russell Williams; Lisa Tuttle; Yael van der Wouden 72 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 4 22 True Ian McEwan; Justine Jordan; Shahidha Bari; William Boyd 74 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga 4 21 True Catherine Taylor; Jon Day; Maaza Mengiste; Natasha Walter 73 Austerlitz WG Sebald 4 21 True Alex Needham; Kieran Goddard; Nina Allan; Sarah Waters 100 My Ántonia Willa Cather 4 20 True Alexandra Harris; Hermione Lee; Tahmima Anam; Xan Brooks 76 Dracula Bram Stoker 4 20 True Damian Barr; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Jan Carson; Joshua Cohen 77 The Rainbow DH Lawrence 4 20 True Catherine Taylor; Ella Creamer; Lara Feigel; Tessa Hadley 75 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 4 20 True Jennifer Egan; Kate Mosse; Maya Jaggi; Michael Donkor 79 Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 4 18 True Derek Owusu; Maaza Mengiste; Nina Stibbe; Shahidha Bari 80 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 4 18 True Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Elif Shafak; Jan Carson; Lisa Allardice 78 A House for Mr Biswas VS Naipaul 4 18 True Aida Edemariam; Amit Chaudhuri; Maya Jasanoff; Sukhdev Sandhu 82 The End of the Affair Graham Greene 4 17 True Jan Carson; Kit de Waal; Sam Leith; Sophie Mackintosh 83 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 4 17 True Ahdaf Soueif; Christobel Kent; Steven Poole; Yiyun Li 81 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 4 17 True Colm Tóibín; Maya Jasanoff; Naoise Dolan; RF Kuang 84 The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith 4 16 True Joe Dunthorne; Nina Allan; Olivia Laing; Richard Osman 86 The Turn of the Screw Henry James 4 16 True Julie Myerson; Kate Mosse; Kathryn Hughes; Lisa Tuttle 85 The Vegetarian Han Kang 4 16 True Emma Loffhagen; Sayaka Murata; Sophie Mackintosh; Tahmima Anam 87 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 4 15 True Alex Needham; Dorian Lynskey; Douglas Stuart; Philippe Sands 88 Ragtime EL Doctorow 4 13 True Colum McCann; Daniel Kehlmann; Dorian Lynskey; Joe Dunthorne 89 The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K Le Guin 4 10 True Amanda Craig; Beejay Silcox; John Lanchester; Michael Chabon 90 Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 3 26 True Alexandra Harris; M. John Harrison; Mark Haddon 91 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman 3 23 True Alex Needham; Philippe Sands; Sarah Bakewell 92 Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert 3 22 True Christobel Kent; Lisa Tuttle; Maya Jasanoff 93 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 3 21 True James Meek; John Self; Matt Haig 95 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 3 21 True Alexandra Harris; David Shariatmadari; Jude Cook 94 The Known World Edward P Jones 3 21 True Maaza Mengiste; Roxane Gay; Uzma Aslam Khan 96 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 3 20 True Alain Mabanckou; Valeria Luiselli; Yan Lianke 97 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 3 19 True Justine Jordan; Meg Rosoff; Sian Cain 98 The Road Cormac McCarthy 3 19 True Kit de Waal; Sarah Waters; Valeria Luiselli A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 3 19 False Amit Chaudhuri; Chloe Aridjis; Maya Jaggi 99 The Go-Between LP Hartley 3 19 True Aida Edemariam; Clare Clark; David Shariatmadari Light in August William Faulkner 3 18 False Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Lorrie Moore; Stephen King To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 3 18 False Fiona Sturges; Florence Knapp; Sarah Crown The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien 3 18 False Adam Roberts; Melissa Harrison; Michael Chabon Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 3 18 False Anne Enright; Katharine Viner; Michael Chabon The Years Annie Ernaux 3 18 False Guy Gunaratne; Lauren Elkin; Natasha Walter The Mirror and the Light Hilary Mantel 3 16 False Alexandra Harris; Meg Rosoff; Sian Cain The Summer Book Tove Jansson 3 16 False Ali Smith; Lucy Knight; Sarah Moss Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 3 16 False Benjamin Myers; Blake Morrison; Olivia Laing The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 3 16 False Alain Mabanckou; Elif Shafak; RF Kuang The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald 3 15 False Claire Messud; Jon Day; Steven Poole A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 3 15 False Ian Rankin; John Lanchester; Pratinav Anil Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk 3 15 False Katharine Viner; Lucas Rijneveld; Saba Sams Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 3 15 False Dinah Birch; James Meek; Jennifer Egan A Month in the Country J. L. Carr 3 14 False Benjamin Myers; Hermione Lee; Richard Osman How to Be Both Ali Smith 3 14 False Alexandra Harris; Lucy Knight; Natalie Haynes Money Martin Amis 3 14 False Ian Rankin; Kevin Power; Nina Stibbe American Pastoral Philip Roth 3 12 False Arifa Akbar; Dorian Lynskey; Sarah Crown Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 3 11 False Dinah Birch; Sarah Churchwell; Stephen King The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 3 11 False Colum McCann; Laura Wilson; Melissa Harrison The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 3 11 False Andrew Solomon; Christobel Kent; Jennifer Egan Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 3 11 False Andrew Solomon; Charlotte Mendelson; Katharine Viner The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 3 10 False Alberto Manguel; Kate Mosse; Lisa Tuttle Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 3 10 False Jem Calder; Rebecca Liu; Sandra Newman Villette Charlotte Brontë 3 10 False Catherine Taylor; Charlotte Higgins; Charlotte Mendelson Herzog Saul Bellow 3 9 False Jude Cook; Kevin Power; Kieran Goddard Septology Jon Fosse 3 7 False Chris Power; Mark Haddon; Yagnishsing Dawoor Underworld Don DeLillo 3 6 False Claire Messud; Jennifer Egan; Rachel Kushner The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 3 6 False Ahdaf Soueif; Alain Mabanckou; Mazen Maarouf The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen 3 3 False Ian Patterson; James Meek; Tessa Hadley Nw Zadie Smith 2 19 False Nikesh Shukla; Roxane Gay The Enigma of Arrival VS Naipaul 2 18 False Amit Chaudhuri; Tanjll Rashid Hunger Knut Hamsun 2 18 False Benjamin Myers; Chigozie Obioma Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin 2 18 False PD Smith; Sukhdev Sandhu Palm-Wine Drinkard Amos Tutuola 2 17 False Alain Mabanckou; Sandra Newman Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 2 17 False Geoff Dyer; Richard Osman Cannery Row John Steinbeck 2 17 False Nina Stibbe; Xan Brooks The Book of Daniel E. L. Doctorow 2 17 False Maaza Mengiste; Sarah Crown Maurice E. M. Forster 2 16 False Benjamin Myers; Yael van der Wouden Nights at the Circus Angela Carter 2 16 False Joanne Harris; Samantha Ellis A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2 15 False Florence Knapp; Jack Edwards Lolly Willowes, Or, the Loving Huntsman Sylvia Townsend Warner 2 15 False Jo Hamya; Sinéad Gleeson The Dirty Dust Máirtín Ó Cadhain 2 15 False Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Naoise Dolan The Tin Drum Günter Grass 2 14 False Maya Jaggi; Salman Rushdie Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 2 14 False Lucas Rijneveld; Sam Leith Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery 2 14 False Florence Knapp; Shahidha Bari The Plague Albert Camus 2 14 False Esi Edugyan; Ian McEwan The Makioka Sisters Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 2 14 False Catherine Taylor; Elif Batuman Praiseworthy Alexis Wright 2 14 False Beejay Silcox; Sian Cain The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 2 14 False Ben Markovits; Siri Hustvedt Pnin Vladimir Nabokov 2 14 False Adam Roberts; Ben Markovits The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa 2 14 False Natalie Haynes; Sayaka Murata Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Lorrie Moore 2 14 False Saba Sams; Sinéad Gleeson If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 2 13 False Alex Clark; Sam Leith A Passage to India E. M. Forster 2 13 False Michael Donkor; Shahidha Bari Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin 2 13 False Elif Batuman; Nadifa Mohamed As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 2 13 False Guy Gunaratne; Rachel Kushner We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 2 13 False Jan Carson; Joanne Harris The Bone People Keri Hulme 2 13 False Bernardine Evaristo; Daisy Johnson Death in Venice Thomas Mann 2 13 False Arifa Akbar; Melissa Broder Sula Toni Morrison 2 13 False David Nicholls; Jack Edwards A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2 13 False David Shariatmadari; Natalie Haynes The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald 2 12 False Hermione Lee; John Self Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 2 12 False Amanda Craig; Florence Knapp 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2 12 False Chris Power; Jeet Thayil Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 2 12 False Michael Chabon; Pratinav Anil Light Years James Salter 2 12 False Melissa Harrison; Sophie Mackintosh The Outsider Albert Camus 2 12 False Colm Tóibín; Joanne Harris The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 2 12 False Ian Rankin; PD Smith Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell 2 12 False Ben Markovits; Kathryn Hughes Loitering With Intent Muriel Spark 2 12 False Ali Smith; Stuart Kelly The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek 2 12 False Arifa Akbar; Sophie Mackintosh The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden 2 12 False Florence Knapp; Mark Haddon The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 2 12 False Saba Sams; Stephen King Bring up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2 11 False Meg Rosoff; Melissa Harrison A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K Le Guin 2 11 False Imogen Russell Williams; Xan Brooks The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi 2 11 False Jude Cook; Nikesh Shukla Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2 11 False Kate Mosse; Yael van der Wouden Fun Home Alison Bechdel 2 11 False Lucy Knight; Yael van der Wouden Possession A. S. Byatt 2 11 False Fiona Sturges; Sarah Crown Commonwealth Ann Patchett 2 11 False Philippe Sands; Roxane Gay Daniel Deronda George Eliot 2 11 False Andrew Solomon; Jacqueline Rose Swami and Friends R. K. 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