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Observer 100 Greatest Novels

In 2003, The Observer newspaper produced its list of the100 Greatest Novels of All Time. I'm going to try to read them all - eventually. This page is track my progress. I've also decided to try to read the books on a number of other lists - see List Central for more information. Read BBC means "Read before BookCrossing", so the the book is not registered on BC/has no journal entry.

Number of Observer 100 Greatest Novels read: 25

These are the novels in order of publication, not 'greatness'.


1 - Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
2 - Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
3 - Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
4 - Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift. Read BBC.
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, 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. Read BBC.
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 - 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. Read June 2006.
38 - The Call of the Wild, Jack London
39 - Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
40 - The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame. Read BBC.
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. Read June 2006.
48 - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Read BBC.
49 - The Trial, Franz Kafka. Read BBC.
50 - Men Without Women, The Essential Hemingway
51 - Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
52 - As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner. Read BBC.
53 - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley. Read BBC.
54 - Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
55 - USA, John Dos Passos
56 - The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler. Read BBC.
57 - The Pursuit Of Love, Nancy Mitford
58 - The Plague, Albert Camus
59 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell. Read BBC.
60 - Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
61 - The Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger Read January 2006.
62 - Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
63 - Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
64 - The Lord Of The Rings, J R R Tolkien. Read BBC.
66 - Lord Of The Flies, William Golding. Read May 2006.
67 - The Quiet American, Graham Greene. Read June 2006.
68 - On The Road, Jack Kerouac. Read May 2006.
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. Read BBC.
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. Read BBC.
83 - A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul
84 - Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
85 - Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson. Read June 2006.
86 - Lanark, Alasdair Gray
87 - The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster Read January 2006.
88 - The BFG, Roald Dahl. Read BBC.
89 - The Periodic Table, Primo Levi. Read BBC.
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. Read May 2005.
97 - Atonement, Ian McEwan. Read June 2006.
98 - Northern Lights, Philip Pullman. Read BBC.
99 - American Pastoral, Philip Roth
100 - Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald


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