100 best novels written in English

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WorkOrder Label
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
001
Robinson Crusoe (1994) by Daniel Defoe
002
Gulliver's Travels (1996) by Jonathan Swift
003
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747) by Samuel Richardson
004
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
005
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
006
Emma (1815) by Jane Austen
007
Frankenstein (2022) by Mary Shelley
008
Nightmare Abbey (1818) by Thomas Love Peacock
009
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1833) by Edgar Allan Poe
010
Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli
011
Jane Eyre (1960) by Charlotte Brontë
012
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
013
Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray
014
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
015
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
016
Moby Dick (2014) by Herman Melville
017
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
018
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
019
Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
020
Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
021
The Way We Live Now (1874) by Anthony Trollope
022
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
023
Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
024
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome
025
The Sign of Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle
026
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
027
New Grub Street (1891) by George Gissing
028
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
029
The Red Badge of Courage (2004) by Stephen Crane
030
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
031
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
032
Sister Carrie (1900) by Theodore Dreiser
033
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
034
The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
035
The Golden Bowl (1904) by Henry James
036
Hadrian the Seventh (1904) by Frederick Rolfe
037
The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
038
The History of Mr. Polly (1910) by H. G. Wells
039
Zuleika Dobson (1911) by Max Beerbohm
040
The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
041
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
042
The Rainbow (1915) by D. H. Lawrence
043
Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
044
The Age of Innocence (2008) by Edith Wharton
045
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
046
Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
047
A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
048
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) by Anita Loos
049
Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
050
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
051
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman (1926) by Sylvia Townsend Warner
052
The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
053
The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett
054
As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
055
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
056
Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons
057
1919 (1932) by John Dos Passos
058
Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
059
Scoop (1938) by Evelyn Waugh
060
Murphy (1938) by Samuel Beckett
061
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
062
Party Going (1939) by Henry Green
063
At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien
064
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
065
Joy in the Morning (1947) by P. G. Wodehouse
066
All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
067
Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
068
The Heat of the Day (1948) by Elizabeth Bowen
069
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
070
The End of the Affair (1951) by Graham Greene
071
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
072
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow
073
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
074
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
075
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
076
Voss (1957) by Patrick White
077
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
078
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
079
Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
080
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
081
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
082
A Single Man (1964) by Christopher Isherwood
083
In Cold Blood (1965) by Truman Capote
084
The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath
085
Portnoy's Complaint (1967) by Philip Roth
086
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1971) by Elizabeth Taylor
087
Rabbit Redux (1971) by John Updike
088
Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison
089
A Bend in the River (1979) by V. S. Naipaul
090
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
091
Housekeeping (1980) by Marilynne Robinson
092
Money: A Suicide Note (1984) by Martin Amis
093
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) by Kazuo Ishiguro
094
The Beginning of Spring (1988) by Penelope Fitzgerald
095
Breathing Lessons (1988) by Anne Tyler
096
Amongst Women (1990) by John McGahern
097
Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
098
Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee
099
True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) by Peter Carey
100

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