The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must ReadLove

Given by The Guardian

Other Names: 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, Guardian 1000
141 Works 1,228,503 Books 22,081 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Guardian is a UK newspaper which, with its sister Sunday paper The Observer, published this list as a set of supplements over a one-week period early in 2009. As described by the Guardian: show more "This list… includes only novels —no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems — from any decade in any language."

The list actually contains only 998 books. show less
Categories:
All, Comedy (149), Crime (147), Family and Self (146), Love (141), Science Fiction and Fantasy (149), State of the Nation (134), War and Travel (132)
Year Awarded:
2009
Work
Le Grand Meaulnes (1959) by Alain-Fournier
Emma (1815) by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (1814) by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen
Persuasion (1817) by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen
Giovanni's Room (1956) by James Baldwin
Nightwood (1936) by Djuna Barnes
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Giorgio Bassani
Love for Lydia (1952) by H. E. Bates
More Die of Heartbreak (1987) by Saul Bellow
Lorna Doone (1869) by R. D. Blackmore
The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen
The Heat of the Day (1948) by Elizabeth Bowen
Villette (1853) by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (1960) by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
Look at Me (1981) by Anita Brookner
Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) by Rita Mae Brown
Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) by Truman Capote
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey
A Month in the Country (1980) by J. L. Carr
A Lost Lady (1923) by Willa Cather
My Ántonia (1918) by Willa Cather
Chéri (1920) by Colette
Claudine at School (1900) by Colette
Victory (1915) by Joseph Conrad
The Parasites (1949) by Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras
Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot
Daniel Deronda (1876) by George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot
The Virgin Suicides (1993) by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Blue Flower (1995) by Penelope Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
A Room with a View (1908) by E. M. Forster
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
The Snow Goose (1940) by Paul Gallico
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ruth (1853) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Sunset Song (1932) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Strait is the Gate (1924) by André Gide
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The End of the Affair (1951) by Graham Greene
Living (1929) by Henry Green
The Well of Loneliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders (1887) by Thomas Hardy
The Go-Between (1953) by L. P. Hartley
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Transit of Venus (1980) by Shirley Hazzard
A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
An Infamous Army (1937) by Georgette Heyer
Regency Buck (1935) by Georgette Heyer
The Swimming-Pool Library (1988) by Alan Hollinghurst
Green Mansions (1904) by W. H. Hudson
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
Crome Yellow (1921) by Aldous Huxley
The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James
The Wings of the Dove (1902) by Henry James
The Piano Teacher (1988) by Elfriede Jelinek
Beauty and Sadness (1964) by Yasunari Kawabata
The Far Pavilions (1978) by M. M. Kaye
Zorba the Greek (1943) by Nikos Kazantzakis
Moon over Africa (1955) by Pamela Kent
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1983) by Milan Kundera
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Princess of Clèves (1678) by Madame de La Fayette
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1960) by D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow (1915) by D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love (1920) by D. H. Lawrence
The Echoing Grove (1953) by Rosamond Lehmann
The Weather in the Streets (1936) by Rosamond Lehmann
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) by Anita Loos
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) by Audre Lorde
Foreign Affairs (1984) by Alison Lurie
Samarkand (1989) by Amin Maalouf
Dom Casmurro (1899) by Machado de Assis
Death in Venice (1902) by Thomas Mann
A Heart So White (1992) by Javier Marías
The Silent Duchess (1990) by Dacia Mariani
Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
So Long, See You Tomorrow (1979) by William Maxwell
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
The Child in Time (1987) by Ian McEwan
The Egoist (1879) by George Meredith
Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
Patience and Sarah (1969) by Isabel Miller
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
Love in a Cold Climate (1949) by Nancy Mitford
The Pursuit of Love (1945) by Nancy Mitford
Arturo's Island (1957) by Elsa Morante
Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
The Painter of Signs (1977) by R. K. Narayan
Delta of Venus (1969) by Anaïs Nin
All Souls' Day (1998) by Cees Nooteboom
The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje
Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
Manon Lescaut (1731) by Abbé Prévost
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
Maurice Guest (1908) by Henry Handel Richardson
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747) by Samuel Richardson
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) by Samuel Richardson
Gilead (2004) by Marilynne Robinson
Bonjour Tristesse (1954) by Françoise Sagan
Ali and Nino (1937) by Kurban Said
Light Years (1975) by James Salter
A Sport and a Pastime (1967) by James Salter
The Reader (1995) by Bernhard Schlink
The Reluctant Orphan = Orphan Bride (1947) by Sara Seale
Love Story (1970) by Erich Segal
Enemies, A Love Story (1966) by Isaac Bashevis Singer
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945) by Elizabeth Smart
I Capture the Castle (1948) by Dodie Smith
The Map of Love (1999) by Ahdaf Soueif
Valley of the Dolls (1966) by Jacqueline Susann
Waterland (1983) by Graham Swift
Diary of a Mad Old Man (1965) by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Anna Karenina (1875) by León Tolstói
Music & Silence (1999) by Rose Tremain
First Love (1860) by Ivan Turgenev
The Accidental Tourist (1985) by Anne Tyler
Breathing Lessons (1988) by Anne Tyler
The Night Watch (2006) by Sarah Waters
The Graduate (1963) by Charles Webb
The Age of Innocence (2008) by Edith Wharton
The Passion (1987) by Jeanette Winterson
East Lynne (1861) by Ellen Wood
Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates

Descriptions

The Guardian is a UK newspaper which, with its sister Sunday paper The Observer, published this list as a set of supplements over a one-week period early in 2009. As described by the Guardian: "This list… includes only novels —no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems — from any decade in any language."

The list actually contains only 998 books.

(English, Member-written)

The list actually contains only 998 books: 149 Comedy, 147 Crime, 146 Family and self, 141 Love, 149 Science fiction and fantasy, 134 State of the nation, 132 War and travel.

(English, Technical/disambiguation notice)
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction

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