The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must ReadWar and Travel

Given by The Guardian

Other Names: 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, Guardian 1000
132 Works 942,230 Books 16,200 Reviews ½ 4.0
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.
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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
Silver Stallion (1990) by Junghyo Ahn
Death of a Hero (1929) by Richard Aldington
Master Georgie (1998) by Beryl Bainbridge
Darkness Falls from the Air (1942) by Nigel Balchin
Empire of the Sun (1984) by J. G. Ballard
Regeneration (1991) by Pat Barker
A Long, Long Way (2005) by Sebastian Barry
Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944) by H. E. Bates
Carrie's War (1973) by Nina Bawden
The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño
The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles
An Ice-Cream War (1982) by William Boyd
When the Wind Blows (1982) by Raymond Briggs
Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
Auto-da-Fé (1935) by Elias Canetti
One of Ours (1922) by Willa Cather
Monkey (1942) by Wu Ch'eng-en
Journey to the End of the Night (1983) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
Sharpe's Eagle (1981) by Bernard Cornwell
The History of Pompey the Little (1750) by Francis Coventry
The Red Badge of Courage (2004) by Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe (1994) by Daniel Defoe
Bomber (1970) by Len Deighton
Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey
Three Soldiers (1921) by John Dos Passos
South Wind (1917) by Norman Douglas
The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
Justine (1957) by Lawrence Durrell
The Bamboo Bed (1969) by William Eastlake
The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) by J. G. Farrell
Birdsong (1993) by Sebastian Faulks
Parade's End (1925) by Ford Madox Ford
The African Queen (1935) by C. S. Forester
The Ship (1943) by C. S. Forester
Flashman (1969) by George MacDonald Fraser
Cold Mountain (1997) by Charles Frazier
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Beach (1996) by Alex Garland
To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (1980) by William Golding
Asterix the Gaul (1961) by René Goscinny
The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
Count Belisarius (1938) by Robert Graves
Life and Fate (1984) by Vasily Grossman
The Good Soldier Svejk (0) by Jaroslav Hašek
De Niro's Game (2006) by Rawi Hage
King Solomon's Mines (1882) by H. Rider Haggard
She (1886) by H. Rider Haggard
The Slaves of Solitude (1947) by Patrick Hamilton
Covenant with Death (1961) by John Harris
Enigma (1995) by Robert Harris
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
The Castafiore Emerald (1961) by Hergé
The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941) by Hergé
Tintin in Tibet (1959) by Hergé
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope
The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini
A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) by Richard Hughes
Rasselas (1759) by Samuel Johnson
From Here to Eternity (1951) by James Jones
Andersonville (1955) by MacKinlay Kantor
Confederates (1979) by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's Ark (1982) by Thomas Keneally
Day (2007) by A. L. Kennedy
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler
The Painted Bird (1965) by Jerzy Kosiński
If Not Now, When? (1985) by Primo Levi
The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
The Guns of Navarone (1957) by Alistair MacLean
The Naked and the Dead (1948) by Norman Mailer
Man's Fate (1933) by André Malraux
The Great Fortune (1960) by Olivia Manning
Fortunes of War trilogies
The Children of the New Forest (1847) by Captain Frederick Marryat
All the Pretty Horses (1992) by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
The Mark of Zorro (1919) by Johnston McCulley
Lonesome Dove (1985) by Larry McMurtry
Moby Dick (2014) by Herman Melville
Tales of the South Pacific (1946) by James A. Michener
The Cruel Sea (1951) by Nicholas Monsarrat
History (1974) by Elsa Morante
Suite Française (2004) by Irène Némirovsky
The sorrow of war (1991) by Bao Ninh
Master and Commander (1969) by Patrick O'Brian
The Things They Carried (1990) by Tim O'Brien
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Orczy
Burmese Days (1934) by George Orwell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) by Robert M. Pirsig
The Military Philosophers (1968) by Anthony Powell
The Soldier's Art (1966) by Anthony Powell
The Valley of Bones (1964) by Anthony Powell
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1785) by Rudolf Erich Raspe
All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) by Erich Maria Remarque
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa
Captain Blood (1922) by Rafael Sabatini
Scaramouche (1921) by Rafael Sabatini
Everything Is Illuminated (2001) by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Hunters (1956) by James Salter
Ivanhoe (1819) by Sir Walter Scott
Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald
The Rings of Saturn (1995) by W. G. Sebald
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse (1877) by Anna Sewell
The Young Lions (1949) by Irwin Shaw
A Town Like Alice (1950) by Nevil Shute
The Complete Maus (1986) by Art Spiegelman
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) by Stendhal
Cryptonomicon (1999) by Neal Stephenson
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) by Laurence Sterne
Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Flag for Sunrise (1981) by Robert Stone
Sophie's Choice (1979) by William Styron
Gulliver's Travels (1996) by Jonathan Swift
War and Peace (1869) by León Tolstói
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) by Jules Verne
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne
Williwaw (1946) by Gore Vidal
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
Men at Arms (1952) by Evelyn Waugh
Put Out More Flags (1942) by Evelyn Waugh
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) by H. G. Wells
The Machine Gunners (1975) by Robert Westall
Voss (1957) by Patrick White
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902) by Owen Wister
The Caine Mutiny (1951) by Herman Wouk
The Debacle (1892) by Émile Zola

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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