The ones that got away

Given by The Guardian

Other Names: Guardian BTGA, The Guardian: Books That Got Away
100 Works 266,776 Books 6,229 Reviews 4.1

A month after The Guardian published their 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, they followed up with The ones that got away – 100 books nominated by readers which were not named in the 1000 Novels list.

Categories:
All, And 20 more ... (20), Comedy (5), Crime (9), Family and self (13), Love (20), Science fiction and fantasy (12), State of the Nation (12), War and travel (9)
Year Awarded:
2009
WorkCategory
Heart's Journey in Winter (1995) by James Buchan
And 20 more ...
The White Guard (1926) by Mikhail Bulgakov
And 20 more ...
Aegypt (1987) by John Crowley
And 20 more ...
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1993) by Louis De Bernières
And 20 more ...
The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever (1979) by Stephen Donaldson
And 20 more ...
Troubles (1970) by J. G. Farrell
And 20 more ...
Night Soldiers (1988) by Alan Furst
And 20 more ...
I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
And 20 more ...
See You in Yasukuni (1969) by Gerald Hanley
And 20 more ...
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1971) by George V. Higgins
And 20 more ...
March Violets (1989) by Philip Kerr
And 20 more ...
Near to the Wild Heart (1943) by Clarice Lispector
And 20 more ...
Khan al-Khalili (1946) by Naguib Mahfouz
And 20 more ...
A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast of Crows / A Dance with Dragons (1996) by George R. R. Martin
And 20 more ...
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002) by Jon McGregor
And 20 more ...
The Spanish Farm Trilogy, 1914-1918 (1927) by R. H. Mottram
And 20 more ...
Gormenghast (1950) by Mervyn Peake
And 20 more ...
The Time of Our Singing (2003) by Richard Powers
And 20 more ...
Angel Pavement (1930) by J. B. Priestley
And 20 more ...
Phantom Lady (1942) by Cornell Woolrich
And 20 more ...
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1975) by David Nobbs
Comedy
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (1899) by E. O. Somerville
Comedy
Trooper to the Southern Cross (1934) by Angela Thirkell
Comedy
The Caravaners (1909) by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Comedy
Drowned Hopes (1990) by Donald E. Westlake
Comedy
The Fashion In Shrouds (1938) by Margery Allingham
Crime
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) by Margery Allingham
Crime
The Final Days (2008) by Alex Chance
Crime
Night and the City (1946) by Gerald Kersh
Crime
The Underground Man (1971) by Ross Macdonald
Crime
The Way Some People Die (1951) by Ross Macdonald
Crime
Watchmen (1987) by Alan Moore
Crime
True Grit (1968) by Charles Portis
Crime
I Was Dora Suarez (1990) by Derek Raymond
Crime
Pather Panchali (1929) by Bibhutibhushan Banerji
Family and self
Parents and Children (1941) by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Family and self
Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar
Family and self
Cards of Identity (1955) by Nigel Dennis
Family and self
Death of an Ordinary Man (2004) by Glen Duncan
Family and self
The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver
Family and self
The British Museum is Falling Down (1965) by David Lodge
Family and self
The Country Girls (1960) by Edna O'Brien
Family and self
The Fortnight in September (1931) by R. C. Sherriff
Family and self
Riders in the Chariot (1961) by Patrick White
Family and self
Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian
Family and self
The Daisy Chain (1856) by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Family and self
L'Assommoir (1876) by Émile Zola
Family and self
La Regenta (1884) by Leopoldo Alas
Love
Before She Met Me (1982) by Julian Barnes
Love
The Bread of Those Early Years (1955) by Heinrich Böll
Love
Belle du Seigneur (1968) by Albert Cohen
Love
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
Love
The Siege (2001) by Helen Dunmore
Love
Ask the Dust (1939) by John Fante
Love
Senseless (2004) by Paul Golding
Love
A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) by Thomas Hardy
Love
In Love (1953) by Alfred Hayes
Love
The Price of Salt (1952) by Patricia Highsmith
Love
What I Loved (2003) by Siri Hustvedt
Love
The Tale of Genji (2015) by Shikibu Murasaki
Love
The Cloud Sketcher (2000) by Richard Rayner
Love
I Sent a Letter to My Love (1975) by Bernice Rubens
Love
Fanny by Gaslight (1940) by Michael Sadleir
Love
Zoo, or, Letters Not About Love (1923) by Viktor Shklovsky
Love
Gordon (1966) by Edith Templeton
Love
Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton
Love
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thornton Wilder
Love
Ender's Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card
Science fiction and fantasy
Little, Big (1981) by John Crowley
Science fiction and fantasy
The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen (2014) by Steven Erikson
Science fiction and fantasy
Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton
Science fiction and fantasy
Island (1962) by Aldous Huxley
Science fiction and fantasy
Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979) by Doris Lessing
Science fiction and fantasy
The Boys from Brazil (1976) by Ira Levin
Science fiction and fantasy
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941) by H. P. Lovecraft
Science fiction and fantasy
The Wave Theory of Angels (2005) by Alison MacLeod
Science fiction and fantasy
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) by Herman Melville
Science fiction and fantasy
Tom's Midnight Garden (1958) by Philippa Pearce
Science fiction and fantasy
Lord of Light (1967) by Roger Zelazny
Science fiction and fantasy
Havoc, in its Third Year (2004) by Ronan Bennett
State of the Nation
A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) by Daniel Defoe
State of the Nation
The Sea and Poison (1957) by Shūsaku Endō
State of the Nation
The Football Factory (1996) by John King
State of the Nation
The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) by Frank Norris
State of the Nation
Joseph Knight (2003) by James Robertson
State of the Nation
The Complete Persepolis (2000) by Marjane Satrapi
State of the Nation
And Quiet Flows the Don (1928) by Mikhail Sholokhov
State of the Nation
Downriver (1991) by Iain Sinclair
State of the Nation
When Memory Dies (1997) by Ambalavaner Sivanandan
State of the Nation
Fame is the Spur (1940) by Howard Spring
State of the Nation
Pereira Maintains (1994) by Antonio Tabucchi
State of the Nation
Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
War and travel
Riceyman Steps (1923) by Arnold Bennett
War and travel
The Persian Bride: A Novel (1999) by James Buchan
War and travel
The March (2005) by E. L. Doctorow
War and travel
The Consul at Sunset (1951) by Gerald Hanley
War and travel
Tree of Smoke (2007) by Denis Johnson
War and travel
The Middle Parts of Fortune (1929) by Frederic Manning
War and travel
The Killer Angels (1974) by Michael Shaara
War and travel
The Miracle Game (1991) by Josef Škvorecký
War and travel

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