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8/100 According to The Telegraph...

  • The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • One Thousand and One Nights
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
  • Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  • The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
  • Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
  • The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
  • Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
  • The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  • Germinal by Emile Zola
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  • Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
  • Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
  • The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
  • The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  • If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
  • Crash by JG Ballard
  • A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  • The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • London Fields by Martin Amis
  • The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
  • The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
  • The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
  • Austerlitz by WG Sebald
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • Underworld by Don DeLillo
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  • The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The Rabbit books by John Updike
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  • Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  • Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  • The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
  • Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
  • A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
  • Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • A Passage to India by EM Forster
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  • The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
  • Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
  • The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • Disgrace by JM Coetzee
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot
nov 22 2011 ∞
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