List of the 100 best English-language novels

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The list of the 100 best English-language novels was compiled by Robert McCrum in 2015 for the British newspaper The Guardian .

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Year of
first publication		 Title of the original English edition Title of the German edition Author of the novel
1678 The Pilgrim's Progress Pilgrimage to blessed eternity John Bunyan
1719 Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
1726 Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
1748 Clarissa Clarissa Samuel Richardson
1749 Tom Jones Tom Jones Henry Fielding
1759 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Life and views of Tristram Shandy, gentleman Laurence Stars
1816 Emma Emma Jane Austen
1818 Frankenstein Frankenstein Mary Shelley
1818 Nightmare Abbey Nachtmahr Abbey Thomas Love Peacock
1838 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket several different Edgar Allan Poe
1845 Sybil, or The Two Nations Sybil Benjamin Disraeli
1847 Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
1847 Wuthering Heights Storm height Emily Brontë
1848 Vanity Fair Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
1850 David Copperfield David Copperfield Charles Dickens
1850 The Scarlet Letter The scarlet letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
1851 Moby-Dick Moby-Dick Herman Melville
1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
1868 The moonstone The moon diamond Wilkie Collins
1868-1869 Little Women Betty and her sisters Louisa May Alcott
1871-1872 Middlemarch Middlemarch George Eliot
1875 The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
1884/1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
1886 Kidnapped Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
1889 Three men in a boat Three men in a boat Jerome K. Jerome
1890 The Sign of Four The sign of the four Arthur Conan Doyle
1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray The portrait of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
1891 New Grub Street Line money George Robert Gissing
1895 Jude the Obscure In the dark Thomas Hardy
1895 The Red Badge of Courage The red medal for bravery Stephen Crane
1897 Dracula Dracula Bram Stoker
1899 Heart of Darkness Heart of darkness Joseph Conrad
1900 Sister Carrie Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
1901 Kim Kim Rudyard Kipling
1903 The Call of the Wild call of the Wild Jack London
1904 The Golden Bowl The golden bowl Henry James
1904 Hadrian the Seventh Hadrian VII Frederick Rolfe
1908 The Wind in the Willows The wind in the willows Kenneth Grahame
1910 The History of Mr. Polly Mr. Polly gets out HG Wells
1911 Zuleika Dobson Suleika Dobson Max Beerbohm
1915 The Good Soldier The saddest story Ford Madox Ford
1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps The thirty-nine steps John Buchan
1915 The Rainbow The Rainbow DH Lawrence
1915 Of human bondage Man's bondage William Somerset Maugham
1920 The Age of Innocence Time of innocence Edith Wharton
1922 Ulysses Ulysses James Joyce
1922 Babbitt Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
1924 A Passage to India In search of India EM Forster
1925 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Gentlemen prefer blondes Anita Loos
1925 Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
1925 The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
1926 Lolly Willowes Lolly Willowes or the loving hunter man Sylvia Townsend Warner
1926 The Sun Also Rises Fiesta Ernest Hemingway
1929 The Maltese Falcon The Maltese falcon Dashiell Hammett
1930 As I Lay Dying When I was dying William Faulkner
1932 Brave New World Beautiful new world Aldous Huxley
1932 Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
1932 Nineteen Nineteen On the rubble John Dos Passos
1934 Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
1938 scoop scoop Evelyn Waugh
1938 Murphy Murphy Samuel Beckett
1939 The Big Sleep The great sleep Raymond Chandler
1939 Party going The social journey Henry Green
1939 At swim-two-birds On swimming-two-birds Flann O'Brien
1939 The Grapes of Wrath Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
1946 Joy in the Morning Without me, Jeeves! PG Wodehouse
1946 All the King's Men The game of power Robert Penn Warren
1947 Under the volcano Under the volcano Malcolm Lowry
1948 The Heat of the Day In the heat of the day Elizabeth Bowen
1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 George Orwell
1951 The end of the affair The end of an affair Graham Greene
1951 The catcher in the rye The catcher in the rye JD Salinger
1953 The Adventures of Augie March The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
1954 Lord of the Flies Lord of the flies William Golding
1955 Lolita Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
1957 On the road On road Jack Kerouac
1957 Voss Voss Patrick White
1960 To kill a mockingbird Who disturbs the nightingale Harper Lee
1960 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The teacher Muriel Spark
1961 Catch-22 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
1962 The Golden Notebook The golden notebook Doris Lessing
1962 A clockwork orange Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
1964 A single man The loner Christopher Isherwood
1966 In Cold Blood In cold blood Truman Capote
1966 The Bell Jar The bell jar Sylvia Plath
1969 Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy's complaints Philip Roth
1971 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
1971 Rabbit Redux Under the astronaut moon John Updike
1977 Song of Solomon Solomon's song Toni Morrison
1979 A bend in the river At the bend of the great river VS Naipaul
1981 Midnight's Children Midnight children Salman Rushdie
1981 Housekeeping House without a stop Marilynne Robinson
1984 Money: A Suicide Note Greedy Martin Amis
1986 An Artist of the Floating World The painter of the flowing world Kazuo Ishiguro
1988 The beginning of spring Beginning of spring Penelope Fitzgerald
1988 Breathing Lessons Breathing exercises Anne Tyler
1990 Amongst Women Among women John McGahern
1997 Underworld Underworld Don DeLillo
1999 Disgrace shame JM Coetzee
2000 True History of the Kelly Gang The real story of Ned Kelly and his gang Peter Carey

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