The Daily Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read

1.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,039 ratings
2.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,689,512 ratings
3.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,844 ratings
5.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,932 ratings
6.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,999 ratings
7.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,784 ratings
8.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings 4.54 avg rating — 716,551 ratings
9.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,453 ratings
10.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,764 ratings
11.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,656 ratings
12.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) 4.13 avg rating — 376,326 ratings
13.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,108 ratings
14.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,050 ratings
15.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,424 ratings
16.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,395 ratings
17.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,984 ratings
19.
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers 4.10 avg rating — 340,241 ratings
20.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,360 ratings
21.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,831 ratings
22.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,792 ratings
23.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,086 ratings
24.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,937 ratings
25.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,980 ratings
26.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,997 ratings
26.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,108 ratings
28.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,356 ratings
29.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,372 ratings
30.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,717 ratings
31.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,920 ratings
32.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,377 ratings
33.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,386 ratings
34.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,988 ratings
35.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,102 ratings
36.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,697 ratings
38.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,818 ratings
39.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,020 ratings
40.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,540 ratings
41.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,289 ratings
42.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 4.02 avg rating — 108,228 ratings
43.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,778 ratings
44.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,397 ratings
45.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,288 ratings
45.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 325,001 ratings
47.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,257 ratings
48.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,054 ratings
49.
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin 4.10 avg rating — 68,928 ratings
50.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,694 ratings
51.
Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,966 ratings
51.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,541 ratings
53.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,116 ratings
54.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 3.70 avg rating — 59,335 ratings
55.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 552,004 ratings
56.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds 3.83 avg rating — 340,308 ratings
57.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3.75 avg rating — 34,039 ratings
58.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,671 ratings
59.
Germinal
Germinal 4.20 avg rating — 41,615 ratings
60.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,975 ratings
61.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,212 ratings
62.
Cranford
Cranford 3.83 avg rating — 46,860 ratings
63.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 4.06 avg rating — 102,510 ratings
63.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,959 ratings
65.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,370 ratings
66.
Disgrace
Disgrace 3.86 avg rating — 114,215 ratings
67.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 3.80 avg rating — 33,716 ratings
68.
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7) 4.32 avg rating — 30,709 ratings
69.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating — 25,618 ratings
70.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,284 ratings
71.
Crash
Crash 3.59 avg rating — 28,424 ratings
72.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,230 ratings
73.
Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock 3.69 avg rating — 34,855 ratings
74.
My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red 3.87 avg rating — 60,041 ratings
75.
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game 4.10 avg rating — 41,305 ratings
76.
Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Comfort Farm 3.88 avg rating — 53,855 ratings
77.
A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River 3.77 avg rating — 18,435 ratings
77.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,059 ratings
79.
The Home and the World
The Home and the World 3.83 avg rating — 5,869 ratings
79.
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda 3.73 avg rating — 21,641 ratings
81.
Nausea
Nausea 3.93 avg rating — 134,169 ratings
81.
Life: A User's Manual
Life: A User's Manual 4.18 avg rating — 9,837 ratings
83.
The Leopard
The Leopard 4.01 avg rating — 44,231 ratings
84.
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels 4.25 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
85.
Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim 3.75 avg rating — 31,470 ratings
86.
The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives 4.17 avg rating — 50,138 ratings
87.
The Dream of the Red Chamber
The Dream of the Red Chamber 3.95 avg rating — 164 ratings
89.
The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 18,171 ratings
90.
Underworld
Underworld 3.95 avg rating — 33,131 ratings
91.
Under the Net
Under the Net 3.77 avg rating — 16,017 ratings
91.
Scoop
Scoop 3.79 avg rating — 22,003 ratings
93.
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 165,242 ratings
94.
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady 3.39 avg rating — 8,499 ratings
95.
Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie 3.91 avg rating — 14,856 ratings
96.
The Moonstone
The Moonstone 3.91 avg rating — 97,257 ratings
97.
Le Voyeur
Le Voyeur 3.80 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
98.
London Fields
London Fields 3.67 avg rating — 13,290 ratings
99.
Waiting for the Mahatma
Waiting for the Mahatma 3.82 avg rating — 1,856 ratings