"State of the Nation" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"

1.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,355,979 ratings
2.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,390 ratings
3.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3.92 avg rating — 996,642 ratings
4.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,543 ratings
5.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,617 ratings
6.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,955 ratings
7.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,192 ratings
8.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,061 ratings
9.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,965 ratings
10.
North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,577 ratings
11.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,454 ratings
12.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,590 ratings
13.
A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating — 156,843 ratings
14.
Cranford
Cranford 3.83 avg rating — 46,850 ratings
15.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,125 ratings
16.
The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,304 ratings
17.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.86 avg rating — 65,071 ratings
18.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead 4.19 avg rating — 78,030 ratings
19.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,724 ratings
20.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner 3.69 avg rating — 91,973 ratings
21.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,530 ratings
22.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,381 ratings
23.
White Teeth
White Teeth 3.79 avg rating — 170,739 ratings
24.
Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 174,905 ratings
25.
Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie 3.77 avg rating — 41,366 ratings
26.
Hard Times
Hard Times 3.55 avg rating — 72,191 ratings
27.
The Group
The Group 3.68 avg rating — 16,960 ratings
28.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,352 ratings
28.
The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,232 ratings
30.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating — 194,239 ratings
31.
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,354 ratings
32.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,706 ratings
33.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 85,394 ratings
34.
Disgrace
Disgrace 3.86 avg rating — 114,201 ratings
35.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,046 ratings
36.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,625 ratings
37.
Shirley
Shirley 3.76 avg rating — 36,188 ratings
38.
A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River 3.77 avg rating — 18,434 ratings
39.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country 3.92 avg rating — 78,539 ratings
40.
Goodbye to Berlin
Goodbye to Berlin 3.93 avg rating — 20,485 ratings
41.
The Way We Live Now
The Way We Live Now 4.09 avg rating — 13,882 ratings
42.
Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers 4.13 avg rating — 3,358 ratings
43.
Microserfs
Microserfs 3.89 avg rating — 24,470 ratings
44.
White Noise
White Noise 3.86 avg rating — 123,837 ratings
45.
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry 4.01 avg rating — 6,232 ratings
46.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral 3.95 avg rating — 86,064 ratings
47.
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 13,635 ratings
48.
Play It As It Lays
Play It As It Lays 3.91 avg rating — 85,236 ratings
49.
The Last September
The Last September 3.45 avg rating — 3,549 ratings
50.
The Grass Is Singing
The Grass Is Singing 3.83 avg rating — 14,769 ratings
50.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 3.80 avg rating — 5,339 ratings
52.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating — 30,642 ratings
53.
Germinal
Germinal 4.20 avg rating — 41,609 ratings
54.
The Leopard
The Leopard 4.01 avg rating — 44,210 ratings
55.
Room at The Top
Room at The Top 3.69 avg rating — 2,578 ratings
56.
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 44,593 ratings
57.
Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road 3.71 avg rating — 15,711 ratings
58.
Dombey and Son
Dombey and Son 3.96 avg rating — 16,455 ratings
59.
Main Street
Main Street 3.78 avg rating — 26,592 ratings
60.
A Kestrel for a Knave
A Kestrel for a Knave 4.06 avg rating — 7,732 ratings
61.
The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust 3.70 avg rating — 23,728 ratings
61.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,196 ratings
63.
Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders 3.51 avg rating — 48,076 ratings
64.
Billy Liar
Billy Liar 3.71 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
65.
The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,162 ratings
66.
Anthills of the Savannah
Anthills of the Savannah 3.85 avg rating — 4,491 ratings
67.
Sybil, or the Two Nations
Sybil, or the Two Nations 3.29 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
68.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 4.04 avg rating — 10,246 ratings
69.
They Were Counted
They Were Counted 4.20 avg rating — 1,458 ratings
70.
A Kind of Loving
A Kind of Loving 4.09 avg rating — 1,539 ratings
71.
The Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel 3.85 avg rating — 5,846 ratings
72.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.84 avg rating — 10,884 ratings
73.
Babbitt
Babbitt 3.69 avg rating — 24,525 ratings
74.
Effi Briest
Effi Briest 3.27 avg rating — 15,798 ratings
75.
Remembering Babylon
Remembering Babylon 3.48 avg rating — 3,689 ratings
76.
The Virgin in the Garden (The Frederica Quartet, #1)
The Virgin in the Garden (The Frederica Quartet, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 3,609 ratings
77.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians 3.93 avg rating — 34,735 ratings
77.
The Red Room
The Red Room 3.24 avg rating — 4,330 ratings
79.
The Kingdom of This World
The Kingdom of This World 3.78 avg rating — 7,900 ratings
80.
The Betrothed
The Betrothed 3.87 avg rating — 17,045 ratings
80.
The Home and the World
The Home and the World 3.83 avg rating — 5,868 ratings
82.
Bel-Ami
Bel-Ami 3.86 avg rating — 47,112 ratings
83.
The Return of the Soldier
The Return of the Soldier 3.69 avg rating — 9,006 ratings
84.
Of Love and Hunger
Of Love and Hunger 4.02 avg rating — 645 ratings
85.
New Grub Street
New Grub Street 3.78 avg rating — 6,406 ratings
85.
The Lonely Londoners
The Lonely Londoners 3.70 avg rating — 13,078 ratings
87.
South Riding
South Riding 3.99 avg rating — 3,351 ratings
88.
Castle Rackrent
Castle Rackrent 3.16 avg rating — 4,280 ratings
89.
London Fields
London Fields 3.67 avg rating — 13,288 ratings
89.
Shame
Shame 3.87 avg rating — 12,963 ratings
91.
Underworld
Underworld 3.95 avg rating — 33,125 ratings
92.
The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters 3.83 avg rating — 10,131 ratings
93.
God's Bits of Wood
God's Bits of Wood 3.98 avg rating — 3,057 ratings
94.
Lanark
Lanark 4.10 avg rating — 7,665 ratings
95.
What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy, #1)
What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 12,755 ratings
96.
Oroonoko
Oroonoko 3.01 avg rating — 16,384 ratings
97.
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money 4.12 avg rating — 4,966 ratings
98.
A Dry White Season
A Dry White Season 4.06 avg rating — 4,357 ratings
99.
Mother
Mother 3.97 avg rating — 18,467 ratings
100.
July's People
July's People 3.51 avg rating — 8,096 ratings
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