The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"

1.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,356 ratings
2.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,225,592 ratings
3.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,632,671 ratings
4.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) 4.47 avg rating — 11,063,219 ratings
5.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,730,816 ratings
6.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,643 ratings
7.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,194 ratings
8.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass 4.06 avg rating — 597,596 ratings
9.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings 4.54 avg rating — 716,459 ratings
10.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again 4.29 avg rating — 4,345,551 ratings
11.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,355,821 ratings
12.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,493 ratings
13.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,503 ratings
14.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,969,860 ratings
15.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,958,999 ratings
16.
The Little Prince
The Little Prince 4.33 avg rating — 2,375,113 ratings
17.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,471 ratings
18.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,782,547 ratings
19.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,322,799 ratings
20.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,211 ratings
21.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,857 ratings
22.
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) 4.28 avg rating — 694,074 ratings
23.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,490 ratings
24.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,392,880 ratings
25.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 991,954 ratings
26.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,009 ratings
27.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,519 ratings
28.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,257,978 ratings
29.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,600 ratings
30.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 3.89 avg rating — 1,568,686 ratings
31.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,688 ratings
32.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,199 ratings
33.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,549 ratings
34.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,288 ratings
35.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,065 ratings
36.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,148 ratings
37.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,886 ratings
38.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,702 ratings
39.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,623 ratings
40.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,245 ratings
41.
Dune (Dune, #1)
Dune (Dune, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 1,570,082 ratings
42.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None 4.28 avg rating — 1,543,959 ratings
43.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,201 ratings
44.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,024 ratings
45.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,372 ratings
46.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,010 ratings
47.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,870 ratings
48.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,006 ratings
49.
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1) 4.40 avg rating — 452,861 ratings
50.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,263 ratings
51.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,962 ratings
52.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day 4.14 avg rating — 344,013 ratings
53.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,289 ratings
54.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) 4.13 avg rating — 376,269 ratings
55.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,120 ratings
56.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,906 ratings
57.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,134 ratings
58.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,498 ratings
59.
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,842,980 ratings
60.
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,401,796 ratings
61.
Bell Jar
Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,582 ratings
62.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,548 ratings
63.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,291 ratings
64.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,785 ratings
65.
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland 4.03 avg rating — 395,717 ratings
66.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3.92 avg rating — 996,620 ratings
67.
Perfume. The story of a murderer
Perfume. The story of a murderer 4.04 avg rating — 530,034 ratings
68.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,901 ratings
69.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,938 ratings
70.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,470 ratings
71.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows 4.02 avg rating — 235,215 ratings
72.
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Shining (The Shining, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 1,650,238 ratings
73.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 3.83 avg rating — 641,282 ratings
74.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 324,951 ratings
75.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,006 ratings
76.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,588 ratings
77.
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 482,301 ratings
78.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,190 ratings
79.
The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,292 ratings
80.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,453 ratings
81.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine 3.89 avg rating — 552,892 ratings
82.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces 3.89 avg rating — 291,761 ratings
83.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,459 ratings
84.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 484,625 ratings
85.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,955 ratings
86.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,414,942 ratings
87.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,179 ratings
88.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4.09 avg rating — 495,916 ratings
89.
A Room with a View
A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 197,352 ratings
90.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,702 ratings
91.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,411 ratings
92.
Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,763 ratings
93.
His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3)
His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3) 4.29 avg rating — 166,690 ratings
94.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White 4.01 avg rating — 162,711 ratings
95.
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 1,012,852 ratings
96.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) 4.26 avg rating — 327,451 ratings
97.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,052 ratings
98.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,747 ratings
99.
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon 4.23 avg rating — 763,498 ratings
100.
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 78,263 ratings
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