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State of the Nation (Part 6 of 'The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Should Read')

"All the books listed here address social questions or political changes - they think about the way we live now. These books are about the state of nations in every continent, and they prove that the best fiction isn't lofty and interior, set apart from contemporary reality, but is about facts and ideas and what's happening in the world." (Guardian)
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Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
1
Chinua Achebe
Anthills of the Savannah
Anthills of the Savannah
2
London Fields (Martin Amis)
London Fields
3
Martin Amis
Untouchable (Mulk Raj Anand)
Untouchable
4
Mulk Raj Anand
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
5
James Baldwin
La Comedie Humaine
La Comedie Humaine
6
They Were Counted
They Were Counted
7
A Kind of Loving
A Kind of Loving
8
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
9
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oroonoko (Aphra Behn)
Oroonoko
10
Aphra Behn
Clayhanger
Clayhanger
11
The Last September
The Last September
12
Room at the Top
Room at the Top
13
A Dry White Season
A Dry White Season
14
Shirley (Charlotte Brontë)
Shirley
15
Charlotte Brontë
Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers
16
The Virgin in the Garden (A.S. Byatt)
The Virgin in the Garden
17
A.S. Byatt
Tobacco Road (Erskine Caldwell)
Tobacco Road
18
Erskine Caldwell
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
19
Albert Camus
The Kingdom of This World (Alejo Carpentier)
The Kingdom of This World
20
Alejo Carpentier
What a Carve Up! (Jonathan Coe)
What a Carve Up!
21
Jonathan Coe
Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
Disgrace
22
J. M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
Waiting for the Barbarians
23
J.M. Coetzee
Microserfs
Microserfs
24
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
Moll Flanders
25
Daniel Defoe
Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld
26
Don Delillo
White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise
27
Don Delillo
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
28
Charles Dickens
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
29
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens)
Dombey and Son
30
Charles Dickens
Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
Hard Times
31
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens)
Little Dorrit
32
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
33
Charles Dickens
Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion)
Play It as It Lays
34
Joan Didion
Sybil (Benjamin Disraeli)
Sybil
35
Benjamin Disraeli
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
36
Alfred Döblin
The Book of Daniel (E.L. Doctorow)
The Book of Daniel
37
E.L. Doctorow
Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From the Underground
38
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
39
Fyodor Dostoevsky
U.S.A. (John Dos Passos)
U.S.A.
40
John Dos Passos
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