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The Best Books: The Top 100 Novels of All Time

A contemporary list, with an international flavour and a respect for the classics, The Best Books: Top 100 Novels of All Time list contains many of the great works of fiction you'd expect, but with a few surprises to add a little spice to the collection.
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
1
Aldous Huxley
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
2
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
3
George Orwell
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
4
Leo Tolstoy
Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
Waiting for the Barbarians
5
J.M. Coetzee
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
6
Joseph Heller
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
7
Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
8
Kurt Vonnegut
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
Blindness
9
Jose Saramago
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
10
William Faulkner
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
11
Albert Camus
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Invisible Cities
12
Italo Calvino
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
13
Jean-Paul Sartre
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
I, Claudius
14
Robert Graves
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
15
Franz Kafka
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
16
James Joyce
Life and Fate (Vassily Grossman)
Life and Fate
17
Vassily Grossman
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
Darkness at Noon
18
Arthur Koestler
Germinal (Émile Zola)
Germinal
19
Émile Zola
The Blood of Others (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Blood of Others
20
Simone De Beauvoir
Creation (Gore Vidal)
Creation
21
Gore Vidal
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
22
Vladimir Nabokov
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
23
Marcel Proust
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
24
George Eliot
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
25
Margaret Atwood
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
26
Ivan Turgenev
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
27
Virginia Woolf
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
28
Jack Kerouac
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
29
Harper Lee
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
30
John Steinbeck
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
31
Emily Bronte
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
32
Ernest Hemingway
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
The Quiet American
33
Graham Greene
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job (Kikuko Tsumura)
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
34
Kikuko Tsumura
The Bostonians (Henry James)
The Bostonians
35
Henry James
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
36
E.M. Forster
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
Sons and Lovers
37
D.H. Lawrence
A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
A Bend in the River
38
V.S. Naipaul
Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
Scoop
39
Evelyn Waugh
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
40
Saul Bellow
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