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The Great English-Language Novels

This list is inspired by The Atlantic's recent list of their Great American Novels. For this list, I'm not abiding by The Atlantic's strict rule that all books are published within the last 100 years (imagine the classics you'd have to leave out!) and thus have no time limit on their publication. I will make another list that does comply with that rule. So, I have 136 novels in chronological order, just like The Atlantic's list, but the one rule I imposed on myself, unlike The Atlantic, is to allow an author only one entry on the list. I'm sure many will disagree with some of my choices, but that's a great thing about reading. Enjoy!
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Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
1
Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
2
Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
3
Jane Austen
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
4
Mary Shelley
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
Ivanhoe
5
Walter Scott
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Last of the Mohicans
6
James Fenimore Cooper
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
7
Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
8
Emily Brontë
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
9
Herman Melville
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
10
Charles Dickens
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
11
Lewis Carroll
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
12
Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
13
George Eliot
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
The Way We Live Now
14
Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
15
Mark Twain
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
16
Oscar Wilde
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
17
Bram Stoker
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds
18
H.G. Wells
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
19
Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
20
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Robert Tressell)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
21
Robert Tressell
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
22
James Joyce
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga
23
John Galsworthy
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
24
Theodore Dreiser
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
25
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
26
D.H. Lawrence
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway - 1929)
A Farewell to Arms
27
Ernest Hemingway - 1929
Passing (Nella Larsen)
Passing
28
Nella Larsen
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
29
William Faulkner
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves
30
Virginia Woolf
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
31
Aldous Huxley
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
I, Claudius
32
Robert Graves
It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis)
It Can't Happen Here
33
Sinclair Lewis
U.S.A. (John Dos Passos)
U.S.A.
34
John Dos Passos
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
35
Daphne Du Maurier
At Swim-Two-Brids (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Brids
36
Flann O'Brien
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Big Sleep
37
Raymond Chandler
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
38
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
39
John Steinbeck
The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
The Power and the Glory
40
Graham Greene
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