1984 by George Orwell
A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral Philip Roth
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
Atonement Ian McEwan
Austerlitz W. G. Sebald
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web E. B. White
Clarissa Samuel Richardson
Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Daniel Deronda George Eliot
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Emma Jane Austen
FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
Herzog Saul Bellow
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
IRONWEED by William Kennedy
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Ce
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
KIM by Rudyard Kipling
La Confidential James Ellroy
Lanark Alasdair Gray
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
Little Women Louisa M. Alcott
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
LOVING by Henry Green
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
Malone Dies Samuel Beckett
Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
Money Martin Amis
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
n the Road Jack Kerouac
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
Northern Lights Philip Pullman
NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
Nostromo Joseph Conrad
OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marqu
Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey
PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
Sybil Benjamin Disraeli
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
The BFG Roald Dahl
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
The Periodic Table Primo Levi
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Plague Albert Camus
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
The Quiet American Graham Greene
THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
The Trial Franz Kafka
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
Tom Jones Henry Fielding
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
ULYSSES by James Joyce
UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
USA John Dos Passos
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee
WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
Wise Children Angela Carter
WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral Philip Roth
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
Atonement Ian McEwan
Austerlitz W. G. Sebald
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web E. B. White
Clarissa Samuel Richardson
Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Daniel Deronda George Eliot
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Emma Jane Austen
FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
Herzog Saul Bellow
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
IRONWEED by William Kennedy
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Ce
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
KIM by Rudyard Kipling
La Confidential James Ellroy
Lanark Alasdair Gray
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
Little Women Louisa M. Alcott
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
LOVING by Henry Green
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
Malone Dies Samuel Beckett
Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
Money Martin Amis
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
n the Road Jack Kerouac
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
Northern Lights Philip Pullman
NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
Nostromo Joseph Conrad
OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marqu
Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey
PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
Sybil Benjamin Disraeli
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
The BFG Roald Dahl
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
The Periodic Table Primo Levi
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Plague Albert Camus
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
The Quiet American Graham Greene
THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
The Trial Franz Kafka
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
Tom Jones Henry Fielding
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
ULYSSES by James Joyce
UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
USA John Dos Passos
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee
WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
Wise Children Angela Carter
WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
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This is a list of the top "100" Books of all time. As you can see there are more that 100. This is because the
list below is a result of combining the Reader's Digest list (US) and that from Robert McCrum of England (Brit).
Interestingly enough, the two list only agree on 15 works as worthy of being on the list (BOTH). We would be
interested in hearing your comments as well as those you believe should have made the list.
list below is a result of combining the Reader's Digest list (US) and that from Robert McCrum of England (Brit).
Interestingly enough, the two list only agree on 15 works as worthy of being on the list (BOTH). We would be
interested in hearing your comments as well as those you believe should have made the list.
Top "100" Books of all Time
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