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Top 100 Books Everyone Should Read

The Telegraph's 'Top 100 Novels Everyone Should Read', by author and approximate date of publication. This list is not my own - sorry if your favourite book is not on here :)
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Chinua Achebe (1958)
Things Fall Apart
Douglas Adams (1979)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Kingsley Amis (1954)
Lucky Jim
Martin Amis (1989)
London Fields
Margaret Atwood (1985)
The Handmaid's Tale
Jane Austen (1813)
Pride and Prejudice
James Baldwin (1953)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
J. G. Ballard (1973)
Crash
Honoré de Balzac (1835)
Father Goriot
Roberto Bolano (1998)
The Savage Detectives
Charlotte Bronte (1847)
Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë (1847)
Wuthering Heights
Italo Calvino (1979)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Albert Camus (1946)
The Stranger
John le Carré (1974)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Peter Carey (1988)
Oscar and Lucinda
Lewis Carroll (1865)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
Don Quixote
Raymond Chandler (1939)
The Big Sleep
J M Coetzee (1999)
Disgrace
Wilkie Collins (1868)
The Moonstone
Joseph Conrad (1899)
Heart of Darkness
Daniel Defoe (1719)
Robinson Crusoe
Don DeLillo (1997)
Underworld
Charles Dickens (1849)
David Copperfield
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
Crime and Punishment
Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Alexandre Dumas (1844)
The Three Musketeers
Umberto Eco (1980)
The Name of the Rose
George Eliot (1871-72)
Middlemarch
Henry Fielding (1749)
Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
The Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Madame Bovary
E. M. Forster (1924)
A Passage to India
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Elizabeth Gaskell (1853)
Cranford
Stella Gibbons (1932)
Cold Comfort Farm
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Günter Grass (1959)
The Tin Drum
Graham Greene (1938)
Brighton Rock
Thomas Hardy (1891)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Joseph Heller (1961)
Catch-22
Hermann Hesse (1943)
The Glass Bead Game
Victor Hugo (1862)
Les Miserables
Henry James (1881)
The Portrait of a Lady
James Joyce (1922)
Ulysses
Franz Kafka (1925)
The Trial
Jack Kerouac (1957)
On the Road
Milan Kundera (1984)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ian McEwan (2001)
Atonement
Harper Lee (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Laurie Lee (1959)
Cider with Rosie
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Doris Lessing (1962)
The Golden Notebook
Naguib Mahfouz (1956)
Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz (1957)
Palace of Desire
Naguib Mahfouz (1957)
Sugar Street
Herman Melville (1851)
Moby Dick
Middle Eastern Folk Tales - English Publication (1706-1721)
Arabian Nights
Toni Morrison (1987)
Beloved
Iris Murdoch (1954)
Under the Net
Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Lolita
V. S. Naipul (1979)
A Bend in the River
R. K. Narayan (1955)
Waiting for the Mahatma
Irene Nemirovsky (2004)
Suite Francaise
George Orwell (1949)
1984
Orhan Pamuk (1998)
My Name is Red
Boris Pasternak (1957)
Doctor Zhivago
Georges Perec (1978)
Life: A User's Manual
Anthony Powell (1951-1975)
A Dance to the Music of Time
Marcel Proust (1913)
In Search of Lost Time
Alexander Pushkin (1833)
Eugene Onegin
Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Jean Rhys (1966)
Wide Sargasso Sea
Samuel Richardson (1748)
Clarissa
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1955)
The Voyeur
Salman Rushdie (1981)
Midnight's Children
J.D. Salinger (1945)
The Catcher in the Rye
Jean Paul Sarte (1938)
Nausea
W.G. Sebald (2001)
Austerlitz
Murasaki Shikibu (1008)
The Tale of Genji
Muriel Spark (1961)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Mary Shelley (1818)
Frankenstein
John Steinbeck (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath
Stendhal (1830)
The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne (1759)
Tristram Shandy
Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jonathan Swift (1726)
Gulliver's Travels
Rabindranath Tagore (1916)
The Home and the World
J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
The Lord of the Rings
Leo Tolstoy (1878)
Anna Karenina
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)
The Leopard
Anthony Trollope (1855)
The Warden
Mark Twain (1884)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Anne Tyler (1982)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
John Updike (1960)
Rabbit, Run
John Updike (1971)
Rabbit Redux
John Updike (1981)
Rabbit is Rich
John Updike (1990)
Rabbit at Rest
Evelyn Waugh (1938)
Scoop
H.G. Wells (1898)
The War of the Worlds
Edith Wharton (1905)
The House of Mirth
P.G. Wodehouse (1938)
The Code of the Woosters
Virginia Woolf (1925)
Mrs. Dalloway
Émile Zola (1885)
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