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Best Novels Written in English

According to the 2015 Observer List
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Author
Novel
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Samuel Richardson
Clarissa
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy
Jane Austen
Emma
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Thomas Love Peacock
Nightmare Abbey
Edgar Allen Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Benjamin Disraeli
Sybil
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
William Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Lewis Carrol
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
George Eliot
Middlemarch
Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
Jerome K Jerome
Three Men in a Boat
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
George Gissing
New Grub Street
Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Bram Stoker
Dracula
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Theodore Dresier
Sister Carrie
Rudyard Kipling
Kim
Jack London
The Call of the Wild
Henry James
The Golden Bowl
Frederick Rolfe
Hadrian the Seventh
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
HG Wells
The History of Mr Polly
Max Beerbohm
Zuleika Dobson
Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier
John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps
DH Lawrence
The Rainbow
W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
James Joyce
Ulysses
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
EM Forster
A Passage to India
Anita Loos
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
Author
Novel
F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lolly Willowes
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm
John Dos Passos
Nineteen Nineteen
Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
Evelyn Waugh
Scoop
Samuel Beckett
Murphy
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
Henry Green
Party Going
Flann O'Brien
At Swim-Two Birds
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
P.G. Wodehouse
Joy in the Morning
Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men
Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcano
Elizabeth Bowen
The Heat of the Day
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty Four
Graham Greene
The End of the Affair
JD Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
Patrick White
Voss
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Joseph Heller
Catch 22
Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
Christopher Isherwood
A Single Man
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Phillip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint
Elizabeth Taylor
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
John Updike
Rabbit Redux
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
VS Naipaul
A Bend in the River
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping
Martin Amis
Money: A Suicide Note
Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Beginning of Spring
Anne Tyler
Breathing Lessons
John McGahern
Amongst Women
Underworld
Don DeLillo
JM Coetzee
Disgrace
Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang
2 Comments
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Level 62
Feb 28, 2022
Wow, very challenging. Got 25, have read 21 of these. You have misspelled Gatsby.
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Level 17
Feb 28, 2022
Thanks! Will Change!