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100 Greatest British Novels - BBC Culture Poll

In December 2015, 82 book critics from a variety of countries, excluding the UK, were polled by BBC Culture to see what the rest of the world considered as the greatest British novels. How many can you name?
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Novel
P G Wodehouse
1938
The Code of the Woosters
Ali Smith
2011
There but for the
Malcolm Lowry
1947
Under the Volcano
C S Lewis
1949-54
The Chronicles of Narnia
Doris Lessing
1974
Memoirs of a Survivor
Hanif Kureishi
1990
The Buddha of Suburbia
James Hogg
1824
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
William Golding
1954
Lord of the Flies
Stella Gibbons
1932
Cold Comfort Farm
John Galsworthy
1922
The Forsyte Saga
Wilkie Collins
1859
The Woman in White
Joyce Cary
1944
The Horse's Mouth
Elizabeth Bowen
1938
The Death of the Heart
Arnold Bennett
1908
The Old Wives Tale
Sybille Bedford
1956
A Legacy
Pat Barker
1991-95
Regeneration Trilogy
Evelyn Waugh
1938
Scoop
Anthony Trollope
1857
Barchester Towers
Edward St Aubyn
1992-2012
The Patrick Melrose Novels
Paul Scott
1966
The Jewel in the Crown
Barbara Pym
1952
Excellent Women
Philip Pullman
1995-2000
His Dark Materials
V S Naipaul
1961
A House for Mr Biswas
W Somerset Maugham
1915
Of Human Bondage
Andrea Levy
2004
Small Island
D H Lawrence
1920
Women in Love
Thomas Hardy
1886
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Penelope Fitzgerald
1995
The Blue Flower
Graham Greene
1948
The Heart of the Matter
Jane Gardam
2004
Old Filth
George Eliot
1876
Daniel Deronda
Joseph Conrad
1904
Nostromo
Anthony Burgess
1962
A Clockwork Orange
J G Ballard
1973
Crash
Jane Austen
1811
Sense and Sensibility
Virginia Woolf
1928
Orlando
Anthony Trollope
1875
The Way We Live Now
Muriel Spark
1961
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
George Orwell
1945
Animal Farm
Iris Murdoch
1978
The Sea, The Sea
D H Lawrence
1913
Sons and Lovers
Alan Hollinghurst
2004
The Line of Beauty
Henry Green
1945
Loving
Ford Madox Ford
1924-28
Parade's End
Jeanette Winterson
1985
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jonathan Swift
1726
Gulliver's Travels
Zadie Smith
2012
NW
Jean Rhys
1966
Wide Sargasso Sea
George Gissing
1891
New Grub Street
Thomas Hardy
1891
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Author
 
Novel
E M Forster
1924
A Passage to India
A S Byatt
1990
Possession
Kingsley Amis
1954
Lucky Jim
Laurence Stern
1759
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Salman Rushdie
1981
Midnight's Children
Sarah Waters
2009
The Little Stranger
Hilary Mantel
2009
Wolf Hall
Alan Hollinghurst
1988
The Swimming Pool Library
Graham Greene
1938
Brighton Rock
Charles Dickens
1848
Dombey and Son
Lewis Carroll
1865
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Julian Barnes
2011
The Sense of an Ending
Jeanette Winterson
1987
The Passion
Evelyn Waugh
1928
Decline and Fall
Anthony Powell
1951-75
A Dance to the Music of Time
Tom McCarthy
2005
Remainder
Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
Never Let Me Go
Kenneth Grahame
1908
The Wind in the Willows
E M Forster
1908
A Room with a View
Graham Greene
1951
The End of the Affair
Daniel Defoe
1722
Moll Flanders
Monica Ali
2003
Brick Lane
Charlotte Bronte
1853
Villette
Daniel Defoe
1719
Robinson Crusoe
J R R Tolkien
1954
The Lord of the Rings
Zadie Smith
2000
White Teeth
Doris Lessing
1962
The Golden Notebook
Thomas Hardy
1895
Jude the Obscure
Henry Fielding
1749
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Joseph Conrad
1899
Heart of Darkness
Jane Austen
1817
Persuasion
Jane Austen
1815
Emma
Kazuo Ishiguro
1989
Remains of the Day
E M Forster
1910
Howards End
Virginia Woolf
1931
The Waves
Ian McEwan
2001
Atonement
Samuel Richardson
1748
Clarissa
Ford Madox Ford
1915
The Good Soldier
George Orwell
1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Jane Austen
1813
Pride and Prejudice
William Makepeace Thackeray
1848
Vanity Fair
Mary Shelley
1818
Frankenstein
Charles Dickens
1850
David Copperfield
Emily Bronte
1847
Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens
1853
Bleak House
Charlotte Bronte
1847
Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens
1861
Great Expectations
Virginia Woolf
1925
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
1927
To The Lighthouse
George Eliot
1874
Middlemarch
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