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The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list

Contents:

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen, Orlando Virginia Woolf, Animal Farm George Orwell, Sons and Lovers DH Lawrence, The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst, Loving Henry Green, NW Zadie Smith, Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys, New Grub Street George Gissing, Possession AS Byatt, Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis, Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel, Brighton Rock Graham Greene, Dombey and Son Charles Dickens, The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes, The Passion Jeanette Winterson, Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh, Remainder Tom McCarthy, The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame, The End of the Affair Graham Greene, Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe, Brick Lane Monica Ali, Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe, White Teeth Zadie Smith, The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing, Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy, The Call of the Wild.

Nostromo Joseph Conrad Conrad's masterpiece: The Wind in the Willows.

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Probably the longest novel on this list. Lawrence Novels seized by the police, like this one, have a special afterlife. Ulysses James Joyce Also pursued by the British police, this is a novel more discussed than read.

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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The quintessential Jazz Age novel. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway He is remembered for his novels, but it was the short stories that first attracted notice. Nineteen Nineteen the second book in the trilogy. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell This tale of one man's struggle against totalitarianism has been appropriated the world over.

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Malone Dies Samuel Beckett Part of a trilogy of astonishing monologues in the black comic voice of the author of Waiting for Godot. Catcher in the Rye J.

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Salinger A week in the life of Holden Caulfield. A cult novel that still mesmerises.

Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis An astonishing debut: Lord of the Flies William Golding Schoolboys become savages: Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Humbert Humbert's obsession with Lolita is a tour de force of style and narrative. A classic of African literature.

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Read John Sutherland on Lee's and other American classics. Catch Joseph Heller 'He would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them.

If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Herzog Saul Bellow Adultery and nervous breakdown in Chicago.

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Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women. Lanark Alasdair Gray Seething vision of Glasgow. In , the Times set out to determine the 50 Greatest British Writers since Only a quarter of them were women. Earlier this year, when that same newspaper offered up another list — Novels Everyone Should Read — women authors accounted for only three of the top 10 books, and a dismal 19 of the full When he revealed his all-time top 10 in August, he named four novels by women.

In all, however, works by female authors accounted for only one in five of his chosen titles.

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For starters, it focuses strictly on British rather than international or English-language literature. Yet these differences fail to explain why our poll would yield more works by women — far from it. Divided more or less equally in terms of their gender, its critics hail from countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Denmark and India.

Happily, the sheer range of work by women authors in this poll dooms most attempts at generalisation.