The Observer's The 100 Greatest Novels of all Time

1. Don Quixote (1605)
2. Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
3. Robinson Crusoe (1719)
4. Gulliver's Travels (1726)
5. Tom Jones (1749)
6. Clarissa (1748)
7. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1859-1867)
8. Dangerous Liaisons (1782)
9. Emma (1815)
10. Frankenstein (1818)
11. Nightmare Abbey (1818)
12. The Black Sheep (1842)
13. The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
14. The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-1846)
15. Sybil (1845)
16. David Copperfield (1849-1850)
17. Wuthering Heights (1847)
18. Jane Eyre (1847)
19. Vanity Fair (1847-1848)
20. The Scarlet Letter (1850)
21. Moby-Dick (1851)
22. Madame Bovary (1856)
23. The Woman in White (1859)
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1865)
25. Little Women (1868-1869)
26. The Way We Live Now (1875)
27. Anna Karenina (1877)
28. Daniel Deronda (1877)
29. The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
30. The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
31. Huckleberry Finn (1885)
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
33. Three Men in a Boat (1889)
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
35. The Diary of a Nobody (1888-1889)
36. Jude the Obscure (1895)
37. The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
38. The Call of the Wild (1903)
39. Nostromo (1904)
40. The Wind in the Willows (1908)
41. Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927)
42. The Rainbow (1915)
43. The Good Soldier (1915)
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
45. Ulysses (1922)
46. Mrs Dalloway (1925)
47. A Passage to India (1924)
48. The Great Gatsby (1925)
49. The Trial (1925)
50. Men without Women (1927)
51. Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
52. As I Lay Dying (1930)
53. Brave New World (1932)
54. Scoop (1938)
55. U.S.A. (1930-1936)
56. The Big Sleep (1939)
57. The Pursuit of Love (1945)
58. The Plague (1947)
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
60. Malone Dies (1951)
61. The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
62. Wise Blood (1952)
63. Charlotte’s Web (1952)
64. The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955)
65. Lucky Jim (1954)
66. Lord of the Flies (1954)
67. The Quiet American (1955)
68. On the Road (1957)
69. Lolita (1955)
70. The Tin Drum (1959)
71. Things Fall Apart (1959)
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962)
73. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
74. Catch-22 (1961)
75. Herzog (1964)
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971)
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
79. Song of Solomon (1978)
80. The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
81. The Executioner's Song (1980)
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (1979)
83. A Bend in the River (1979)
84. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
85. Housekeeping (1980)
86. Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981)
87. The New York Trilogy (1987)
88. The BFG (1982)
89. The Periodic Table (1975)
90. Money (1984)
91. An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
92. Oscar And Lucinda (1988)
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
95. L.A. Confidential (1990)
96. Wise Children (1991)
97. Atonement (2002)
98. Northern Lights (1995)
99. American Pastoral (1997)
100. Austerlitz (2001)