1 Middlemarch by George Eliot 2 Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 3 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 4 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 5 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 6 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 7 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8 Disgrace by JM Coetzee 9 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 10 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 11 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 12 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 13 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 14 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 15 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse 16 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 17 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 18 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 19 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 20 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 21 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 22 A Passage to India by EM Forster 23 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 24 Ulysses by James Joyce 25 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 26 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 27 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 28 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 29 La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec 30 Atonement by Ian McEwan 31 Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky 32 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell 33 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 34 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 35 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 36 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 37 The Warden by Anthony Trollope 38 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 39 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 40 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 41 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 42 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 43 The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike 44 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 45 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet 46 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 47 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 48 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin 49 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 50 Beloved by Toni Morrison 51 Underworld by Don DeLillo 52 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 53 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 54 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 55 Austerlitz by WG Sebald 56 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass 57 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse 58 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño 59 London Fields by Martin Amis 60 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 61 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 62 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 63 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 64 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 65 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 66 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 67 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul 68 Crash by JG Ballard 69 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino 70 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 71 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin 72 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler 73 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 74 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan 75 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee 76 The Trial by Franz Kafka 77 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 78 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 79 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 80 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 81 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 82 The Stranger by Albert Camus 83 Germinal by Emile Zola 84 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal 86 Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac 87 On The Road by Jack Kerouac 88 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 89 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing 90 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 91 The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 92 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 93 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré 94 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 95 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 96 One Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous 97 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 98 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore 99 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 100 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien