1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

What are the 1000 best nov­els? The Guardian thinks it knows. This list was put togeth­er by The Guardian’s review team and a pan­el of experts. As you’ll see, the defin­i­tive list is help­ful­ly sub­di­vid­ed into themes: love, crime, com­e­dy, fam­i­ly and self, state of the nation, sci­ence fic­tion and fan­ta­sy, war and trav­el.

On that note, I should also high­light a col­lec­tion of Life-Chang­ing Books put togeth­er by our read­ers. You’ll find many good reads here as well.


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  • Anthony says:

    1000 is too many.…it’s too much of a list and not one that is real­is­ti­cal­ly read­able. Then again…maybe that is the point.

  • The list has J K Rawl­ings on the same list with Cor­mac McCarthy and Mar­garet Atwood, among oth­ers. THe Har­ry Pot­ter series was won­der­ful, but Rawl­ings does­n’t write near­ly well enough to be on this list.

  • Mark says:

    It’s “Rowl­ing,” for Pete’s sake: “Rowl­ing.”

  • manoman says:

    what?

  • Anon says:

    The defin­i­tive list appears to con­tain 998 works. What are the miss­ing 2?

  • max22 says:

    The miss­ing two spots are for the books I am about to write. Im prob­a­bly the best writer ever, so they will obviosly be at the top of the list.

    Good ques­tion. They should change the name to the 998 “Nov­els every­one must read”. That is until Iwrite my books.

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