No list is going to get it right and that is fine. Dune by Frank Herbert should have made the list but they thought otherwise. This list is missing some classics that I thought would be a shoe-in. Popularity doesn’t always mean better and yet the one of the author of the article said it was a toss-up between the two. The list includes some classics and then picks lesser-known works by famous authors.Įmma by Jane Austin is nowhere near as popular or well known as Pride and Prejudice and yet it ranks fairly higher. Even the top ten includes many books that are foreign to me. There are a lot of books on this list that I have not read and cannot say much about. 94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie.93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera.91. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro.87. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.84. Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee.82. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.81. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer.80. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge.78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré.77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor.76. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.73. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.67. The Quiet American by Graham Greene.66. Lord of the Flies by William Golding.57. The Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford.51. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine.50. Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway.44. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.43. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.41. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.40. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.38. The Call of the Wild by Jack London.37. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.35. The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith.34. The Picture of Dorian by Gray Oscar Wilde.32. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 26. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope.24. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.23. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.20. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.19. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.16. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.14. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.13. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal.12. The Black Sheep by Honoré De Balzac.11. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock.8. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos.4. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.The Guardian’s 100 Greatest Novels of All Time The Guardian’s 010 greatest novels of all time.

Emma by charlotte brontë