A list of the '100 Greatest Novels of All Time,' selected by writers and critics, has been published.
The Guardian, a major British daily newspaper, has published its 'Top 100 Novels of All Time,' compiled from a survey of over 170 novelists, critics, and scholars.
The 100 best novels of all time | Fiction | The Guardian
Who's in, who's out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 best novels list | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/16/story-behind-100-best-novels-all-time
◆100th Place: ' My Antonia ' by Willa Cather
◆99th Place: ' The Boy Who Watched Love ' by L.P. Hartley
◆98th Place: * The Road * by Cormac McCarthy
◆97th Place: ' Catch-22 ' by Joseph Heller
◆96th place: ' Pedro Páramo ' by Juan Rulfo
◆95th place: ' Coming Home ' by Thomas Hardy
◆94th Place: ' Worlds Not on the Map ' by Edward P. Jones
◆93rd Place: ' Invisible Cities ' by Italo Calvino
◆92nd Place: ' Sentimental Education ' by Gustave Flaubert
◆91st Place: ' Life and Destiny ' by Vasily Grossman
◆90th Place: * Jacob's Room * by Virginia Woolf
◆89th Place: * The Left Hand of Darkness * by Ursula K. Le Guin
◆88th place: Ragtime by El. Doctorow
◆87th Place: ' The Line of Beauty ' by Alan Hollinghurst
◆86th Place: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
◆85th place: ' The Vegetarian ' by Han Kang
◆84th place: 'The
◆83rd Place: ' A Farewell to Arms ' by Ernest Hemingway
◆82nd Place: ' The End of the Affair ' by Graham Greene
◆81st Place: ' Buddenbrooks' by Thomas Mann
◆80th place: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
◆79th Place: ' Go Up the Mountain and Tell the Announcement ' by James Baldwin
◆78th Place: ' A House for Mr. Biswas ' by V.S. Naipaul
◆77th Place: ' The Rainbow ' by D.H. Lawrence
◆76th place: ' Dracula ' by Bram Stoker
◆75th Place: ' The Bluest Eye ' by Toni Morrison
◆74th Place: * Nervous Conditions * by Tsitsi Dangalenbuga
◆73rd Place: ' Austerlitz ' by W.G. Sebald
◆72nd Place: ' Our Common Friend ' by Charles Dickens
◆71st Place: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
◆70th Place: ' Jude the Outcast ' by Thomas Jude
◆69th place: Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
◆68th Place: *
◆67th Place: ' The Man Without Qualities ' by Robert Musil
◆66th place: ' The Master and Margarita ' by Mikhail Bulgakov
◆65th Place: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
◆64th Place: ' The Good Soldier ' by Ford Madox Ford
◆63rd Place: ' White Teeth ' by Zadie Smith
◆62nd Place: ' Half of the Yellow Sun ' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
◆61st Place: ' The Rings of Saturn ' by W.G. Sebald
◆60th Place: * Howards End * by E.M. Forster
◆59th Place: ' Never Let Me Go ' by Kazuo Ishiguro
◆58th place: “ Shame ” by J.M. Coetzee
◆57th Place: ' The Sound and the Fury ' by William Faulkner
◆56th Place:
◆55th Place: The Wave by Virginia Woolf
◆54th place: * Orlando * by Virginia Woolf
◆53rd Place: * The Transit of Venus * by Shirley Hazard
◆52nd Place: ' The Golden Goblet ' by Henry James
◆51st Place: ' Lila and I ' by Elena Ferrante
◆50th Place: ' The Wide Sargasso Sea ' by Jean Rhys
◆49th Place: ' A Fine Balance ' by Rohinton Mistry
◆48th place: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
◆47th Place: ' Vanity Fair ' by William Makepeace Thackeray
◆46th Place: ' The Leopard ' by Tomasi di Lampedusa
◆45th Place: * The Golden Notebook * by Doris Lessing
◆44th Place: ' Giovanni's Room ' by James Baldwin
◆43rd Place: Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson
◆42nd Place: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
◆41st Place: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
◆40th Place: * The Song of Solomon * by Toni Morrison
◆39th Place: ' Their Eyes Saw God ' by Zora Neale Hurston
◆38th Place: ' The Age of Innocence ' by Edith Wharton
◆37th Place: 'The Invisible Man ' by Ralph Ellison
◆36th Place: * The Handmaid's Tale * by Margaret Atwood
◆35th Place: * Great Expectations * by Charles Dickens
◆34th Place: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
◆33rd Place: * David Copperfield * by Charles Dickens
◆32nd Place: ' The God of the Little Things ' by Arundhati Roy
◆31st Place: ' The Story of Miss Broudie ' by Muriel Spark
◆30th Place: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
◆29th Place: ' Pale Fire ' by Vladimir Nabokov
◆28th Place: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
◆27th Place: '
◆26th Place: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
◆25th Place: ' Lolita ' by Vladimir Nabokov
◆24th Place: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
◆23rd Place: ' Midnight Children ' by Salman Rushdie
◆22nd Place: ' Falling Bonds ' by Chinua Achebe
◆21st Place: Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
◆20th Place: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
◆19th Place: * Tristram Shandy * by Laurence Sterne
◆18th Place: ' Persuasion ' by Jane Austen
◆17th Place: ' One Hundred Years of Solitude ' by Gabriel García Márquez
◆16th Place: ' Nineteen Eighty-Four ' by George Orwell
◆15th Place: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
◆14th Place: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
◆13th Place: Emma by Jane Austen
◆12th Place: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
◆11th Place: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
◆10th Place: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
◆9th Place: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
◆8th Place:
◆7th Place: * War and Peace * by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
◆6th Place: Anna Karenina by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
◆5th Place: 'In Search of Lost Time ' by Marcel Proust
◆4th Place: * To the Lighthouse * by Virginia Woolf
◆3rd Place: * Ulysses * by James Joyce
◆2nd Place: Beloved by Toni Morrison
◆1st Place: * Middlemarch * by George Eliot
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