Waterstone Books 100 Best 20th Century English Novels(UK)

 

The Lord Of The Rings. J. R. R. Tolkien
1984. George Orwell
Animal Farm. George Orwell
Ulysses. James Joyce
Catch-22. Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye. J. D. Salinger
To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee
One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Grapes Of Wrath. John Steinbeck
Trainspotting. Irvine Welsh
Wild Swans. Jung Chang
The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lord Of The Flies. William Golding
On The Road. Jack Kerouac
Brave New World. Aldous Huxley
The Wind In The Willows. Kenneth Grahame
Winnie The Pooh. A. A. Milne
The Colour Purple. Alice Walker
The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien
The Outsider. Albert Camus
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. C. S. Lewis
The Trial. Franz Kafka
Gone With The Wind. Margaret Mitchell
The Hitchhiker´S Guide To The Galaxy. Douglas Adams
Midnight´S Children. Salman Rushdie
The Diary Of Anne Frank. Anne Frank
A Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess
Sons And Lovers. D. H. Lawrence
To The Lighthouse. Virginia Woolf
If This Is A Man. Primo Levi
Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
The Wasp Factory. Iain Banks
A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu. Marcel Proust
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Roald Dahl
Of Mice And Men. John Steinbeck
Beloved. Toni Morrison
Possession. A. S. Byatt
The Heart Of Darkness. Joseph Conrad
A Passage To India. E. M. Forster
Watership Down. Richard Adams
Sophie´S World. Jostein Gaarder
The Name Of The Rose. Umberto Eco
Love In A Time Of Cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rebecca. Daphne Du Maurier
The Remains Of The Day. Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. Milan Kundera
Birdsong. Sebastian Faulks
Howard´S End. E. M. Forster
Brideshead Revisited. Evelyn Waugh
A Suitable Boy. Vikram Seth
Dune. Frank Herbert
A Prayer For Owen Meany. John Irvine
Perfume. Patrick Süskind
Doctor Zhivago. Boris Pasternak
Gormenghast. Mervyn Peake
Cider With Rosie. Laurie Lee
The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath
The Handmaid´S Tale. Margaret Atwood
Testament Of Youth. Vera Brittain
The Magus. John Fowles
Brighton Rock. Graham Greene
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. Robert Tressell
The Master And Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov
Tales From The City. Armistead Maupin
The French Lieutenant´S Woman. John Fowles
Captain Corelli´s Mandolin. Louis De Bernières
Slaughterhouse 5. Kurt Vonnegut
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance. Robert Pirsig
A Room With A View. E. M. Forster
Lucky Jim. Kingsley Amis
It. Stephen King
The Power And The Glory. Graham Greene
The Stand. Stephen King
All Quiet On The Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Roddy Doyle
Matilda. Roald Dahl
American Psycho. Bret Easton Ellis
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Hunter S. Thompson
A Brief History Of Time. Stephen Hawking
James And The Giant Peach. Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley´S Lover. D. H. Lawrence
The Bonfire Of The Vanities. Tom Wolfe
Complete Cookery Course. Delia Smith
An Evil Cradling. Brian Keenan
The Rainbow. D. H. Lawrence
Down And Out In Paris And London. George Orwell
2001 - A Space Odyssey. Arthur C. Clarke
The Tin Drum. Günter Grass
A Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Long Walk To Freedom. Nelson Mandela
The Selfish Gene. Richard Dawkins
Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton
The Alexandria Quartet. Lawrence Durrell
Cry The Beloved Country. Alan Paton
High Fidelity. Nick Hornby
The Van. Roddy Doyle
The Bfg. Roald Dahl
Earthly Powers. Anthony Burgess
I, Claudius. Robert Graves
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans

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