The Guardian, 997 Books

Selected by the Guardian’s Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any decade and in any language. Originally published in thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel – they appear here for the first time in a single list.

Who Voted?
There's not a lot of concrete information about the exact number of critics who voted. If we go by the critics mentioned on many of the summaries of the books, and how many editors at the guardian at the time, I think a safe assumption would be 40 people worked on this list. If anyone has any additional information please let me know.

This list was originally published in 2009 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

This list has a weight of 70%. To learn more about what this means please visit the Rankings page.

Here is a list of what is decreasing the importance of this list:

• List: contains over 500 books(Quantity over Quality)
• List: only covers mostly "Western Canon" books
• Voters: are mostly from a single country/location
• Voters: Unknown Names

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Number of Voters:

40

Voter Count Unknown:

No

Voter Names Unknown:

Yes

High Quality Source:

No

Location Specific:

No

Category Specific:

No