100 Books to Love

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Sunday Times, 100 Books

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
392 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 British English
556 The Code of the Woosters P. G. Wodehouse 1938 British English
2452 Black Mischief Evelyn Waugh 1932 British English
1754 Changing Places David Lodge 1975 British English
241 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 American English
2454 Molesworth Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle 1953 British English
14983 How To Be A Woman Caitlin Moran 2011 British English
17119 Hope Shalom Auslander 2012 American English
421 A Visit From The Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010 American English
4628 Heartburn Nora Ephron 1983 American English
1111 Get Shorty Elmore Leonard 1990 American English
14983 The Ask Sam Lipsyte 2010 American English
17119 Dear Lupin Roger Mortimer, Charlie Mortimer 2011 British English
1895 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris 2000 American English
9261 Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart 2006 Russian English
370 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005 American English
1934 Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières 1994 British English
60 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 Nigerian English
103 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963 American English
2886 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 2002 American English
1160 Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami 1987 Japanese Japanese
1812 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 2003 British English
1000 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1991 American English
4518 Sour Sweet Timothy Mo 1982 British English
2582 Good Behaviour Molly Keane 1981 Irish English
13335 Last Orders Graham Swift 1996 British English
2387 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler 1988 American English
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
2903 What I Loved Siri Hustvedt 2003 American English
549 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 1995 Indian English
126 If This Is a Man Primo Levi 1947 Italian Italian
189 The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1898 American English
109 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 American English
279 The Secret History Donna Tartt 1992 American English
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
3875 We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 2003 American English
578 The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 1988 American English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
139 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1860 British English
2638 Fatherland Robert Harris 1992 British English
233 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré 1963 British English
120 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 American English
7042 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Simon Armitage 2007 British Middle english
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
968 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
84 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
349 The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
31 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 British English
2701 Close Range Annie Proulx 1999 American English
4789 Memento Mori Muriel Spark 1959 British English
1593 Good Morning, Midnight Jean Rhys 1939 British English
56 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1958 Italian Italian
54 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
23 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French French
1460 Never Mind Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
2972 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 2008 Indian English
27 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 British English
2115 Just Kids Patti Smith 2010 American English
1827 Experience Martin Amis 2000 British English
1621 Good-Bye to All That Robert Graves 1929 British English
1204 Nickel And Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 2001 American English
14787 Instead Of A Letter Diana Athill 1963 British English
670 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
4163 The Naked Civil Servant Quentin Crisp 1968 British English
17119 Stuart Alexander Masters 2005 British English
11867 Bad Blood Lorna Sage 2000 British English
1783 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers 2000 American English
1461 Oranges are not the only Fruit Jeanette Winterson 1985 British English
4979 The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal 2010 British English
17119 The Silent Woman Edward Marston 1994 British English
247 Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 British English
17119 Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller 2001 British English
17119 The Flaneur Edmund White 2001 American English
1142 Life of Pi Yann Martel 2001 Canadian English
732 A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979 Trinidadian English
9272 Naples 44 Norman Lewis 1978 British English
14232 Midnight In Sicily Peter Robb 1996 Italian English
17119 Mountains Of The Mind Robert Macfarlane 2003 British English
73 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 1881 American English
105 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1847 British English
390 The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1908 British English
92 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 American English
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
15899 The Eagle Of The Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff 1954 British English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
192 Persuasion Jane Austen 1817 British English
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
575 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948 British English
397 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 2009 British English
28 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
2002 Freedom Jonathan Franzen 2010 American English
276 Life, a User's Manual Georges Perec 1978 French French
116 A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert 1869 French French
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
442 The Magus John Fowles 1965 British English
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
452 A Heart So White Javier Marias 1992 Spanish Spanish
1958 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 2009 Irish English
121 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1852 British English