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The Great English-Language Novels

This list is inspired by The Atlantic's recent list of their Great American Novels. For this list, I'm not abiding by The Atlantic's strict rule that all books are published within the last 100 years (imagine the classics you'd have to leave out!) and thus have no time limit on their publication. I will make another list that does comply with that rule. So, I have 136 novels in chronological order, just like The Atlantic's list, but the one rule I imposed on myself, unlike The Atlantic, is to allow an author only one entry on the list. I'm sure many will disagree with some of my choices, but that's a great thing about reading. Enjoy!
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Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
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Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
5
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
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The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
8
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
9
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
10
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
11
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
12
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
13
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
14
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
15
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
16
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
17
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
18
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
19
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
20
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
21
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Robert Tressell)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Robert Tressell)
22
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
23
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
24
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
25
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
26
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
27
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway - 1929)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway - 1929)
28
Passing (Nella Larsen)
Passing (Nella Larsen)
29
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
30
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
31
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
32
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
33
It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis)
It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis)
34
U.S.A. (John Dos Passos)
U.S.A. (John Dos Passos)
35
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
36
At Swim-Two-Brids (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Brids (Flann O'Brien)
37
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
38
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
40
The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
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