Best Novels Written in English

According to the 2015 Observer List

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Author	Novel
John Bunyan	The Pilgrim's Progress
Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels
Samuel Richardson	Clarissa
Henry Fielding	Tom Jones
Laurence Sterne	Tristram Shandy
Jane Austen	Emma
Mary Shelley	Frankenstein
Thomas Love Peacock	Nightmare Abbey
Edgar Allen Poe	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Benjamin Disraeli	Sybil
Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights
William Thackeray	Vanity Fair
Charles Dickens	David Copperfield
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville	Moby Dick
Lewis Carrol	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Wilkie Collins	The Moonstone
Louisa May Alcott	Little Women
George Eliot	Middlemarch
Anthony Trollope	The Way We Live Now
Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped
Jerome K Jerome	Three Men in a Boat
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Sign of Four
Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray
George Gissing	New Grub Street
Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure
Stephen Crane	The Red Badge of Courage
Bram Stoker	Dracula
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness
Theodore Dresier	Sister Carrie
Rudyard Kipling	Kim
Jack London	The Call of the Wild
Henry James	The Golden Bowl
Frederick Rolfe	Hadrian the Seventh
Kenneth Grahame	The Wind in the Willows
HG Wells	The History of Mr Polly
Max Beerbohm	Zuleika Dobson
Ford Madox Ford	The Good Soldier
John Buchan	The Thirty-Nine Steps
DH Lawrence	The Rainbow
W Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage
Edith Wharton	The Age of Innocence
James Joyce	Ulysses
Sinclair Lewis	Babbitt
EM Forster	A Passage to India
Anita Loos	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Virginia Woolf	Mrs Dalloway
F Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby
Sylvia Townsend Warner	Lolly Willowes
Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises
Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon
William Faulkner	As I Lay Dying
Aldous Huxley	Brave New World
Stella Gibbons	Cold Comfort Farm
John Dos Passos	Nineteen Nineteen
Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer
Evelyn Waugh	Scoop
Samuel Beckett	Murphy
Raymond Chandler	The Big Sleep
Henry Green	Party Going
Flann O'Brien	At Swim-Two Birds
John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath
P.G. Wodehouse	Joy in the Morning
Robert Penn Warren	All the King's Men
Malcolm Lowry	Under the Volcano
Elizabeth Bowen	The Heat of the Day
George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty Four
Graham Greene	The End of the Affair
JD Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye
Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March
William Golding	Lord of the Flies
Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita
Jack Kerouac	On the Road
Patrick White	Voss
Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird
Muriel Spark	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Joseph Heller	Catch 22
Doris Lessing	The Golden Notebook
Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange
Christopher Isherwood	A Single Man
Truman Capote	In Cold Blood
Sylvia Plath	The Bell Jar
Phillip Roth	Portnoy's Complaint
Elizabeth Taylor	Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
John Updike	Rabbit Redux
Toni Morrison	Song of Solomon
VS Naipaul	A Bend in the River
Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children
Marilynne Robinson	Housekeeping
Martin Amis	Money: A Suicide Note
Kazuo Ishiguro	An Artist of the Floating World
Penelope Fitzgerald	The Beginning of Spring
Anne Tyler	Breathing Lessons
John McGahern	Amongst Women
Underworld	Don DeLillo
JM Coetzee	Disgrace
Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang