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Authors of the 100 Greatest Novels

Name the authors of the best literature published in English, as compiled by the Guardian in 2026.
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Rank
Title
Author
100
My Antonia
Willa Cather
99
The Go-Between
LP Hartley
98
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
97
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
96
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
95
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
94
The Known World
Edward P Jones
93
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
92
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
91
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
90
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
89
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K Le Guin
88
Ragtime
EL Doctorow
87
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
86
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
85
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
84
The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
83
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
82
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
81
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
80
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
79
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
78
A House for Mr Biswar
VS Naipaul
77
The Rainbow
DH Lawrence
76
Dracula
Bram Stoker
75
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
74
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga
73
Austerlitz
WG Sebald
72
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
71
Kindred
Octavia E Butler
70
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
69
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
68
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
67
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
66
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
65
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
64
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
63
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
62
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
61
The Rings of Saturn
WG Sebald
60
Howards End
EM Forster
59
Never Let me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
58
Disgrace
JM Coetzee
57
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
56
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
55
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
54
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
53
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
52
The Golden Bowl
Henry James
51
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
50
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
49
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
48
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
47
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
46
The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
45
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
44
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
43
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
42
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
41
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
40
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
39
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
38
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
37
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
36
The Handmaid's Tale
Margareth Atwood
35
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
34
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
33
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
32
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
31
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
30
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
29
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
28
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
27
The Trial
Franz Kafka
26
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
25
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
24
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
23
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
22
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
21
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
20
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
19
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne
18
Persuasion
Jane Austen
17
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
16
1984
George Orwell
15
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
14
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
13
Emma
Jane Austen
12
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
11
The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
10
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
9
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
8
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
7
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
6
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
5
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
4
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
3
Ulysses
James Joyce
2
Beloved
Toni Morrison
1
Middlemarch
George Eliot
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