100 Greatest British Novels - BBC Culture Poll

In December 2015, 82 book critics from a variety of countries, excluding the UK, were polled by BBC Culture to see what the rest of the world considered as the greatest British novels. How many can you name?

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Author		Novel
P G Wodehouse	1938	The Code of the Woosters
Ali Smith	2011	There but for the
Malcolm Lowry	1947	Under the Volcano
C S Lewis	1949-54	The Chronicles of Narnia
Doris Lessing	1974	Memoirs of a Survivor
Hanif Kureishi	1990	The Buddha of Suburbia
James Hogg	1824	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
William Golding	1954	Lord of the Flies
Stella Gibbons	1932	Cold Comfort Farm
John Galsworthy	1922	The Forsyte Saga
Wilkie Collins	1859	The Woman in White
Joyce Cary	1944	The Horse's Mouth
Elizabeth Bowen	1938	The Death of the Heart
Arnold Bennett	1908	The Old Wives Tale
Sybille Bedford	1956	A Legacy
Pat Barker	1991-95	Regeneration Trilogy
Evelyn Waugh	1938	Scoop
Anthony Trollope	1857	Barchester Towers
Edward St Aubyn	1992-2012	The Patrick Melrose Novels
Paul Scott	1966	The Jewel in the Crown
Barbara Pym	1952	Excellent Women
Philip Pullman	1995-2000	His Dark Materials
V S Naipaul	1961	A House for Mr Biswas
W Somerset Maugham	1915	Of Human Bondage
Andrea Levy	2004	Small Island
D H Lawrence	1920	Women in Love
Thomas Hardy	1886	The Mayor of Casterbridge
Penelope Fitzgerald	1995	The Blue Flower
Graham Greene	1948	The Heart of the Matter
Jane Gardam	2004	Old Filth
George Eliot	1876	Daniel Deronda
Joseph Conrad	1904	Nostromo
Anthony Burgess	1962	A Clockwork Orange
J G Ballard	1973	Crash
Jane Austen	1811	Sense and Sensibility
Virginia Woolf	1928	Orlando
Anthony Trollope	1875	The Way We Live Now
Muriel Spark	1961	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
George Orwell	1945	Animal Farm
Iris Murdoch	1978	The Sea, The Sea
D H Lawrence	1913	Sons and Lovers
Alan Hollinghurst	2004	The Line of Beauty
Henry Green	1945	Loving
Ford Madox Ford	1924-28	Parade's End
Jeanette Winterson	1985	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jonathan Swift	1726	Gulliver's Travels
Zadie Smith	2012	NW
Jean Rhys	1966	Wide Sargasso Sea
George Gissing	1891	New Grub Street
Thomas Hardy	1891	Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Author		Novel
E M Forster	1924	A Passage to India
A S Byatt	1990	Possession
Kingsley Amis	1954	Lucky Jim
Laurence Stern	1759	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Salman Rushdie	1981	Midnight's Children
Sarah Waters	2009	The Little Stranger
Hilary Mantel	2009	Wolf Hall
Alan Hollinghurst	1988	The Swimming Pool Library
Graham Greene	1938	Brighton Rock
Charles Dickens	1848	Dombey and Son
Lewis Carroll	1865	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Julian Barnes	2011	The Sense of an Ending
Jeanette Winterson	1987	The Passion
Evelyn Waugh	1928	Decline and Fall
Anthony Powell	1951-75	A Dance to the Music of Time
Tom McCarthy	2005	Remainder
Kazuo Ishiguro	2005	Never Let Me Go
Kenneth Grahame	1908	The Wind in the Willows
E M Forster	1908	A Room with a View
Graham Greene	1951	The End of the Affair
Daniel Defoe	1722	Moll Flanders
Monica Ali	2003	Brick Lane
Charlotte Bronte	1853	Villette
Daniel Defoe	1719	Robinson Crusoe
J R R Tolkien	1954	The Lord of the Rings
Zadie Smith	2000	White Teeth
Doris Lessing	1962	The Golden Notebook
Thomas Hardy	1895	Jude the Obscure
Henry Fielding	1749	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Joseph Conrad	1899	Heart of Darkness
Jane Austen	1817	Persuasion
Jane Austen	1815	Emma
Kazuo Ishiguro	1989	Remains of the Day
E M Forster	1910	Howards End
Virginia Woolf	1931	The Waves
Ian McEwan	2001	Atonement
Samuel Richardson	1748	Clarissa
Ford Madox Ford	1915	The Good Soldier
George Orwell	1949	Nineteen Eighty-Four
Jane Austen	1813	Pride and Prejudice
William Makepeace Thackeray	1848	Vanity Fair
Mary Shelley	1818	Frankenstein
Charles Dickens	1850	David Copperfield
Emily Bronte	1847	Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens	1853	Bleak House
Charlotte Bronte	1847	Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens	1861	Great Expectations
Virginia Woolf	1925	Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf	1927	To The Lighthouse
George Eliot	1874	Middlemarch

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