Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert 1000 novels everyone must Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn read: the definitive list The Polygots by William Gerhardie Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol theguardian.com, Friday 23 January 2009 Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov 10.23 EST The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Brewster's Millions by Richard Greaves (George Barr Selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel McCutcheon) of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no Squire Haggard's Journal by Michael Green memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene decade and in any language. Originally published in Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and self, state of the nation, science fiction and The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni fantasy, war and travel – they appear here for the first Guareschi time in a single list. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Comedy Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgkins Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Money by Martin Amis I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal The Information by Martin Amis The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge The Mighty Walzer Howard by Jacobson Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome Barnes Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the The Castle by Franz Kafka Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor Howarth Bashford Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov Molloy by Samuel Beckett The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow René Lesage The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Changing Places by David Lodge Queen Lucia by EF Benson Nice Work by David Lodge The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd England, Their England by AG Macdonell The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen Illywhacker by Peter Carey Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by A Season in Sinji by JL Carr W Somerset Maugham The Harpole Report by JL Carr Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary Puckoon by Spike Milligan The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Charade by John Mortimer The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer Just William by Richmal Crompton Under the Net by Iris Murdoch The Provincial Lady by EM Delafield Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot La Disparition by Georges Perec A Fairy Tale of New York by JP Donleavy Les Revenentes by Georges Perec The Commitments by Roddy Doyle La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec Ennui by Maria Edgeworth My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunkett Cheese by Willem Elsschot A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym Caprice by Ronald Firbank Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler The Westminster Alice by Saki Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler The Unbearable Bassington by Saki Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler Hurrah for St Trinian's by Ronald Searle The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Great Apes by Will Self Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E Braddon Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel by Charles Simmons The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke Moo by Jane Smiley The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Greenmantle by John Buchan Tobias Smollett The Asphalt Jungle by WR Burnett The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain Smollett Double Indemnity by James M Cain The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias True History of the Ned Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Smollett The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Smollett The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark Chase The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie by Laurence Sterne The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie White Man Falling by Mike Stocks The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie Handley Cross by RS Surtees The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Penrod by Booth Tarkington A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle Thackeray The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut The Ipcress File by Len Deighton Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh Ratking by Michael Dibdin Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin Scoop by Evelyn Waugh Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Vendetta by Michael Dibdin The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Tono Bungay by HG Wells An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse The Crime of Father Amado by José Maria de Eça de Piccadilly Jim by PG Wodehouse Queiroz Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Heavy Weather by PG Wodehouse American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse LA Confidential by James Ellroy Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory Crime Sanctuary by William Faulkner Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Black and Blue by Ian Rankin Goldfinger by Ian Fleming The Hanging Gardens by Ian Rankin You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming Exit Music by Ian Rankin The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene Dissolution by CJ Sansom The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers The Third Man by Graham Greene Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Le Sayers A Time to Kill by John Grisham The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon The King of Torts by John Grisham The Blue Room by Georges Simenon Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett Wahloo The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout Fatherland by Robert Harris Perfume by Patrick Suskind Black Sunday by Thomas Harris The Secret History by Donna Tartt Red Dragon by Thomas Harris The Daughter