100 Greatest Novels (Observer) Pt. 1

Explore the Observer's 100 Greatest Novels (Part 1) featuring a curated list of timeless literary masterpieces. Discover must-read books that shaped literature.

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Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.
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Clarissa

by Samuel Richardson

"Oh thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!" Pressured by her unscrupulous family to …
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

A novel about writing a novel is the subject of this complex classic which has been described as the greatest shaggy dog story in the …
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Emma

by Jane Austen

Introduction by A. Walton Litz “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best …
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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed …
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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Relates a sailor's preparation for and execution of revenge against the three men responsible for his fifteen years in prison.
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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

'The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an …
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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death …
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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

An orphan girl who accepts employment as a governess finds herself involved in a family secret and in love with her employer.
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Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
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The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’ classic tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME “There, in …
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Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

In New England during the Civil War, four sisters experience joys and hardships together.