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Glaring omissions: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Invisible Man
THE LIST
50. A Fringe of Leaves (1976)
Patrick White
49. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Zora Neale Hurston
48. White Noise (1985)
Don DeLillo
47. Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Evelyn Waugh
46. The Corner That Held Them (1948)
Sylvia Townsend Warner
45. A Fine Balance (1995)
Rohinton Mistry
44. The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Saul Bellow
43. Rabbit, Run (1960)
John Updike
42. Regeneration (1991)
Pat Barker
41. Brave New World (1932)
Aldous Huxley
40. The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Ernest Hemingway
40. The Golden Notebook (1962)
Doris Lessing
38. Nights at the Circus (1984)
Angela Carter
37. Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
DH Lawrence
36. Blood Meridian (1985)
Cormac McCarthy
35. The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
JD Salinger
34. Never Mind (1992)
Edward St Aubyn
33. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
Ernest Hemingway
32. The Death of the Heart (1938)
Elizabeth Bowen
31. Olive Kitteridge (2008)
Elizabeth strout
30. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
Tom Wolfe
29. The Power and the Glory (1940)
Graham Greene
28. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955)
Patricia Highsmith
27. Wolf Hall (2009)
Patricia Highsmith
26. The Bell Jar (1963)
Sylvia Plath
25. The Color Purple (1982)
Alice Walker
24. Atonement (2001)
Ian McEwen
23. A House for Mr Biswas (1961)
V.S. Naipaul
22. The Blue Flower (1995)
Penelope Fitzgerald
21. Lord of the Flies (1954)
William Golding
20. Gilead (2004)
Marilynne Robinson
19. Disgrace (1999)
JM Coetzee
18. The God of Small Things (1997)
Arundhati Roy
17. A Suitable Boy (1993)
Vikram Seth
16. The Remains of the Day (1993)
Kazuo Ishiguro
15. Never Let Me Go (2005)
Kazuo Ishiguro
14. Housekeeping (1980)
Marilynne Robinson
13. A Passage to India (1924)
EM Forster
12. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Margaret Atwood
11. Giovanni’s Room (1956)
James Baldwin
10. Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Virginia Woolf
9. Things Fall Apart (1958)
Chinua Achebe
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
George Orwell
7. To the Lighthouse (1927)
Virginia Woolf
6. Lolita (1955)
Vladimir Nabokov
5. Beloved (1987)
Toni Morrison
4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Muriel Spark
3. Midnight’s Children (1981)
Salman Rushdie
2. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Jean Rhys
1. The Great Gatsby (1925)
Salman Rushdie
Glaring omissions: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Invisible Man
THE LIST
50. A Fringe of Leaves (1976)
Patrick White
49. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Zora Neale Hurston
48. White Noise (1985)
Don DeLillo
47. Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Evelyn Waugh
46. The Corner That Held Them (1948)
Sylvia Townsend Warner
45. A Fine Balance (1995)
Rohinton Mistry
44. The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Saul Bellow
43. Rabbit, Run (1960)
John Updike
42. Regeneration (1991)
Pat Barker
41. Brave New World (1932)
Aldous Huxley
40. The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Ernest Hemingway
40. The Golden Notebook (1962)
Doris Lessing
38. Nights at the Circus (1984)
Angela Carter
37. Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
DH Lawrence
36. Blood Meridian (1985)
Cormac McCarthy
35. The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
JD Salinger
34. Never Mind (1992)
Edward St Aubyn
33. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
Ernest Hemingway
32. The Death of the Heart (1938)
Elizabeth Bowen
31. Olive Kitteridge (2008)
Elizabeth strout
30. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
Tom Wolfe
29. The Power and the Glory (1940)
Graham Greene
28. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955)
Patricia Highsmith
27. Wolf Hall (2009)
Patricia Highsmith
26. The Bell Jar (1963)
Sylvia Plath
25. The Color Purple (1982)
Alice Walker
24. Atonement (2001)
Ian McEwen
23. A House for Mr Biswas (1961)
V.S. Naipaul
22. The Blue Flower (1995)
Penelope Fitzgerald
21. Lord of the Flies (1954)
William Golding
20. Gilead (2004)
Marilynne Robinson
19. Disgrace (1999)
JM Coetzee
18. The God of Small Things (1997)
Arundhati Roy
17. A Suitable Boy (1993)
Vikram Seth
16. The Remains of the Day (1993)
Kazuo Ishiguro
15. Never Let Me Go (2005)
Kazuo Ishiguro
14. Housekeeping (1980)
Marilynne Robinson
13. A Passage to India (1924)
EM Forster
12. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Margaret Atwood
11. Giovanni’s Room (1956)
James Baldwin
10. Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Virginia Woolf
9. Things Fall Apart (1958)
Chinua Achebe
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
George Orwell
7. To the Lighthouse (1927)
Virginia Woolf
6. Lolita (1955)
Vladimir Nabokov
5. Beloved (1987)
Toni Morrison
4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Muriel Spark
3. Midnight’s Children (1981)
Salman Rushdie
2. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Jean Rhys
1. The Great Gatsby (1925)
Salman Rushdie