List :: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph

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  #21

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

  by George Orwell

  (68 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 3

  946 points

  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

  

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  #22

  A Passage to India

  by E. M. Forster

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 24

  469 points

  "Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."

  

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  #23

  Madame Bovary

  by Gustave Flaubert

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 48

  322 points

  "Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."

  

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  #24

  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 4

  925 points

  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

  

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  #25

  The Moonstone

  by Wilkie Collins

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 278

  76 points

  "In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: 'Now I saw, though too late, The Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and..."

  

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  #26

  Cranford

  by Elizabeth Gaskell

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 288

  75 points

  "In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women."

  

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  #27

  Frankenstein

  by Mary Shelley

  (30 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 84

  219 points

  "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."

  

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  #28

  Tom Jones

  by Henry Fielding

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 68

  255 points

  "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."

  

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  #29

  Life

  by Georges Perec

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 152

  130 points

  " PreambleTo begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance....PART ONE, CHAPTER ONEYes, it could begin this way, right here, just like that, in a rather slow and ponderous way, in..."

  

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  #30

  Atonement

  by Ian McEwan

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 111

  176 points

  "The play – for which Briony had designed posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper – was..."

  

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