List :: 100 Greatest Novels of All Time by The Guardian

• 

  #71

  Things Fall Apart

  by Chinua Achebe

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 67

  255 points

  "Okonkwo was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #72

  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  by Muriel Spark

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 180

  109 points

  "The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes,..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #73

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  by Harper Lee

  (64 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 10

  701 points

  "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #74

  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  (31 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 6

  823 points

  "It was love at first sight."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #75

  Herzog

  by Saul Bellow

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 119

  162 points

  "If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #76

  One Hundred Years of Solitude

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  (25 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 12

  667 points

  "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #77

  Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

  by Elizabeth Taylor

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 506

  24 points

  "Mrs Palfrey first came to the Claremont Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in January."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #78

  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

  by John le Carré

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 469

  31 points

  "The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #79

  Song of Solomon

  by Toni Morrison

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 70

  250 points

  "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #80

  The Bottle Factory Outing

  by Beryl Bainbridge

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 522

  21 points

  "The hearse stood outside the block of flats, waiting for the old lady."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It