List :: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph

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  #11

  Pride and Prejudice

  by Jane Austen

  (30 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 19

  540 points

  "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

  

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  #12

  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 88

  211 points

  

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  #13

  David Copperfield

  by Charles Dickens

  (14 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 55

  309 points

  "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I..."

  

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  #14

  Wuthering Heights

  by Emily Brontë

  (32 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 26

  417 points

  

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  #15

  The Code of the Woosters

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 243

  86 points

  "I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves."

  

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  #16

  Brighton Rock

  by Graham Greene

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 162

  125 points

  "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours. [1956 ed.]"

  

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  #17

  Tess of the D'Urbervilles

  by Thomas Hardy

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 51

  315 points

  "On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor."

  

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  #18

  Scoop

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 122

  156 points

  "While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters'."

  

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  #19

  The War of the Worlds

  by H. G. Wells

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 133

  143 points

  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as..."

  

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  #20

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  by Laurence Sterne

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 74

  244 points

  "I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much...

  

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