List :: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph

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  #31

  Suite Française

  by Irene Nemirovsky

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 307

  70 points

  "Hot, thought the Parisians."

  

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  #32

  A Dance to the Music of Time

  by Anthony Powell

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 159

  127 points

  "The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of a camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of..."

  

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  #33

  Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

  by Samuel Richardson

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 85

  215 points

  "I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family."

  

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  #34

  The Big Sleep

  by Raymond Chandler

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 128

  152 points

  "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."

  

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  #35

  Lucky Jim

  by Kingsley Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 149

  133 points

  "They made a silly mistake, though," the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.

  

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  #36

  Les Misérables

  by Victor Hugo

  (19 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 260

  81 points

  "In the Year 1815 Monseigneur Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne."

  

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  #37

  The Warden

  by Anthony Trollope

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 345

  64 points

  "The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ---; let us call it Barchester."

  

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  #38

  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (97 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 1

  994 points

  "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

  

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  #39

  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..."

  

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  #40

  The House of Mirth

  by Edith Wharton

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 113

  172 points

  "Selden paused in surprise."

  

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