The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

Given by The Observer

100 obres 1,754,208 Llibres 28,185 Ressenyes ½ 4.0
Original list in The Observer, 12 Oct. 2003.

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"If lists are a guilty pleasure, then book lists are a sinful addiction. That's an observation for which the mostra'n més Observer can adduce empirical evidence. Ten years ago, on 12 October 2003, in a headline-grabbing stunt, writing as literary editor, I compiled (with a lot of help from colleagues) a list, provocatively entitled "The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time". Say what you like about lists, but this one rapidly developed a life of its own, like a sci-fi alien. Once the initial furore – why no Updike? How on earth could we exclude PG Wodehouse? – had died down, the creature we had created continued to circulate in cyberspace, sponsoring a rare mixture of rage and delight, apparently without rhyme or reason. Every now and again, some particular group would tangle with the Observer list. And it would drive them mad (in good and bad ways) all over again. For reasons I have yet to fathom, it excited special notice in Australia."

Robert McCrum in The Observer, 22 Sep 2013.

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Not to be confused with The Observer's 100 Best Novels started in 2013, which excludes the translations that are such a feature of this 2003 list. mostra'n menys
Year Awarded:
2003
ObraEtiqueta d'ordenació
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) de John Bunyan
2
Robinson Crusoe (1719) de Daniel Defoe
3
Viatges de Gulliver (1727) de Jonathan Swift
4
Tom Jones (1749) de Henry Fielding
5
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747) de Samuel Richardson
6
Vida i opinions de Tristram Shandy, home de llinatge (1759) de Laurence Sterne
7
Les relacions perilloses (1782) de Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
8
Emma (1815) de Jane Austen
9
Frankenstein (1818) de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
10
Nightmare Abbey (1818) de Thomas Love Peacock
11
The Black Sheep (1842) de Honoré de Balzac
12
La cartoixa de Parma (1839) de Stendhal
13
El Comte de Montecristo (1844) de Alexandre Dumas
14
Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) de Benjamin Disraeli
15
David Copperfield (1850) de Charles Dickens
16
Cims borrascosos (1847) de Emily Brontë
17
Jane Eyre (1847) de Charlotte Brontë
18
La fira de les vanitats (1848) de William Makepeace Thackeray
19
La lletra escarlata (1850) de Nathaniel Hawthorne
20
Moby Dick (1851) de Herman Melville
21
Madame Bovary (1857) de Gustave Flaubert
22
La dona de blanc (1859) de Wilkie Collins
23
Alícia al país de les meravelles (1865) de Lewis Carroll
24
Little Women (1868) de Louisa May Alcott
25
The Way We Live Now (1874) de Anthony Trollope
26
Anna Karènina (1875) de Leo Tolstoy
27
Daniel Deronda (1876) de George Eliot
28
Els germans Karamàzov (1880) de Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29
Retrat d'una dama (1908) de Henry James
30
Les Aventures d'en Huckleberry Finn (1884) de Mark Twain
31
L'estrany cas del Dr. Jekyll i Mr. Hyde (1886) de Robert Louis Stevenson
32
Tres Homes Dins D'una Barca (Sense comptar-hi el gos) (1889) de Jerome K. Jerome
33
El retrat de Dorian Gray (1890) de Oscar Wilde
34
The Diary of a Nobody (1892) de George Grossmith
35
Jude, l'obscur (1895) de Thomas Hardy
36
The Riddle of the Sands (1903) de Erskine Childers
37
La Crida del bosc (1903) de Jack London
38
Nostromo (1904) de Joseph Conrad
39
El Vent entre els salzes (1908) de Kenneth Grahame
40
A la recerca del temps perdut (1913) de Marcel Proust
41
The Rainbow (1915) de D. H. Lawrence
42
The Good Soldier (1915) de Ford Madox Ford
43
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) de John Buchan
44
Ulisses (1922) de James Joyce
45
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) de Virginia Woolf
46
Viatge a l'Índia (1924) de E. M. Forster
47
El gran Gatsby (1925) de F. Scott Fitzgerald
48
El procés (1925) de Franz Kafka
49
Men Without Women (1927) de Ernest Hemingway
50
Viatge al fons de la nit (1983) de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
51
Mentre em moria (1930) de William Faulkner
52
Un món feliç (1932) de Aldous Huxley
53
Últimes notícies (1938) de Evelyn Waugh
54
U.S.A. (1938) de John Dos Passos
55
La gran dormida (1939) de Raymond Chandler
56
The Pursuit of Love (1945) de Nancy Mitford
57
La pesta (1947) de Albert Camus
58
1984 (1949) de George Orwell
59
Malone Dies (1951) de Samuel Beckett
60
El vigilant en el camp de sègol (1951) de J. D. Salinger
61
Wise Blood (1952) de Flannery O'Connor
62
Charlotte's Web (1952) de E. B. White
63
El Senyor dels anells (1954) de J. R. R. Tolkien
64
Jim i la sort : novel·la (1954) de Kingsley Amis
65
Senyor de les mosques (1954) de William Golding
66
L'americà tranquil (1955) de Graham Greene
67
En el camino (1957) de Jack Kerouac
68
Lolita (1955) de Vladimir Nabokov
69
El Timbal de llauna (1959) de Günter Grass
70
Tot se'n va en orris (1958) de Chinua Achebe
71
El Punt dolç de la senyoreta Brodie (1961) de Muriel Spark
72
Matar un rossinyol (1960) de Harper Lee
73
Catch-22 (1961) de Joseph Heller
74
Herzog (1964) de Saul Bellow
75
Cent anys de solitud (1967) de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1971) de Elizabeth Taylor
77
El talp (Calderer Sastre Soldat Espia) (1974) de John le Carré
78
Song of Solomon (1977) de Toni Morrison
79
The Bottle Factory Outing (1974) de Beryl Bainbridge
80
El quadern daurat : II (1975) de Doris Lessing
81
The Executioner's Song (1979) de Norman Mailer
81
Si una nit d'hivern un viatger (1979) de Italo Calvino
82
A Bend in the River (1979) de V. S. Naipaul
83
Esperant els bàrbars (1980) de J. M. Coetzee
84
Housekeeping (1980) de Marilynne Robinson
85
Lanark (1981) de Alasdair Gray
86
Trilogia de Nova York (1985) de Paul Auster
87
El Gran amic gegant (1982) de Roald Dahl
88
El sistema periòdic (1975) de Primo Levi
89
Money: A Suicide Note (1984) de Martin Amis
90
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) de Kazuo Ishiguro
91
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) de Peter Carey
92
El llibre del riure i de l'oblit (1979) de Milan Kundera
93
Haroun i el mar de les històries (1990) de Salman Rushdie
94
L. A. Confidential (1990) de James Ellroy
95
Wise Children (1991) de Angela Carter
96
Expiació (2001) de Ian McEwan
97
Northern Lights (1995) de Philip Pullman
98
Pastoral americana (1997) de Philip Roth
99
Austerlitz (2001) de W. G. Sebald
100

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