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Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.. The English novel is an important part of English literature.This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland (or any part of Ireland before 1922).
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
The Affair (Child novel) The Affair (Snow novel) After the Fire, A Still Small Voice; Agnes de Castro; or, The Force of Generous Love; Agnes Grey; Airs Above the Ground (novel) Albert Angelo; Alice Lorraine; All Quiet on the Orient Express; Alton Locke; Amelia (novel) Amsterdam (novel) Animal Farm; The Anti-Pamela; or, Feign'd Innocence Detected
The Guardian asked readers a fortnight after the conclusion of McCrum's list to name the novels that they wish had been on the list. The book with the highest number of votes was Chinua Achebe 's Things Fall Apart , the second Arundhati Roy 's The God of Small Things , and the third Toni Morrison 's Beloved .
GingerSnaps (novel) The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden; The Girl with the Jade Green Eyes; Girls of Riyadh; The Golden Gizmo; The Go-Between; God's Fool; Goliath (Onyebuchi novel) Good News From Outer Space; The Great Santini (novel) The Green Child; Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess; Gunk Baby
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [2] [3] The list triggered comments from critics and other news agencies.
A list of the ten best graphic novels of the period was subsequently published as a supplement to the list. [3] Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons appears on both the 100 Best Novels and 10 Best Graphic Novels lists, giving the combined lists a total of 109 entries.