The Guardian80%
The 100 best novels of all time 3%
By Frederick O'Brien0% Ellen Wishart0% Seán Clarke0% Pip Lev0% Rich Cousins0% Tom Richards0% Barry Ainslie0% Alessia Amitrano0% Harry Fischer0% Tara Herman0%
5/16/2026, 5:00:40 AM
Topics: 100 Best Novels, Fiction In Translation
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Biased Writer Voice, with Bandwagon as the most egregious example at 11.7% saturation with 50 hits. Analysis detected 210 faulty-reasoning hits from 428 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 14.1% and a BS Rank of 3% (16,426 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.70% of the article peer group.
The 100 best novels of all time
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide.
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The greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide.
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My Ántonia
The Go-Between
The Road
Catch-22
Pedro Páramo
The Return of the Native
The Known World
Invisible Cities
Sentimental Education
Life and Fate
Jacob's Room
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ragtime
The Line of Beauty
The Turn of the Screw
The Vegetarian
The Talented Mr Ripley
A Farewell to Arms
The End of the Affair
Buddenbrooks
Rebecca
Go Tell It on the Mountain
A House for Mr Biswas
The Rainbow
Dracula
The Bluest Eye
Nervous Conditions
Austerlitz
Our Mutual Friend
Kindred
Jude the Obscure
Crime and Punishment
Blood Meridian
The Man Without Qualities
The Master and Margarita
The Color Purple
The Good Soldier
White Teeth
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Rings of Saturn
Howards End
Never Let Me Go
Disgrace
The Sound and the Fury
Mansfield Park
The Waves
Orlando
The Transit of Venus
The Golden Bowl
My Brilliant Friend
Wide Sargasso Sea
A Fine Balance
The Metamorphosis
Vanity Fair
The Leopard
The Golden Notebook
Giovanni's Room
Housekeeping
The Magic Mountain
Heart of Darkness
Song of Solomon
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Age of Innocence
Invisible Man
The Handmaid's Tale
Great Expectations
Wolf Hall
David Copperfield
The God of Small Things
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Frankenstein
Pale Fire
The Brothers Karamazov
The Trial
Don Quixote
Lolita
The Remains of the Day
Midnight's Children
Things Fall Apart
The Portrait of a Lady
Wuthering Heights
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Persuasion
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Moby-Dick
Mrs Dalloway
Emma
Bleak House
The Great Gatsby
Madame Bovary
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
In Search of Lost Time
To the Lighthouse
Ulysses
Beloved
Middlemarch
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Credits
Editorial Charlotte Northedge, Liese Spencer, Justine Jordan, David Shariatmadari, Ella Creamer, Emma Loffhagen, Lisa Allardice
Production Julia Longley, Nick Shave, Grainne Mooney, Katie Shimmon
Pictures Kate Edwards, Caroline Hunter, Louis Siroy, Sadie Gould
Design & development Barry Ainslie, Fred O’Brien, Pip Lev, Sara Ramsbottom, Rich Cousins, Maggie Murphy, Alessia Amitrano, Harry Fischer, Ellen Wishart, Tara Herman
Data & development Tom Richards, Seán Clarke, Luke Hoyland
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