The Guardian: 100 best novels written in English
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NameTitleAuthorYearSynopsis
91Midnight’s Children—Salman Rushdie1981The personal and the historical merge in Salman Rushdie’s dazzling, game-changing Indian English novel of a young man born at the very moment of Indian independence.
92Housekeeping—Marilynne Robinson1981Marilynne Robinson’s tale of orphaned sisters and their oddball aunt in a remote Idaho town is admired by everyone from Barack Obama to Bret Easton Ellis.
93Money: A Suicide Note—Martin Amis1984Martin Amis’s era-defining ode to excess unleashed one of literature’s greatest modern monsters in self-destructive antihero John Self.
94An Artist of the Floating World—Kazuo Ishiguro1986Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about a retired artist in postwar Japan, reflecting on his career during the country’s dark years, is a tour de force of unreliable narration.
95The Beginning of Spring—Penelope Fitzgerald1988Fitzgerald’s story, set in Russia just before the Bolshevik revolution, is her masterpiece: a brilliant miniature whose peculiar magic almost defies analysis.
96Breathing Lessons—Anne Tyler1988Anne Tyler’s portrayal of a middle-aged, mid-American marriage displays her narrative clarity, comic timing and ear for American speech to perfection.
97Amongst Women—John McGahern1990This modern Irish masterpiece is both a study of the faultlines of Irish patriarchy and an elegy for a lost world.
98Underworld—Don DeLillo1997A writer of “frightening perception”, Don DeLillo guides the reader in an epic journey through America’s history and popular culture.
99Disgrace—JM Coetzee1999In his Booker-winning masterpiece, Coetzee’s intensely human vision infuses a fictional world that both invites and confounds political interpretation.
100True History of the Kelly Gang—Peter Carey2000Peter Carey rounds off our list of literary milestones with a Booker prize-winning tour-de-force examining the life and times of Australia’s infamous antihero, Ned Kelly.
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