Home/Entertainment/Books/The Guardian: 100 best novels written in EnglishHome/Entertainment/BooksList · 100 itemsThe Guardian: 100 beste Romane auf EnglischTheBookworm · 4 likes100 itemsUpdated letztes JahrListBooks · EntertainmentThe Guardian: 100 beste Romane auf EnglischTheBookworm@TheBookworm100Items4Likes100 picks in “The Guardian: 100 best novels written in English”, curated by TheBookworm on TheLysts.See all 100 itemsFollow TheBookwormShareOpen in appThe listShowing 31–40 of 100Search these 100 itemsRankTableCardsThe Guardian: 100 beste Romane auf Englisch — 10 itemsNameTitleAuthorYearSynopsis31Dracula—Bram Stoker1897Bram Stoker’s classic vampire story was very much of its time but still resonates more than a century later.32Heart of Darkness—Joseph Conrad1899Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece about a life-changing journey in search of Mr Kurtz has the simplicity of great myth.33Sister Carrie—Theodore Dreiser1900Theodore Dreiser was no stylist, but there’s a terrific momentum to his unflinching novel about a country girl’s American dream.34Kim—Rudyard Kipling1901In Kipling’s classic boy’s own spy story, an orphan in British India must make a choice between east and west.35The Call of the Wild—Jack London1903Jack London’s vivid adventures of a pet dog that goes back to nature reveal an extraordinary style and consummate storytelling.36The Golden Bowl—Henry James1904American literature contains nothing else quite like Henry James’s amazing, labyrinthine and claustrophobic novel.37Hadrian the Seventh—Frederick Rolfe1904This entertaining if contrived story of a hack writer and priest who becomes pope sheds vivid light on its eccentric author – described by DH Lawrence as a “man-demon”.38The Wind in the Willows—Kenneth Grahame1908The evergreen tale from the riverbank and a powerful contribution to the mythology of Edwardian England.39The History of Mr Polly—HG Wells1910The choice is great, but Wells’s ironic portrait of a man very like himself is the novel that stands out.40Zuleika Dobson—Max Beerbohm1911The passage of time has conferred a dark power upon Beerbohm’s ostensibly light and witty Edwardian satire.90 more items in this listSign up free to see them all, with every column and every photograph.Sign up free3456NextServer-rendered — every page reachable without JavaScriptReport
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