Home/The Guardian: 100 best novels written in EnglishHomeList · 100 itemsThe Guardian: 100 best novels written in EnglishTheBookworm100 itemsUpdated last yearListThe Guardian: 100 best novels written in EnglishTheBookworm@TheBookworm100Items100 picks in “The Guardian: 100 best novels written in English”, curated by TheBookworm on TheLysts.See all 100 itemsFollow TheBookwormShareOpen in appThe listShowing 51–60 of 100Search these 100 itemsRankTableCardsThe Guardian: 100 best novels written in English — 10 itemsNameAuthorYearSynopsis51The Great GatsbyF Scott Fitzgerald1925Fitzgerald’s jazz age masterpiece has become a tantalising metaphor for the eternal mystery of art.52Lolly WillowesSylvia Townsend Warner1926A young woman escapes convention by becoming a witch in this original satire about England after the first world war.53The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway1926Hemingway’s first and best novel makes an escape to 1920s Spain to explore courage, cowardice and manly authenticity.54The Maltese FalconDashiell Hammett1929Dashiell Hammett’s crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré.55As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner1930The influence of William Faulkner’s immersive tale of raw Mississippi rural life can be felt to this day.56Brave New WorldAldous Huxley1932Aldous Huxley’s vision of a future human race controlled by global capitalism is every bit as prescient as Orwell’s more famous dystopia.57Cold Comfort FarmStella Gibbons1932The book for which Gibbons is best remembered was a satire of late-Victorian pastoral fiction but went on to influence many subsequent generations.58Nineteen NineteenJohn Dos Passos1932The middle volume of John Dos Passos’s USA trilogy is revolutionary in its intent, techniques and lasting impact.59Tropic of CancerHenry Miller1934The US novelist’s debut revelled in a Paris underworld of seedy sex and changed the course of the novel – though not without a fight with the censors.60ScoopEvelyn Waugh1938Evelyn Waugh’s Fleet Street satire remains sharp, pertinent and memorable.90 more items in this listSign up free to see them all, with every column and every photograph.Sign up free5678NextServer-rendered — every page reachable without JavaScriptReport
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