BBC Culture - The 100 Greatest British Novels

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BBC Culture contributor Jane Ciabattari polled 82 book critics, from Australia to Zimbabwe – but none from the UK. This list includes no nonfiction, no plays, no narrative or epic poems (no vis mere Paradise Lost or Beowulf), no short story collections (no Morte D’Arthur) – novels only, by British authors (which means no James Joyce). vis mindre
VærkOrder Label
Middlemarch (1871) af George Eliot
1
Til fyret : roman (1927) af Virginia Woolf
2
Mrs. Dalloway : roman (1925) af Virginia Woolf
3
Store forventninger (1861) af Charles Dickens
4
Jane Eyre (1847) af Charlotte Brontë
5
Bleak House (1852) af Charles Dickens
6
Stormfulde højder (1847) af Emily Brontë
7
David Copperfield (1850) af Charles Dickens
8
Vanity Fair (1848) af William Makepeace Thackeray
10
Stolthed og fordom (1813) af Jane Austen
11
Den gode soldat (1915) af Ford Madox Ford
13
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747) af Samuel Richardson
14
Soning (2001) af Ian McEwan
15
Bølgerne (1931) af Virginia Woolf
16
Howards End (1910) af E. M. Forster
17
Resten af dagen (1989) af Kazuo Ishiguro
18
Emma (1815) af Jane Austen
19
Kærlighed og svaghed (1817) af Jane Austen
20
Mørkets hjerte (1899) af Joseph Conrad
21
Tom Jones (1749) af Henry Fielding
22
Jude the Obscure (1895) af Thomas Hardy
23
Den gyldne bog (1962) af Doris Lessing
24
White Teeth (2000) af Zadie Smith
25
Ringenes herre (1954) af J. R. R. Tolkien
26
Robinson Crusoe (1719) af Daniel Defoe
27
Villette (1853) af Charlotte Brontë
28
Brick Lane (2003) af Monica Ali
29
Moll Flanders (1722) af Daniel Defoe
30
Enden på legen (1951) af Graham Greene
31
Værelse med udsigt (1908) af E. M. Forster
32
Vinden i piletræerne (1908) af Kenneth Grahame
33
Never Let Me Go (2005) af Kazuo Ishiguro
34
Remainder (2005) af Tom McCarthy
35
A Dance to the Music of Time (1955) af Anthony Powell
36
Decline and Fall (1928) af Evelyn Waugh
37
Passionen (1987) af Jeanette Winterson
38
Når noget slutter (2011) af Julian Barnes
39
Alice i eventyrland (1865) af Lewis Carroll
40
Doomby and Son (1846) af Charles Dickens
41
Brighton Rock (1938) af Graham Greene
42
The Swimming-Pool Library (1988) af Alan Hollinghurst
43
Wolf Hall : roman (2009) af Hilary Mantel
44
Lille fremmede (2009) af Sarah Waters
45
Midnatsbørn (1981) af Salman Rushdie
46
Tristram Shandys levned og meninger (1759) af Laurence Sterne
47
Lucky Jim (1954) af Kingsley Amis
48
Besættelse (1990) af A.S. Byatt
49
Indiske dage (1924) af E. M. Forster
50
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) af Thomas Hardy
51
New Grub Street (1891) af George Gissing
52
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) af Jean Rhys
53
NW (2012) af Zadie Smith
54
Gullivers rejser (1727) af Jonathan Swift
55
Der er andre frugter end appelsiner (1985) af Jeanette Winterson
56
Parade's End (1925) af Ford Madox Ford
57
Loving (1945) af Henry Green
58
I skønhedens tjeneste : roman (2004) af Alan Hollinghurst
59
Sønner og elskere (1913) af D. H. Lawrence
60
The Sea, the Sea (1978) af Iris Murdoch
61
Kammerat Napoleon (1945) af George Orwell
62
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) af Muriel Spark
63
The Way We Live Now (1874) af Anthony Trollope
64
Orlando (1928) af Virginia Woolf
65
Fornuft og følelse (1811) af Jane Austen
66
Crash (1973) af J. G. Ballard
67
A clockwork orange (1962) af Anthony Burgess
68
Nostromo (1904) af Joseph Conrad
69
Daniel Deronda (1876) af George Eliot
70
Old Filth (2004) af Jane Gardam
71
Sagens kerne (1948) af Graham Greene
72
The Blue Flower (1995) af Penelope Fitzgerald
73
Borgmesteren (1886) af Thomas Hardy
74
Når kvinder elsker (1920) af D. H. Lawrence
75
En lille ø (2004) af Andrea Levy
76
Of Human Bondage (1915) af W. Somerset Maugham
77
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) af V. S. Naipaul
78
His Dark Materials (2000) af Philip Pullman
79
Excellent Women (1952) af Barbara Pym
80
The Jewel in the Crown (1966) af Paul Scott
81
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk (2012) af Edward St. Aubyn
82
Barchester Towers (1857) af Anthony Trollope
83
Scoop (1938) af Evelyn Waugh
84
The Regeneration Trilogy (1991) af Pat Barker
85
A Legacy (1956) af Sybille Bedford
86
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) af Arnold Bennett
87
The Death of the Heart (1938) af Elizabeth Bowen
88
The Horse's Mouth (1957) af Joyce Cary
89
Kvinden i hvidt : roman (1859) af Wilkie Collins
90
The Forsyte Saga (1922) af John Galsworthy
91
Cold Comfort Farm (1932) af Stella Gibbons
92
Fluernes herre (1954) af William Golding
93
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) af James Hogg
94
En forstadsbuddha (1990) af Hanif Kureishi
95
En overlevendes erindringer (1974) af Doris Lessing
96
Narnia fortællingerne (1950) af C. S. Lewis
97
Under vulkanen (1947) af Malcolm Lowry
98
I miles omkreds (2011) af Ali Smith
99
The Code of the Woosters (1938) af P. G. Wodehouse
100

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