De 100 beste Engelstalige romans volgens Robert McCrum, chronologisch gerangschikt: (zie TheGuardian)

  1. The Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan, 1678)
  2. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719)
  3. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726)
  4. Clarissa (Samuel Richardson, 1748)
  5. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding, 1749)
  6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne, 1759)
  7. Emma (Jane Austen, 1816)
  8. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley (1818)
  9. Nightmare Abbey (Thomas Love Peacock, 1818)
  10. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Edgar Allan Poe, 1838)
  11. Sybil (Benjamin Disraeli, 1845)
  12. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë (1847)
  13. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)
  14. Vanity Fair (William Thackeray, 1848)
  15. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, 1850)
  16. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850)
  17. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville, 1851)
  18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
  19. The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins, 1868)
  20. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott, 1868/89)
  21. Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1871/72)
  22. The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope, 1875)
  23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1884/85)
  24. Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
  25. Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K Jerome, 1889)
  26. The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890)
  27. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde, 1891)
  28. New Grub Street (George Gissing, 1891)
  29. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895)
  30. The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane, 1895)
  31. Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)
  32. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899)
  33. Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser, 1900)
  34. Kim (Rudyard Kipling, 1901)
  35. The Call of the Wild (Jack London, 1903)
  36. The Golden Bowl (Henry James, 1904)
  37. Hadrian the Seventh (Frederick Rolfe, 1904)
  38. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)
  39. The History of Mr Polly (HG Wells, 1910)
  40. Zuleika Dobson (Max Beerbohm, 1911)
  41. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford, 1915)
  42. The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan, 1915)
  43. The Rainbow (DH Lawrence, 1915)
  44. Of Human Bondage (W Somerset Maugham, 1915)
  45. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton, 1920)
  46. Ulysses (James Joyce, 1922)
  47. Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis, 1922)
  48. A Passage to India (EM Forster, 1924)
  49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Anita Loos, 1925)
  50. Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
  51. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)
  52. Lolly Willowes (Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1926)
  53. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway, 1926)
  54. The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett, 1929)
  55. As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner, 1930)
  56. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932)
  57. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons, 1932)
  58. Nineteen Nineteen (John Dos Passos, 1932)
  59. Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller, 1934)
  60. Scoop (Evelyn Waugh, 1938)
  61. Murphy (Samuel Beckett, 1938)
  62. The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler, 1939)
  63. Party Going (Henry Green, 1939)
  64. At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O’Brien, 1939)
  65. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck, 1939)
  66. Joy in the Morning (PG Wodehouse, 1946)
  67. All the King’s Men (Robert Penn Warren, 1946)
  68. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry, 1947)
  69. The Heat of the Day (Elizabeth Bowen, 1948)
  70. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949)
  71. The End of the Affair (Graham Greene, 1951)
  72. The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger, 1951)
  73. The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow, 1953)
  74. Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954)
  75. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, 1955)
  76. On the Road (Jack Kerouac, 1957)
  77. Voss (Patrick White, 1957)
  78. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee, 1960)
  79. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark, 1960)
  80. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller (1961)
  81. The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing, 1962)
  82. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962)
  83. A Single Man (Christopher Isherwood, 1964)
  84. In Cold Blood (Truman Capote, 1966)
  85. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath, 1966)
  86. Portnoy’s Complaint (Philip Roth, 1969)
  87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Elizabeth Taylor, 1971)
  88. Rabbit Redux (John Updike, 1971)
  89. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison, 1977)
  90. A Bend in the River (VS Naipaul, 1979)
  91. Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie, 1981)
  92. Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson, 1981)
  93. Money: A Suicide Note (Martin Amis, 1984)
  94. An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1986)
  95. The Beginning of Spring (Penelope Fitzgerald, 1988)
  96. Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler, 1988)
  97. Amongst Women (John McGahern, 1990)
  98. Underworld (Don DeLillo, 1997)
  99. Disgrace (JM Coetzee, 1999)
  100. True History of the Kelly Gang (Peter Carey, 2000)