Literary Prize
Guardian 100 Best Novels Winners
Among the most respected prizes in its category, this award has a strong track record of recognising literature that endures beyond its year of publication. Its shortlists and winners provide a reliable guide to the field's most important works.
270 winners ranked
Top Countries
Top Genres
All Winners
#1
classic-literature
The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andrić· 1945
★Nobel Prize in Literature
Editorial Score83/100
#2
literary-fiction
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante· 2011
Editorial Score58/100
#3
short-stories
An Elegy for Easterly
Petina Gappah· 2009
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score58/100
#4
literary-fiction
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen· 1813
Guardian 100 Best NovelsBBC Big Read
Editorial Score55/100
#5
literary-fiction
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë· 1847
Guardian 100 Best NovelsBBC Big Read
Editorial Score53/100
#6
literary-fiction
Middlemarch
George Eliot· 1871
Guardian 100 Best NovelsTimes Literary Supplement
Editorial Score52/100
#7
literary-fiction
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens· 1861
Guardian 100 Best NovelsBBC Big Read
Editorial Score51/100
#8
classic-literature
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce· 1916
Editorial Score51/100
#9
childrens
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery· 1908
Editorial Score50/100
#10
literary-fiction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera· 1984
Editorial Score50/100
#11
classic-literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde· 1890
Editorial Score50/100
#12
literary-fiction
The Spinning Heart
Donal Ryan· 2012
★Booker Prize
Editorial Score50/100
#13
literary-fiction
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens· 1850
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score48/100
#14
religion-spirituality
Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan· 1678
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score47/100
#15
literary-fiction
The Ambassadors
Henry James· 1903
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score47/100
#16
literary-fiction
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne· 1759
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score46/100
#17
mystery-thriller
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad· 1907
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score46/100
#18
adventure
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe· 1719
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score45/100
#19
literary-fiction
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson· 1748
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score45/100
#20
literary-fiction
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë· 1847
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score45/100
#21
literary-fiction
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens· 1838
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score45/100
#22
literary-fiction
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes· 1605
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score44/100
#23
literary-fiction
Emma
Jane Austen· 1815
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score44/100
#24
adventure
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain· 1884
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score44/100
#25
literary-fiction
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James· 1881
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score44/100
#26
literary-fiction
Bleak House
Charles Dickens· 1853
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score43/100
#27
literary-fiction
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford· 1915
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score43/100
#28
biography-memoir
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz· 2002
Editorial Score42/100
#29
adventure
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift· 1726
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score41/100
#30
literary-fiction
The Wings of the Dove
Henry James· 1902
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score41/100
#31
literary-fiction
Ulysses
James Joyce· 1922
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score41/100
#32
adventure
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding· 1749
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score39/100
#33
adventure
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens· 1836
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score38/100
#34
literary-fiction
Kintu
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi· 2014
Editorial Score32/100
#35
biography-memoir
The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig· 1942
Editorial Score31/100
#36
literary-fiction
The Physics of Sorrow
Georgi Gospodinov· 2012
Editorial Score31/100
#37
literary-fiction
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Sjón· 2013
Editorial Score31/100
#38
historical-fiction
Silence
Shusaku Endo· 1966
Editorial Score31/100
#39
literary-fiction
The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy
Paulina Chiziane· 2002
Editorial Score31/100
#40
literary-fiction
The Time Regulation Institute
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar· 1962
Editorial Score31/100
#41
literary-fiction
The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk· 2008
Editorial Score31/100
#42
literary-fiction
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga· 1988
Editorial Score31/100
#43
literary-fiction
The Patience Stone
Atiq Rahimi· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#44
literary-fiction
The Wandering Falcon
Jamil Ahmad· 2011
Editorial Score30/100
#45
literary-fiction
Chronicle in Stone
Ismail Kadare· 1971
Editorial Score30/100
#46
literary-fiction
Nedjma
Kateb Yacine· 1956
Editorial Score30/100
#47
historical-fiction
What the Day Owes the Night
Yasmina Khadra· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#48
literary-fiction
The Book of Chameleons
José Eduardo Agualusa· 2004
Editorial Score30/100
#49
literary-fiction
The Return of the Water Spirit
Pepetela· 1995
Editorial Score30/100
#50
literary-fiction
Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar· 1963
Editorial Score30/100
#51
literary-fiction
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Manuel Puig· 1976
Editorial Score30/100
#52
historical-fiction
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Franz Werfel· 1933
Editorial Score30/100
#53
biography-memoir
The Book of Whispers
Varujan Vosganian· 2009
Editorial Score30/100
#54
literary-fiction
Cloudstreet
Tim Winton· 1991
Editorial Score30/100
#55
classic-literature
My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin· 1901
Editorial Score30/100
#56
literary-fiction
Carpentaria
Alexis Wright· 2006
Editorial Score30/100
#57
classic-literature
The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth· 1932
Editorial Score30/100
#58
historical-fiction
Ali and Nino
Kurban Said· 1937
Editorial Score30/100
#59
historical-fiction
The Gulf
Abdulla Al-Derazi· 2007
Editorial Score30/100
#60
politics-society
Lajja
Taslima Nasrin· 1993
Editorial Score30/100
#61
poetry
Selected Poems
Jibanananda Das· 1948
Editorial Score30/100
#62
literary-fiction
The Misfortunates
Dimitri Verhulst· 2006
Editorial Score30/100
#63
literary-fiction
When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head· 1968
Editorial Score30/100
#64
classic-literature
Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis· 1899
Editorial Score30/100
#65
classic-literature
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis· 1881
Editorial Score30/100
#66
classic-literature
Under the Yoke
Ivan Vazov· 1894
Editorial Score30/100
#67
classic-literature
Houseboy
Ferdinand Oyono· 1956
Editorial Score30/100
#68
literary-fiction
The Postman
Antonio Skármeta· 1985
Editorial Score30/100
#69
historical-fiction
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes· 1962
Editorial Score30/100
#70
literary-fiction
The Sound of Things Falling
Juan Gabriel Vásquez· 2011
Editorial Score30/100
#71
literary-fiction
The Informers
Juan Gabriel Vásquez· 2004
Editorial Score30/100
#72
literary-fiction
Broken Glass
Alain Mabanckou· 2005
Editorial Score30/100
#73
fantasy
Memoirs of a Porcupine
Alain Mabanckou· 2006
Editorial Score30/100
#74
literary-fiction
Life and a Half
Sony Labou Tansi· 1979
Editorial Score30/100
#75
historical-fiction
Mamita Yunai
Carlos Luis Fallas· 1940
Editorial Score30/100
#76
historical-fiction
El año del laberinto
Tatiana Lobo· 1997
Editorial Score30/100
#77
classic-literature
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Miroslav Krleža· 1932
Editorial Score30/100
#78
literary-fiction
The Ministry of Pain
Dubravka Ugrešić· 2004
Editorial Score30/100
#79
literary-fiction
Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante· 1965
Editorial Score30/100
#80
classic-literature
Paradiso
José Lezama Lima· 1966
Editorial Score30/100
#81
historical-fiction
The Kingdom of this World
Alejo Carpentier· 1949
Editorial Score30/100
#82
poetry
The Poet's Voice
Kyriakos Charalambides· 1990
Editorial Score30/100
#83
historical-fiction
Closely Watched Trains
Bohumil Hrabal· 1965
Editorial Score30/100
#84
literary-fiction
The Joke
Milan Kundera· 1967
Editorial Score30/100
#85
literary-fiction
Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal· 1976
Editorial Score30/100
#86
biography-memoir
Out of Africa
Karen Blixen· 1937
Editorial Score30/100
#87
short-stories
The Kingdom of Denmark
Hans Christian Andersen· 1835
Editorial Score30/100
#88
historical-fiction
We, the Drowned
Carsten Jensen· 2006
Editorial Score30/100
#89
classic-literature
Huasipungo
Jorge Icaza· 1934
Editorial Score30/100
#90
classic-literature
Children of the Alley
Naguib Mahfouz· 1959
Editorial Score30/100
#91
mystery-thriller
The Good Cripple
Rodrigo Rey Rosa· 1998
Editorial Score30/100
#92
classic-literature
Truth and Justice
Anton Hansen Tammsaare· 1926
Editorial Score30/100
#93
historical-fiction
Purge
Sofi Oksanen· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#94
literary-fiction
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu· 2007
Editorial Score30/100
#95
historical-fiction
The Unknown Soldier
Väinö Linna· 1954
Editorial Score30/100
#96
classic-literature
Seven Brothers
Aleksis Kivi· 1870
Editorial Score30/100
#97
poetry
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire· 1857
Editorial Score30/100
#98
classic-literature
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline· 1932
Editorial Score30/100
#99
classic-literature
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
Shota Rustaveli· 1190
Editorial Score30/100
#100
classic-literature
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1808
Editorial Score30/100
#101
classic-literature
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin· 1929
Editorial Score30/100
#102
classic-literature
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1774
Editorial Score30/100
#103
classic-literature
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Ayi Kwei Armah· 1968
Editorial Score30/100
#104
literary-fiction
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis· 1946
Editorial Score30/100
#105
drama
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Aeschylus· -458
Editorial Score30/100
#106
historical-fiction
Prisión Verde
Ramón Amaya Amador· 1945
Editorial Score30/100
#107
literary-fiction
Journey by Moonlight
Antal Szerb· 1937
Editorial Score30/100
#108
literary-fiction
The Fish Can Sing
Halldór Laxness· 1957
Editorial Score30/100
#109
literary-fiction
Angels of the Universe
Einar Már Guðmundsson· 1993
Editorial Score30/100
#110
historical-fiction
Train to Pakistan
Khushwant Singh· 1956
Editorial Score30/100
#111
literary-fiction
The Guide
R.K. Narayan· 1958
Editorial Score30/100
#112
historical-fiction
This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer· 1980
Editorial Score30/100
#113
literary-fiction
Saman
Ayu Utami· 1998
Editorial Score30/100
#114
classic-literature
The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat· 1937
Editorial Score30/100
#115
historical-fiction
The Colonel
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi· 2009
Editorial Score30/100
#116
literary-fiction
The Corpse Washer
Sinan Antoon· 2010
Editorial Score30/100
#117
literary-fiction
I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody
Sinan Antoon· 2004
Editorial Score30/100
#118
short-stories
The Madman of Freedom Square
Hassan Blasim· 2009
Editorial Score30/100
#119
literary-fiction
The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien· 1960
Editorial Score30/100
#120
literary-fiction
My Michael
Amos Oz· 1968
Editorial Score30/100
#121
literary-fiction
The Lover
A. B. Yehoshua· 1977
Editorial Score30/100
#122
literary-fiction
See Under: Love
David Grossman· 1986
Editorial Score30/100
#123
classic-literature
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni· 1827
Editorial Score30/100
#124
historical-fiction
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani· 1962
Editorial Score30/100
#125
biography-memoir
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi· 1945
Editorial Score30/100
#126
literary-fiction
Allah is Not Obliged
Ahmadou Kourouma· 2000
Editorial Score30/100
#127
classic-literature
The Suns of Independence
Ahmadou Kourouma· 1968
Editorial Score30/100
#128
literary-fiction
Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote
Ahmadou Kourouma· 1998
Editorial Score30/100
#129
biography-memoir
The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda
Véronique Tadjo· 2000
Editorial Score30/100
#130
historical-fiction
Queen Pokou: Concerto for a Sacrifice
Véronique Tadjo· 2005
Editorial Score30/100
#131
literary-fiction
The Harder They Come
Michael Thelwell· 1980
Editorial Score30/100
#132
classic-literature
Brother Man
Roger Mais· 1954
Editorial Score30/100
#133
classic-literature
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu· 1008
Editorial Score30/100
#134
literary-fiction
A Map of Home
Randa Jarrar· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#135
literary-fiction
The Silence and the Roar
Nihad Sirees· 2004
Editorial Score30/100
#136
classic-literature
The Path of Abai
Mukhtar Auezov· 1942
Editorial Score30/100
#137
philosophy
The Book of Words
Abai Qunanbaiuly· 1909
Editorial Score30/100
#138
literary-fiction
The River and the Source
Margaret A. Ogola· 1994
Editorial Score30/100
#139
literary-fiction
The Wedding
Ismail Kadare· 1968
Editorial Score30/100
#140
literary-fiction
The Bamboo Stalk
Saud Alsanousi· 2012
Editorial Score30/100
#141
classic-literature
Jamilia
Chingiz Aitmatov· 1958
Editorial Score30/100
#142
biography-memoir
Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War
Fred Branfman· 1972
Editorial Score30/100
#143
classic-literature
In the Shadow of Death
Rūdolfs Blaumanis· 1899
Editorial Score30/100
#144
historical-fiction
Five Fingers
Māris Bērziņš· 2013
Editorial Score30/100
#145
philosophy
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran· 1923
Editorial Score30/100
#146
literary-fiction
De Niro's Game
Rawi Hage· 2006
Editorial Score30/100
#147
biography-memoir
Forest of the Gods
Balys Sruoga· 1957
Editorial Score30/100
#148
historical-fiction
In the Shadow of Wolves
Alvydas Šlepikas· 2011
Editorial Score30/100
#149
literary-fiction
Return to the Enchanted Island
Johary Ravaloson· 2012
Editorial Score30/100
#150
literary-fiction
We, The Survivors
Tash Aw· 2019
Editorial Score30/100
#151
historical-fiction
The Fortunes of Wangrin
Amadou Hampâté Bâ· 1973
Editorial Score30/100
#152
literary-fiction
In the Name of the Father (and of the Son)
Immanuel Mifsud· 2010
Editorial Score30/100
#153
literary-fiction
Rih Isfel
Trevor Żahra· 1980
Editorial Score30/100
#154
short-stories
Il-Ħajja Sigrieta tan-Nanna Ġenoveffa
Pierre J. Mejlak· 2011
Editorial Score30/100
#155
literary-fiction
Sriep ta' l-Ilium
Alex Vella Gera· 2011
Editorial Score30/100
#156
historical-fiction
The Last Brother
Nathacha Appanah· 2007
Editorial Score30/100
#157
literary-fiction
The Blue Sky
Galsan Tschinag· 1994
Editorial Score30/100
#158
classic-literature
The Mountain Wreath
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš· 1847
Editorial Score30/100
#159
literary-fiction
The Sand Child
Tahar Ben Jelloun· 1985
Editorial Score30/100
#160
literary-fiction
The Last Patriarch
Najat El Hachmi· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#161
literary-fiction
Sleepwalking Land
Mia Couto· 1992
Editorial Score30/100
#162
historical-fiction
Not Out of Hate
Ma Ma Lay· 1955
Editorial Score30/100
#163
literary-fiction
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Neshani Andreas· 2001
Editorial Score30/100
#164
literary-fiction
Palpasa Café
Narayan Wagle· 2005
Editorial Score30/100
#165
literary-fiction
The Discovery of Heaven
Harry Mulisch· 1992
Editorial Score30/100
#166
literary-fiction
The Evenings
Gerard Reve· 1947
Editorial Score30/100
#167
literary-fiction
Owls Do Cry
Janet Frame· 1957
Editorial Score30/100
#168
literary-fiction
Potiki
Patricia Grace· 1986
Editorial Score30/100
#169
literary-fiction
The Inhabited Woman
Gioconda Belli· 1988
Editorial Score30/100
#170
poetry
Hora Cero
Ernesto Cardenal· 1960
Editorial Score30/100
#171
classic-literature
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Amos Tutuola· 1952
Editorial Score30/100
#172
literary-fiction
The Joys of Motherhood
Buchi Emecheta· 1979
Editorial Score30/100
#173
literary-fiction
The Accusation
Bandi· 2014
Editorial Score30/100
#174
literary-fiction
The Big Water
Živko Čingo· 1971
Editorial Score30/100
#175
literary-fiction
The Return of Philip Latinovicz
Miroslav Krleža· 1932
Editorial Score30/100
#176
literary-fiction
The Ice Palace
Tarjei Vesaas· 1963
Editorial Score30/100
#177
literary-fiction
Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson· 2003
Editorial Score30/100
#178
literary-fiction
Moth Smoke
Mohsin Hamid· 2000
Editorial Score30/100
#179
literary-fiction
Kartography
Kamila Shamsie· 2002
Editorial Score30/100
#180
classic-literature
Men in the Sun
Ghassan Kanafani· 1963
Editorial Score30/100
#181
biography-memoir
I Saw Ramallah
Mourid Barghouti· 1997
Editorial Score30/100
#182
historical-fiction
I, the Supreme
Augusto Roa Bastos· 1974
Editorial Score30/100
#183
mystery-thriller
Death in the Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa· 1993
Editorial Score30/100
#184
literary-fiction
Un mundo para Julius
Alfredo Bryce Echenique· 1970
Editorial Score30/100
#185
literary-fiction
The Woman Who Had Two Navels
Nick Joaquin· 1961
Editorial Score30/100
#186
classic-literature
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Jan Potocki· 1804
Editorial Score30/100
#187
literary-fiction
Ferdydurke
Witold Gombrowicz· 1937
Editorial Score30/100
#188
classic-literature
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa· 1982
Editorial Score30/100
#189
classic-literature
The Crime of Father Amaro
José Maria de Eça de Queirós· 1875
Editorial Score30/100
#190
classic-literature
The Hatchet
Mihail Sadoveanu· 1930
Editorial Score30/100
#191
classic-literature
The Lucky Mill
Ioan Slavici· 1881
Editorial Score30/100
#192
classic-literature
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn· 1962
Editorial Score30/100
#193
science-fiction
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin· 1924
Editorial Score30/100
#194
poetry
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin· 1833
Editorial Score30/100
#195
literary-fiction
Our Lady of the Nile
Scholastique Mukasonga· 2012
Editorial Score30/100
#196
historical-fiction
Cities of Salt
Abdul Rahman Munif· 1984
Editorial Score30/100
#197
poetry
The Grub Hunter
Amal Al-Jubouri· 2000
Editorial Score30/100
#198
classic-literature
So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ· 1979
Editorial Score30/100
#199
classic-literature
Ambiguous Adventure
Cheikh Hamidou Kane· 1961
Editorial Score30/100
#200
literary-fiction
Dictionary of the Khazars
Milorad Pavić· 1984
Editorial Score30/100
#201
historical-fiction
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Danilo Kiš· 1976
Editorial Score30/100
#202
literary-fiction
The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Danilo Kiš· 1983
Editorial Score30/100
#203
biography-memoir
The Devil that Danced on the Water
Aminatta Forna· 2002
Editorial Score30/100
#204
literary-fiction
If We Dream Too Long
Goh Poh Seng· 1972
Editorial Score30/100
#205
short-stories
Ministry of Moral Panic
Amanda Lee Koe· 2013
Editorial Score30/100
#206
literary-fiction
The House of the Deaf Man
Peter Krištúfek· 2012
Editorial Score30/100
#207
poetry
The Garden
Andrej Sládkovič· 1844
Editorial Score30/100
#208
historical-fiction
Alamut
Vladimir Bartol· 1938
Editorial Score30/100
#209
literary-fiction
From a Crooked Rib
Nuruddin Farah· 1970
Editorial Score30/100
#210
literary-fiction
July's People
Nadine Gordimer· 1981
Editorial Score30/100
#211
literary-fiction
Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer· 1979
Editorial Score30/100
#212
literary-fiction
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
Cho Nam-joo· 2016
Editorial Score30/100
#213
literary-fiction
The Time of the Doves
Mercè Rodoreda· 1962
Editorial Score30/100
#214
literary-fiction
Nada
Carmen Laforet· 1945
Editorial Score30/100
#215
literary-fiction
The Road from Elephant Pass
Nihal De Silva· 2003
Editorial Score30/100
#216
literary-fiction
Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai· 1994
Editorial Score30/100
#217
literary-fiction
The Wedding of Zein
Tayeb Salih· 1966
Editorial Score30/100
#218
literary-fiction
The Grub Hunter
Amir Tag Elsir· 2010
Editorial Score30/100
#219
classic-literature
Doctor Glas
Hjalmar Söderberg· 1905
Editorial Score30/100
#220
drama
Autumn Sonata
Ingmar Bergman· 1978
Editorial Score30/100
#221
mystery-thriller
The Pledge
Friedrich Dürrenmatt· 1958
Editorial Score30/100
#222
literary-fiction
Homo Faber
Max Frisch· 1957
Editorial Score30/100
#223
literary-fiction
The Shell
Mustafa Khalifa· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#224
literary-fiction
The Dark Side of Love
Rafik Schami· 2004
Editorial Score30/100
#225
literary-fiction
The Man with the Compound Eyes
Wu Ming-Yi· 2011
Editorial Score30/100
#226
short-stories
The Taste of Apples
Huang Chun-ming· 1972
Editorial Score30/100
#227
literary-fiction
The Judgment
Chart Korbjitti· 1981
Editorial Score30/100
#228
literary-fiction
The Scents of Marie-Claire
Habib Selmi· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#229
literary-fiction
The Season of Migration to the North
Tahar Ben Jelloun· 1989
Editorial Score30/100
#230
poetry
Song of Lawino
Okot p'Bitek· 1966
Editorial Score30/100
#231
classic-literature
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov· 1925
Editorial Score30/100
#232
literary-fiction
Grey Bees
Andrey Kurkov· 2018
Editorial Score30/100
#233
literary-fiction
The Occasional Virgin
Hanan Al-Shaykh· 2018
Editorial Score30/100
#234
classic-literature
Animal Farm
George Orwell· 1945
Editorial Score30/100
#235
classic-literature
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison· 1970
Editorial Score30/100
#236
literary-fiction
The Truce
Mario Benedetti· 1960
Editorial Score30/100
#237
literary-fiction
The Shipyard
Juan Carlos Onetti· 1961
Editorial Score30/100
#238
historical-fiction
The Devils' Dance
Hamid Ismailov· 2016
Editorial Score30/100
#239
classic-literature
Doña Bárbara
Rómulo Gallegos· 1929
Editorial Score30/100
#240
historical-fiction
The Sorrow of War
Bảo Ninh· 1990
Editorial Score30/100
#241
mystery-thriller
A Land Without Jasmine
Wajdi al-Ahdal· 2012
Editorial Score30/100
#242
literary-fiction
Black Taste, Black Odour
Ali Al-Muqri· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#243
poetry
The Garden of Fools
Kayo Chingonyi· 2021
Editorial Score30/100
#244
biography-memoir
A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid· 1988
Editorial Score30/100
#245
literary-fiction
Zemi
Patricia Glinton-Meicholas· 2000
Editorial Score30/100
#246
biography-memoir
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
Austin Clarke· 1980
Editorial Score30/100
#247
short-stories
The Sun's Eye
Anne Walmsley· 1968
Editorial Score30/100
#248
literary-fiction
The Circle of Karma
Kunzang Choden· 2005
Editorial Score30/100
#249
classic-literature
Chiquinho
Baltasar Lopes da Silva· 1947
Editorial Score30/100
#250
literary-fiction
The Silence of the Forest
Étienne Goyémidé· 1984
Editorial Score30/100
#251
history
The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja· 2002
Editorial Score30/100
#252
literary-fiction
In the United States of Africa
Abdourahman A. Waberi· 2006
Editorial Score30/100
#253
biography-memoir
The Crossing
Luis Cardoso· 2000
Editorial Score30/100
#254
literary-fiction
La Última Carta del Padre
Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo· 1985
Editorial Score30/100
#255
anthology
Antología de la Literatura Guineana
Maximiliano Nkogo Esono· 2000
Editorial Score30/100
#256
literary-fiction
Weeding the Flowerbeds
Sarah Mkhonza· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#257
literary-fiction
The Fury and Cries of Women
Angèle Rawiri· 1989
Editorial Score30/100
#258
mystery-thriller
The Bone Readers
Jacob Ross· 2016
Editorial Score30/100
#259
biography-memoir
The Dark Child
Camara Laye· 1953
Editorial Score30/100
#260
literary-fiction
The Radiance of the King
Camara Laye· 1954
Editorial Score30/100
#261
literary-fiction
The Last Flight of the Flamingo
Mia Couto· 2000
Editorial Score30/100
#262
poetry
The Guardian of the Word
Odete Semedo· 2005
Editorial Score30/100
#263
literary-fiction
The Ventriloquist's Tale
Pauline Melville· 1997
Editorial Score30/100
#264
classic-literature
Chaka
Thomas Mofolo· 1925
Editorial Score30/100
#265
historical-fiction
The Last Liechtensteiner
Armin Öhri· 2010
Editorial Score30/100
#266
poetry
The Island of the Sleeping Lady
Emelihter Kihleng· 2008
Editorial Score30/100
#267
literary-fiction
The Crocodile
Vincent Eri· 1970
Editorial Score30/100
#268
historical-fiction
The Cost of Sugar
Cynthia McLeod· 1987
Editorial Score30/100
#269
religion-spirituality
Laudato Si'
Pope Francis· 2015
Editorial Score30/100
#270
poetry
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot· 1922
Guardian 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score21/100
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