{"id":708,"date":"2015-12-18T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/?p=708"},"modified":"2015-12-18T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:31:03","slug":"100-greatest-british-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/2015\/12\/18\/100-greatest-british-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Greatest British Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-hero\" title=\"(Credit: Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/wwfeatures\/1600_640\/images\/live\/p0\/3b\/cg\/p03bcgkc.jpg\" alt=\"(Credit: Getty Images)\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the BBC:<\/p>\n<p>100. The Code of the Woosters (PG Wodehouse, 1938)<br \/>\n99. There but for the (Ali Smith, 2011)<br \/>\n98. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry,1947)<br \/>\n97. The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis, 1949-1954)<br \/>\n96. Memoirs of a Survivor (Doris Lessing, 1974)<br \/>\n95. The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi, 1990)<br \/>\n94. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg, 1824)<br \/>\n93. Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954)<br \/>\n92. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons, 1932)<br \/>\n91. The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy, 1922)<br \/>\n90. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins, 1859)<br \/>\n89. The Horse\u2019s Mouth (Joyce Cary, 1944)<br \/>\n88. The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen, 1938)<br \/>\n87. The Old Wives\u2019 Tale (Arnold Bennett,1908)<br \/>\n86. A Legacy (Sybille Bedford, 1956)<br \/>\n85. Regeneration Trilogy (Pat Barker, 1991-1995)<br \/>\n84. Scoop (Evelyn Waugh, 1938)<br \/>\n83. Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope, 1857)<br \/>\n82. The Patrick Melrose Novels (Edward St Aubyn, 1992-2012)<br \/>\n81. The Jewel in the Crown (Paul Scott, 1966)<br \/>\n80. Excellent Women (Barbara Pym, 1952)<br \/>\n79. His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman, 1995-2000)<br \/>\n78. A House for Mr Biswas (VS Naipaul, 1961)<br \/>\n77. Of Human Bondage (W Somerset Maugham, 1915)<br \/>\n76. Small Island (Andrea Levy, 2004)<br \/>\n75. Women in Love (DH Lawrence, 1920)<br \/>\n74. The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy, 1886)<br \/>\n73. The Blue Flower (Penelope Fitzgerald, 1995)<br \/>\n72. The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene, 1948)<br \/>\n71. Old Filth (Jane Gardam, 2004)<br \/>\n70. Daniel Deronda (George Eliot, 1876)<br \/>\n69. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad, 1904)<br \/>\n68. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962)<br \/>\n67. Crash (JG\u00a0 Ballard 1973)<br \/>\n66. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811)<br \/>\n65. Orlando (Virginia Woolf, 1928)<br \/>\n64. The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope, 1875)<br \/>\n63. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark, 1961)<br \/>\n62. Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945)<br \/>\n61. The Sea, The Sea (Iris Murdoch, 1978)<br \/>\n60. Sons and Lovers (DH Lawrence, 1913)<br \/>\n59. The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst, 2004)<br \/>\n58. Loving (Henry Green, 1945)<br \/>\n57. Parade\u2019s End (Ford Madox Ford, 1924-1928)<br \/>\n56. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson, 1985)<br \/>\n55. Gulliver\u2019s Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726)<br \/>\n54. NW (Zadie Smith, 2012)<br \/>\n53. Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966)<br \/>\n52. New Grub Street (George Gissing, 1891)<br \/>\n51. Tess of the d\u2019Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)<br \/>\n50. A Passage to India (EM Forster, 1924)<br \/>\n49. Possession (AS Byatt, 1990)<br \/>\n48. Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis, 1954)<br \/>\n47. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne, 1759)<br \/>\n46. Midnight\u2019s Children (Salman Rushdie, 1981)<br \/>\n45. The Little Stranger \u00a0(Sarah Waters, 2009)<br \/>\n44. Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel, 2009)<br \/>\n43. The Swimming Pool Library (Alan Hollinghurst, 1988)<br \/>\n42. Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)<br \/>\n41. Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens, 1848)<br \/>\n40. Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)<br \/>\n39.\u00a0 The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, 2011)<br \/>\n38. The Passion (Jeanette Winterson, 1987)<br \/>\n37. Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh, 1928)<br \/>\n36. A Dance to the Music of Time (Anthony Powell, 1951-1975)<br \/>\n35. Remainder (Tom McCarthy, 2005)<br \/>\n34. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005)<br \/>\n33. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)<br \/>\n32. A Room with a View (EM Forster, 1908)<br \/>\n31. The End of the Affair (Graham Greene, 1951)<br \/>\n30. Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe, 1722)<br \/>\n29. Brick Lane (Monica Ali, 2003)<br \/>\n28. Villette (Charlotte Bront\u00eb, 1853)<br \/>\n27. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719)<br \/>\n26. The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien, 1954)<br \/>\n25. White Teeth (Zadie Smith, 2000)<br \/>\n24. The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing, 1962)<br \/>\n23. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895)<br \/>\n22. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding, 1749)<br \/>\n21. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899)<br \/>\n20. Persuasion (Jane Austen, 1817)<br \/>\n19. Emma (Jane Austen, 1815)<br \/>\n18. Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989)<br \/>\n17. Howards End (EM Forster, 1910)<br \/>\n16. The Waves (Virginia Woolf, 1931)<br \/>\n15. Atonement (Ian McEwan, 2001)<br \/>\n14. Clarissa (Samuel Richardson,1748)<br \/>\n13. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford, 1915)<br \/>\n12. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949)<br \/>\n11. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)<br \/>\n10. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848)<br \/>\n9. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)<br \/>\n8. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, 1850)<br \/>\n7. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bront\u00eb, 1847)<br \/>\n6. Bleak House (Charles Dickens, 1853)<br \/>\n5. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bront\u00eb, 1847)<br \/>\n4. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861)<br \/>\n3. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)<br \/>\n2. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf, 1927)<br \/>\n1. Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1874)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: 100. The Code of the Woosters (PG Wodehouse, 1938) 99. There but for the (Ali Smith, 2011) 98. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry,1947) 97. The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis, 1949-1954) 96. 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