The Telegraph’s “100 novels everyone should read” challenge

I’m going to read (or re-read) every novel on this list over the coming weeks. You can track my progress on twitter #100novels, and I’ll update this page with links to each of my reviews as we go on.

• • 100. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein Read the review
  • 99 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Read the review
  • 98 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore Read the review
  • 97 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Read the review
  • 96 One Thousand and One Nights Anon Read the review
  • 95 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read the review
  • 94 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Read the review
  • 93 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré Read the review
  • 92 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Read the review
  • 91 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Read the review
  • 90 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch Read the review
  • 89 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Read the review
  • 88 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin Read the review
  • 87 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • 86 Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac Read the review
  • 85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  • 84 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  • 83 Germinal by Emile Zola
  • 82 The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • 81The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  • 80 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
  • 79 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • 78 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • 77 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • 76 The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • 75 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
  • 74 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan
  • 73 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
  • 72 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
  • 71 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
  • 70 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  • 69 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
  • 68 Crash by JG Ballard
  • 67 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
  • 66 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • 65 Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  • 64 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
  • 63 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 62 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • 61 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
  • 60 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • 59 London Fields by Martin Amis
  • 58 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
  • 57 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
  • 56 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
  • 55 Austerlitz by WG Sebald
  • 54 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • 53 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • 52 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • 51 Underworld by Don DeLillo
  • 50 Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • 49 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • 48 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
  • 47The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  • 46 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  • 45 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • 44 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 43 The Rabbit books by John Updike
  • 42 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • 41 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 40 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  • 39 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • 38The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  • 37 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  • 36 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  • 35 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  • 34 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
  • 33 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
  • 32 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
  • 31 Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
  • 30 Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • 29 Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
  • 28 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • 27 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • 26 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • 25 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  • 24 Ulysses by James Joyce
  • 23 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • 22 A Passage to India by EM Forster
  • 21 1984 by George Orwell
  • 20 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  • 19 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
  • 18 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
  • 17 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • 16 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
  • 15 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
  • 14 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • 13 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • 12 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • 11 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • 10 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  • 9 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • 8 Disgrace by JM Coetzee
  • 7 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • 6 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  • 5 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • 4 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  • 3 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • 2 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • 1 Middlemarch by George Eliot