Here is the Guardian's 100 Best Novels. I have marked in Bold books I have read (45 titles), and included a link for any reviews on my blog.
- 100 My Antonia by Willa Cather
- 99 The Go-Between by LP Hartley
- 98 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 97 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- 96 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
- 95 The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- 94 The Known World by Edward P Jones
- 93 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- 92 Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
- 91 Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
- 90 Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
- 89 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
- 88 Ragtime by EL Doctorow
- 87 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- 86 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- 85 The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- 84 The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- 83 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- 82 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- 81 Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- 80 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- 79 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- 78 A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
- 77 The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
- 76 Dracula by Bram Stoker
- 75 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- 74 Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- 73 Austerlitz by WG Sebald
- 72 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- 71 Kindred by Octavia E Butler
- 70 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- 69 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 68 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- 67 The Man Without Qualities by Rubert Musil
- 66 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- 65 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- 64 The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- 63 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- 62 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 61 The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
- 60 Howards End by EM Forster
- 59 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 58 Disgrace by JM Coetzee
- 57 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- 56 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- 55 The Waves by Virginia Woolf
- 54 Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- 53 The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
- 52 The Golden Bowl by Henry James
- 51 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferret
- 50 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- 49 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- 48 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- 47 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- 46 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- 45 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- 44 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- 43 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
- 42 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- 41 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- 40 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- 39 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- 38 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- 37 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- 36 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- 35 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- 34 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- 33 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- 32 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- 31 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- 30 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- 29 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- 28 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 27 The Trial by Franz Kafka
- 26 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- 25 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- 24 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 23 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- 22 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- 21 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- 20 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- 19 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
- 18 Persuasion by Jane Austen
- 17 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- 16 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- 15 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- 14 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- 13 Emma by Jane Austen
- 12 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- 11 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- 10 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- 9 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- 8 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- 7 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- 6 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- 5 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- 4 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- 3 Ulysses by James Joyce
- 2 Beloved by Toni Morrison
- 1 Middlemarch by George Eliot
Thrilled that Middlemarch made the number one slot. I love that novel and am overdue for a re-read. I would have added Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth to this list - it is brilliant but often overlooked in favour of The Age of Innocence. Many of these books which I have not read yet are on my Fifty/Five list, which I have barely made a dent in, so better get reading!
Among the 172 contributors were some of my favourite writers - Ian Rankin, Anne Enright, Colm Toibin, Bernardine Evaristo, Ian McEwan, Jennifer Egan, Maggie O'Farrell, Roxane Gay, Sarah Waters and many more. It was fun to see which books they chose as well.