Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”

As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below: 1. Middlemarch – George Eliot2. Beloved – Toni Morrison3. Ulysses – James Joyce4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens13. Emma – Jane Austen14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez18. Persuasion – Jane Austen19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne20. Wuthering Heights – Emily…