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This list is based on what Sarah Bakewell added to the list when The Guardian made a list in May 2026: www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time#sarah-bakewell.
The list also includes the Musil book, one that Sarah should have added (her own words).
The Magic Mountain von Thomas Mann
4 Sterne
One of the most influential and celebrated German works of the 20th century has been newly rendered in English by …
"The novel I reread more than any other, running the gamut of lust, politics, romanticism and science. Like a lot of books that are considered humourless, it's also full of humour."
In Search of Lost Time von Marcel Proust
5 Sterne
In Search of Lost Time, novel in seven parts by French author Marcel Proust, published in French as À la …
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) von Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, also known as Tristram Shandy, is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It …
"Gleeful 18th-century literary fun, never bettered."
"As with so many good novels, the bad bits are a bore and the good bits are sublime."
Life and Fate von Vasily Semyonovich Grossman
5 Sterne
Life and Fate (Russian: Жизнь и судьба) is a novel by Vasily Grossman, written in the Soviet Union in 1959 …
"The 20th century in a (large) nutshell."
"It never, unfortunately, seems to become less relevant."
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland von Lewis Carroll, A. R. S. BEL, Ferdinand Du Chevalier
4 Sterne
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl …
"Simply a delight."
Middlemarch von George Eliot (Penguin Classics)
5 Sterne
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several …
"All life is here – slightly marred by its over-earnest protagonist, although there are funny bits too."
Howards End von Edward Morgan Forster
Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, about social conventions, codes of conduct and …
"Human connection and disconnection: humanism in novel form."
"I loved this as a teenager and love it still, for its lush language, its wit, and the vivid mental pictures it leaves with you for a lifetime."
The Man Without Qualities von Robert Musil
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, …
