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I have read 18 of them:
25. White Teeth (Zadie Smith, 2000)
23. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895)
20. Persuasion (Jane Austen, 1817)
19. Emma (Jane Austen, 1815)
18. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989)
17. Howards End (EM Forster, 1910)
15. Atonement (Ian McEwan, 2001)
12. Nineteen Eighty-four (George Orwell, 1949)
11. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)
10. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848)
9. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
8. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, 1850)
7. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontė, 1847)
6. Bleak House (Charles Dickens, 1853)
5. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontė, 1847)
4. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861)
3. Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
1. Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1874)
I would have chosen Vanity Fair as number 1, although Middlemarch would have been my number 2 so not that bad either.
19th Century being very much my period, novel wise (and that applies to French and Spanish novels) I am quite happy to see this list as it is....
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