Best English novels
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Peter Ackroyd: English Music
J G Ballard: Crash
Arnold Bennett: Clayhanger Trilogy
Stella Benson: Tobit Transplanted (US: The Far-Away Bride)
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Mary Butts: Ashe of Rings
A S Byatt: The Virgin in the Garden
Angela Carter: Wise Children
Jonathan Coe: What a Carve Up! (US: The Winshaw Legacy)
Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
Ford Madox Ford: Parade’s End
E. M. Forster: Howards End
John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
William Gerhardie: The Polyglots
Graham Greene: The End of the Affair
Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black
Ian McEwan: The Child in Time
Nicholas Mosley: Hopeful Monsters
Geoff Nicholson: Bleeding London
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast Trilogy
Christopher Priest: The Glamour
Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage
Zadie Smith: White Teeth
Rupert Thomson: Dreams of Leaving
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
Henry Williamson: The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway