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On 5 November 2019, the BBC published a list of novels selected by a panel of six writers and critics, who had been asked to choose 100 English language novels 'that have had an impact on their lives'.[1] The resulting list of '100 novels that shaped our world',[1] called the '100 'most inspiring' novels' by BBC News,[2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature.[2][3]
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The list triggered comments from critics and other news agencies.News agencies from outside the United Kingdom, like Canadian broadcaster CBC News and Nigerian news website Legit.ng, profiled authors with works included in the list who were nationals of their countries.[4][5]The Guardian noted surprising titles missing from the list, like Moby-Dick,[6] and writing in The Daily Telegraph, Jake Kerridge called it 'a short-sighted list that will please nobody.'[7]
The BBC relied on six experts: Stig Abell, Mariella Frostrup, Juno Dawson, Kit de Waal, Alexander McCall Smith and Syima Aslam.[4][6] The CBC characterized the panel as composed of 'writers, curators and critics'.[4] According to The Guardian, the list commemorated the publication of Robinson Crusoe, 300 years earlier – 'widely seen as the progenitor of the English-language novel'.[6]
The panel broke their list into ten categories of ten novels each.[1]

Title | Author | First published[8] | BBC category | Author's nationality |
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Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | Identity | American |
Days Without End | Sebastian Barry | 2016 | Identity | Irish |
Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels | 1996 | Identity | Canadian |
Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2006 | Identity | Nigerian |
Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | 2016 | Identity | Ghanaian-American |
Small Island | Andrea Levy | 2004 | Identity | British |
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 1963 | Identity | American |
The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 1997 | Identity | Indian |
Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 1958 | Identity | Nigerian |
White Teeth | Zadie Smith | 2000 | Identity | British |
Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding | 1996 | Love, Sex & Romance | British |
Forever... | Judy Blume | 1975 | Love, Sex & Romance | American |
Giovanni's Room | James Baldwin | 1956 | Love, Sex & Romance | American |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | Love, Sex & Romance | British |
Riders | Jilly Cooper | 1985 | Love, Sex & Romance | British |
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 1937 | Love, Sex & Romance | American |
The Far Pavilions | M. M. Kaye | 1978 | Love, Sex & Romance | British |
The Forty Rules of Love | Elif Shafak | 2009 | Love, Sex & Romance | Turkish |
The Passion | Jeanette Winterson | 1987 | Love, Sex & Romance | British |
The Slaves of Solitude | Patrick Hamilton | 1947 | Love, Sex & Romance | British |
City of Bohane | Kevin Barry | 2011 | Adventure | Irish |
Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | 1978 | Adventure | British |
For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 1940 | Adventure | American |
His Dark Materials Trilogy | Philip Pullman | 1995 | Adventure | British |
Ivanhoe | Walter Scott | 1819 | Adventure | British |
Mr Standfast | John Buchan | 1919 | Adventure | British |
The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 1939 | Adventure | American |
The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | 2008 | Adventure | American |
The Jack Aubrey Novels | Patrick O’Brian | 1969 | Adventure | British |
The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1954 | Adventure | British |
A Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin | 1996 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | American |
Astonishing the Gods | Ben Okri | 1995 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | Nigerian |
Dune | Frank Herbert | 1966 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | American |
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | British |
Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 2004 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | American |
The Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis | 1950 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | British |
The Discworld Series | Terry Pratchett | 1983 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | British |
The Earthsea Trilogy | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1968 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | American |
The Sandman Series | Neil Gaiman | 1989 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | British |
The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 2006 | Life, Death & Other Worlds | American |
A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | 2007 | Politics, Power & Protest | Afghan-American |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | Politics, Power & Protest | British |
Home Fire | Kamila Shamsie | 2017 | Politics, Power & Protest | British |
Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1954 | Politics, Power & Protest | British |
Noughts & Crosses | Malorie Blackman | 2001 | Politics, Power & Protest | British |
Strumpet City | James Plunkett | 1979 | Politics, Power & Protest | Irish |
The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 1982 | Politics, Power & Protest | American |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | Politics, Power & Protest | American |
V for Vendetta | Alan Moore | 1982 | Politics, Power & Protest | British |
Unless | Carol Shields | 2002 | Politics, Power & Protest | Canadian |
A House for Mr Biswas | V. S. Naipaul | 1961 | Class & Society | Trinidadian |
Cannery Row | John Steinbeck | 1945 | Class & Society | American |
Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee | 1999 | Class & Society | South-African |
Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | 1864 | Class & Society | British |
Poor Cow | Nell Dunn | 1967 | Class & Society | British |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Alan Sillitoe | 1958 | Class & Society | British |
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Brian Moore | 1955 | Class & Society | British-Canadian |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | 1961 | Class & Society | British |
The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1989 | Class & Society | British |
Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | 1966 | Class & Society | British |
Emily of New Moon | L. M. Montgomery | 1923 | Coming of Age | Canadian |
Golden Child | Claire Adam | 2019 | Coming of Age | Trinidadian |
Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | 2003 | Coming of Age | Canadian |
So Long, See You Tomorrow | William Maxwell | 1979 | Coming of Age | American |
Swami and Friends | R. K. Narayan | 1935 | Coming of Age | Indian |
The Country Girls | Edna O’Brien | 1960 | Coming of Age | Irish |
Harry Potter series | J. K. Rowling | 1997 | Coming of Age | British |
The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton | 1967 | Coming of Age | American |
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ | Sue Townsend | 1982 | Coming of Age | British |
The Twilight Saga | Stephenie Meyer | 2005 | Coming of Age | American |
A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 1993 | Family & Friendship | Indian |
Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild | 1935 | Family & Friendship | British |
Cloudstreet | Tim Winton | 1991 | Family & Friendship | Australian |
Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 1932 | Family & Friendship | British |
I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith | 1948 | Family & Friendship | British |
Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1871 | Family & Friendship | British |
Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin | 1978 | Family & Friendship | American |
The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | 1993 | Family & Friendship | American |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë | 1848 | Family & Friendship | British |
The Witches | Roald Dahl | 1983 | Family & Friendship | British |
American Tabloid | James Ellroy | 1995 | Crime & Conflict | American |
American War | Omar El Akkad | 2017 | Crime & Conflict | Egyptian-Canadian |
Ice Candy Man | Bapsi Sidhwa | 1988 | Crime & Conflict | British |
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 1938 | Crime & Conflict | British |
Regeneration | Pat Barker | 1991 | Crime & Conflict | British |
The Children of Men | P.D. James | 1992 | Crime & Conflict | British |
The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1901 | Crime & Conflict | British |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | 2007 | Crime & Conflict | Pakistani |
The Talented Mr. Ripley | Patricia Highsmith | 1955 | Crime & Conflict | American |
The Quiet American | Graham Greene | 1955 | Crime & Conflict | British |
A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 1980 | Rule Breakers | American |
Bartleby, the Scrivener | Herman Melville | 1853 | Rule Breakers | American |
Habibi | Craig Thompson | 2011 | Rule Breakers | American |
How to Be Both | Ali Smith | 2014 | Rule Breakers | British |
Orlando | Virginia Woolf | 1928 | Rule Breakers | British |
Nights at the Circus | Angela Carter | 1984 | Rule Breakers | British |
Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 1949 | Rule Breakers | British |
Psmith, Journalist | P. G. Wodehouse | 1909 | Rule Breakers | British |
The Moor's Last Sigh | Salman Rushdie | 1995 | Rule Breakers | British |
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name | Audre Lorde | 1982 | Rule Breakers | American |
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- ^ abc'Explore the list of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. BBC Arts. BBC. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- ^ abc'100 'most inspiring' novels revealed by BBC Arts'. BBC News. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
The reveal kickstarts the BBC's year-long celebration of literature.
- ^Sarakshi Rai (2019-11-07). 'These are the 100 novels that have shaped our world, according to the BBC: How many of these books have you read?'. Esquire magazine. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
These novels have all sparked 'debate about the novels that have had a big impact on us all personally and culturally'.
- ^ abc'Margaret Atwood, L.M. Montgomery, Carol Shields featured on BBC's list of 100 novels that shaped the world'. CBC News. 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
Five Canadian books are on the list: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, Unless by Carol Shields, Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and American War by Omar El Akkad.
- ^Sola Budunrin (2019-11-10). 'Things Fall Apart, Half of A Yellow Sun named in the list of 100 novels that shaped the world'. Legit.ng. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe and Ben Okri's novels made the list of 100 novels that shaped the world.
- ^ abcAlison Flood (2019-11-05). 'Discworld dishes Moby-Dick: BBC unveils 100 'novels that shaped our world''. The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
There’s no Wuthering Heights, no Moby-Dick, no Ulysses, but there is Half of a Yellow Sun, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Discworld: so announced the panel of experts assembled by the BBC to draw up a list of 100 novels that shaped their world.
- ^Kerridge, Jake (November 5, 2019). 'The BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World is a short-sighted list that will please nobody' – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^When the BBC listed a series, the date is the publication of the first novel.
Author | Martin Seymour-Smith |
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Cover artist | Francis Cugat |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Published | September 1998, Citadel |
Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
ISBN | 978-0806520001 |
OCLC | 38258131 |
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.[1]
The list includes books such as the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the 'Old Testament' of the Christian Bible), the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), Candide (a French satire from the Age of Enlightenment) and The World as Will and Representation (a book of German philosophy).
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- The I Ching, by King Wen of Zhou and the Duke of Zhou (according to tradition); Compilation of classic Chinese texts
- The Hebrew Bible, by several authors; Compilation of classic Hebrew books
- The Iliad and Odyssey, by Homer (according to tradition)
- The Upanishads, by several authors (Rishis [sages]); Compilation of classic Indian books
- Tao Te Ching, by Laozi
- The Avesta, by several authors (including Zoroaster); Compilation of classic Persian books
- Analects, by Confucius
- History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
- Hippocratic Corpus, several authors, one of whom is Hippocrates, who gives the collection its name.
- Corpus Aristotelicum, by Aristotle, compilation of books of the author
- Histories, by Herodotus
- Republic, by Plato
- Elements, by Euclid
- The Dhammapada, by Siddartha Gautama
- Aeneid, by Virgil
- De rerum natura, by Lucretius
- Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, by Philo of Alexandria
- The New Testament, by Saint Paul and other authors; compilation of early Christian writings
- Parallel Lives, by Plutarch
- Annals, by Cornelius Tacitus
- Gospel of Truth, by Valentinus
- Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism, by Sextus Empiricus
- The Enneads, by Plotinus
- Confessions, by Augustine of Hippo
- The Quran, traditionally believed to have been dictated to Mohammad by Allah, later written down by early Muslims; definitive text produced by Uthman ibn Affan
- The Guide for the Perplexed, by Moses Maimonides
- The Zohar, by several authors; Compilation of texts of the Kabbalah
- Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas
- Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
- In Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus
- The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
- On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, by Martin Luther
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, by François Rabelais
- Institutes of the Christian Religion, by John Calvin
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, by Nicolaus Copernicus
- Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
- Harmonices Mundi, by Johannes Kepler
- Novum Organum, by Francis Bacon
- The First Folio, by William Shakespeare, compilation of works of the author
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, by Galileo Galilei
- Discourse on the Method, by René Descartes
- Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
- Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Pensées, by Blaise Pascal
- Ethics, by Baruch de Spinoza
- The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, by Isaac Newton
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
- The New Science, by Giambattista Vico
- A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
- Encyclopédie, by Denis Diderot
- A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson
- Candide, by François-Marie de Voltaire
- Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
- The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
- Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant
- Confessions, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, by William Godwin
- An Essay on the Principle of Population, by Thomas Robert Malthus
- The Phenomenology of Spirit, by George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- The World as Will and Representation, by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Course of Positive Philosophy, by Auguste Comte
- On War, by Carl von Clausewitz
- Either/Or, by Søren Kierkegaard
- The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
- On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
- On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
- First Principles of a New System of Philosophy, Herbert Spencer
- Experiments on Plant Hybridization, by Gregor Mendel
- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
- Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud
- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, by William James
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, by Albert Einstein
- The Mind and Society, by Vilfredo Pareto
- Psychological Types, by Carl Gustav Jung
- I and Thou, by Martin Buber
- The Trial, by Franz Kafka
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
- Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich von Hayek
- The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
- Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, by Norbert Wiener
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
- Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
- Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Syntactic Structures, by Noam Chomsky
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by T. S. Kuhn
- The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
- The Little Red Book, by Mao Zedong
- Beyond Freedom and Dignity, by B. F. Skinner

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- ^Seymour-Smith, Martin (1998). The 100 most influential books ever written : the history of thought from ancient times to today. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publ. Group. ISBN978-0806520001. OCLC38258131.
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