Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Our Group Reads from the Guardian 1000 Sci Fi and Fantasy List

This is the complete list.
The books that we have read will be struck-through with the date read indicated next to the book. Hopefully this will limit confusion when picking books each month.

latest status up to/including "Nights at the Circus" in February 2025:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - November 2024
Non-Stop by Brian W Aldiss
Foundation by Isaac Asimov - February 2014
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
The Drowned World by JG Ballard - January 2022
Crash by JG Ballard
Millennium People by JG Ballard
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - March 2015
Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Vathek by William Beckford
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester - October 2019
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - August/September 2014
Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite
Wieland, or, The Transformation by Charles Brockden Brown
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - November/December 2016
The Coming Race by EGEL Bulwer-Lytton - November 2017
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Kindred by Octavia Butler - June 2018
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino - June 2023
The Influence by Ramsey Campbell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter - February 2025
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter - April 2024
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon - Nov/Dec 2022
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by GK Chesterton - Feb 2023
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G Coney
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation by Marie Darrieussecq
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R Delaney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick - July 2016
Camp Concentration by Thomas M Disch - February 2021
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
The Magus by John Fowles
American Gods by Neil Gaiman - May/June 2014
Red Shift by Alan Garner
Neuromancer by William Gibson - December 2015
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Light by M John Harrison
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein - May 2022
Dune by Frank L Herbert
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse - September 2023
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg - July 2024
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro - Sep/Oct 2021
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Children of Men by PD James - January 2019
After London: or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies
Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Shining by Stephen King
The Victorian Chaise Longue by Marghanita Laski
Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin - May 2015
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem - July 2017
The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - August 2022
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin - April 2020
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - September 2018
Ascent by Jed Mercurio
The Scar by China Mieville
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr - January 2020
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Mother London by Michael Moorcock
News from Nowhere by William Morris
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Vurt by Jeff Noon
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien - August 2020
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1984 by George Orwell
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - May 2021
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth
A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
The Discworld Series (Wyrd Sisters) by Terry Pratchett - March 2016
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Air by Geoff Ryman
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Blindness by Jose Saramago - April 2019
How the Dead Live by Will Self
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hyperion by Dan Simmons - April 2016
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Institute Benjamenta aka Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner - January 2024
Affinity by Sarah Waters - February 2015
The Time Machine by HG Wells - November 2020
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
The Sword in the Stone by TH White
The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - July/August 2015
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham - July 2019
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - February 2018