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'The Times' 50 Greatest British Writers..

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1. Philip Larkin

One to read: The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

8.4

2. George Orwell

One to read: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

7.4

3. William Golding

One to read: To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (1980-89, which includes Rites of Passage)

4. Ted Hughes

One to read: Crow (1972)

5. Doris Lessing

One to read: The Golden Notebook (1961)

8.7

6. J.R.R. Tolkien

One to read: The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)

7. V.S. Naipaul

One to read: In a Free State (1971)

5.3

8. Muriel Spark

One to read: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

9. Kingsley Amis

One to read: Take a Girl Like You (1960)

10. Angela Carter

One to read: The Bloody Chamber (1979)

7.7

11. C.S. Lewis

One to read: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

12. Iris Murdoch

One to read: The Sea, The Sea (1978)

6.8

13. Salman Rushdie

One to read: Midnight’s Children (1981)

6.8

14. Ian Fleming

One to read: Casino Royale (1953)

15. Jan Morris

One to read: Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968)

8.6

16. Roald Dahl

One to read: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)

7.3

17. Anthony Burgess

One to read: The Wanting Seed (1956)

9.5

18. Mervyn Peake

Read: The Gormenghast trilogy (1946-59)

19. Martin Amis

One to read: Money (1984)

20. Anthony Powell

Read: The series A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75)

7.5

21. Alan Sillitoe

One to read: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959)

22. John Le Carre

One to read: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963)

23. Penelope Fitzgerald

One to read: The Blue Flower (1995)

24. Philippa Pearce

One to read: Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)

25. Barbara Pym

One to read: Excellent Women (1952)

26. Beryl Bainbridge

One to read: The Birthday Boys (1991)

27. J. G. Ballard

One to read: Crash (1973)

28. Alan Garner

One to read: The Owl Service (1967)

29. Alasdair Gray

One to read: Lanark (1981)

9.5

30. John Fowles

One to read: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)

31. Derek Walcott

One to read: Omeros (1989)

7.5

32. Kazuo Ishiguro

One to read: The Remains of the Day (1989)

33. Anita Brookner

One to read: Hotel Du Lac (1984)

34. A. S. Byatt

One to read: The Virgin in the Garden (1978)

8.4

35. Ian McEwan

One to read: The Child in Time (1987)

36. Geoffrey Hill

One to read: Mercian Hymns (1971)

9.5

37. Hanif Kureishi

One to read: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)

38. Iain Banks

One to read: The Wasp Factory (1984)

39. George Mackay Brown

One to read: Magnus (1973)

40. A. J. P. Taylor

One to read: The Trouble Makers (1957)

41. Isaiah Berlin

One to read: Russian Thinkers — which includes the essay The Hedgehog and the Fox (1978)

7.8

42. J. K. Rowling

One to read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997)

43. Philip Pullman

One to read: Northern Lights (1996)

44. Julian Barnes

One to read: Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)

45. Colin Thubron

One to read: In Siberia (1999)

46. Bruce Chatwin

One to read: On the Black Hill (1982)

47. Alice Oswald

One to read: Dart (2002)

48. Benjamin Zephaniah

One to read: Propa Propaganda (1996)

49. Rosemary Sutcliff

One to read: The Eagle of the Ninth (1954)

7.3

50. Michael Moorcock

One to read: Mother London (1988)

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