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The Guardian’s 100 Best English-Language Novels

Comentário de Jared Henderson: The Guardian’s 100 Best English-Language Books and the Funny Thing about Lists

Henderson argumenta que as listas individuais dos juízes revelam muito mais do que a lista agregada — as idiossincrasias pessoais são o dado interessante, não o consenso.

Top 10 do Guardian

1. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
2. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
4. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
6. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
7. Beloved – Toni Morrison
8. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
9. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
10. Middlemarch – George Eliot

Top 10 de Jared Henderson (pessoal)

1. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville ← também em Dez Romances Perfeitos
2. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
3. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John Le Carré
4. The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
5. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
6. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges ← na lista de estudo de 2026
7. Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe
9. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
10. Anathem – Neal Stephenson

Top 10 de Ian McEwan

1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
3. In Search of Lost Time – Proust
4. Don Quixote – Cervantes
5. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
6. The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky
7. Dead Souls – Gogol
8. Hamlet – Shakespeare
9. King Lear – Shakespeare
10. The Idiot – Dostoevsky

Top 10 de RF Kuang

1. The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
4. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
5. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
6. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
7. A Room with a View – E.M. Forster
8. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
9. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
10. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin

Top 10 de Stephen King

1. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
2. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
3. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
4. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
5. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
6. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
8. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John Le Carré
9. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
10. Animal Farm – George Orwell

Padrões entre as listas

• Moby-Dick aparece em Henderson e em Alex Castro — consenso raro entre listas muito diferentes
• Ficciones (Borges) aparece em Henderson — conecta ao plano de estudos 2026
• Ursula K. LeGuin aparece tanto em Henderson quanto em Kuang
• Dostoevsky domina as listas dos juízes individuais mais do que a lista agregada do Guardian