About The Novel Index

The Novel Index combines 30 of the most respected best-of lists, prizes and reader polls into one guide to the novels everyone agrees you should read. Every book here is on several of those lists, from the Booker Prize and the Guardian’s greatest novels to the BBC’s Big Read. We pick the best place to start with each author, the right translation of the big Russian novels, and the new books the lists are starting to agree on. Buying through our Bookshop.org links supports independent bookshops as well as us.