Crash
British novelist, 1930–2009.
Crash is a 1973 novel by JG Ballard.
On 2 of the 19 lists it was eligible for.
The Novel Index earns a small commission if you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you. It never affects our rankings. More about how we earn.
At a glance
- Author
- JG Ballard
- First published
- 1973
- Length
- 208 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Postmodern, Psychological, Speculative
Is Crash worth reading?
2 of the 19 best-of lists it could have made include it: 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 68 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 67 | See the list |
Best edition of Crash
The edition we link to is the Harper Perennial paperback (2008), 208 pages.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial (paperback, 2008)
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN
- 9780007287024
How critics, prizes and readers rate Crash
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 17% of the points available on critics' lists, against 0% on prize lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Crash
If you liked Crash, try Gravity's Rainbow or Tropic of Cancer.
