This is the author's choice of the 100 best English language novels spanning 400 years.. Each entry has a two page critique of the book in question. His selection touches on both the classics and literary gems that may have escaped our notice.
From 1980 to 1996, Robert McCrum was editor-in-chief of Faber & Faber, where he published Kazuo Ishiguro, Milan Kundera, Peter Carey, Paul Auster, Marilynne Robinson, Lorrie Moore, Adam Phillips and Hanif Kureishi. At the same time, he wrote seven novels, and co-authored the BBC TV series, The Story Of English, for which he was awarded an Emmy in 1986.
