Writers, curators and critics, including Mariella Frostrup, selected the 100 English language Novels That Shaped Our World. The list also includes Jilly Cooper's Riders and Zadie Smith's White Teeth.

A benchmark corpus of 100 English novels, covering the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It contains novels by 33 authors (1/3 female writers, 2/3 male writers), and one anonymous (well, not ...