What are the best British novels? I'm just starting to read again and want some literature from my own nation...

Ireland has always and will always belong to the British.

I second remains of the day also anything else by Ishiguro, although most of it is really more Japanese.

>Ireland has always and will always belong to the British.
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pretty obviously Middlemarch.

Probably Tale of Two Cities

quite, although i prefer the modern adaptation, "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air"

T Shandy, baby.

Middlemarch is the Great British Novel.

Wuthering Heights. To The Lighthouse. Loads of Dickens.

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Thanks for the responses lads.

keats, donne, shakespeare, swift, spenser, ben jonson, bunyan, pope, fielding, defoe, wordsworth, shelley, sterne, blake, elliot, dickens, c. bronte, hardy, tennyson, browning, rossetti, wyndham lewis, wilfred owen, auden, woolf, chesterton, waugh, coward, rushdie, j.h.prynne, tom raworth, roy fisher, ted hughes, larkin

Keith Ridgeway; Animals or Hawthorne and Child, V underated, like Paul Austre but with more weirdness and less playfulness.