What is the best Virginia Woolf novel?

Nine novels, and hardly two of them work the same way. Is the experiment the point, or do you want a story you can actually hold on to?

1. 1
   Mrs Dalloway

   1925 novel following Clarissa Dalloway through a single June day in London as she prepares for a party.
   1000pts
2. 2
   To the Lighthouse

   1927 novel about the Ramsay family's summers on the Isle of Skye, split by the First World War.
   500pts
3. 3
   Jacob's Room

   1922 novel sketching the life of Jacob Flanders through the people around him, her first modernist breakthrough.
   500pts
4. 4
   The Waves

   1931 experimental novel told through the interior soliloquies of six friends.
   499pts
5. 5
   Between the Acts

   Her final novel, published in 1941, set during a village pageant on the eve of war.
   389pts
6. 6
   The Years

   1937 family chronicle of the Pargiters from 1880 to the 1930s, her bestseller in her lifetime.
   389pts
7. 7
   The Voyage Out

   Her 1915 debut novel about a young woman's sea voyage to South America.
   388pts
8. 8
   Orlando

   1928 mock biography of a poet who lives for centuries and changes sex, inspired by Vita Sackville-West.
   388pts
9. 9
   Night and Day

   1919 comedy of manners about love and marriage among Edwardian Londoners.
   0pts

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