100

Rank

Title of Great Novel

Year

Author

Cervantes, Miguel de (15471616)

Don Quixote

1605, 1630

War and Peace ( )

1869

Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich

(1828-1910)

Ulysses

1922

Joyce, James (1859-1927)

In Search of Lost Time (

1913-27
)

Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)

The Brothers Karamazov (

)

1880

Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Mikhailovich (1821-1881)

Moby-Dick ( )

1851

Melville, Herman (1874-1965)

Madame Bovary (
)

1857

Middlemarch

1871-72

The Magic Mountain ( ) 1924

10

The Tale of Genji ( )

11th
Century

11

Emma

1816

12

Bleak House ( )

1852-53

13

Anna Karenina

1877

Leo Tolstoy

14

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

( )

1884

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

15

Tom Jones

1749

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

16

Great Expectations (
)

1860-61

Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880)

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

Mann, Thomas (1875-1955)

Murasaki Shikibu (978?-1026?)

Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

Charles Dickens

17

Absalom, Absalom!

1936

Faulkner, William (1897-1962)

18

The Ambassadors ( ) 1903

19

One Hundred Years of Solitude

( )

1967

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (1928-)

20

The Great Gatsby ( )

1925

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

21

To The Lighthouse (
1927
)

22

Crime and Punishment ( )

1866

Feodor Dostoevsky

23

The Sound and the Fury (

)

1929

William Faulkner

24

Vanity Fair (
)

1847-48

25

Invisible Man ( )

1952

Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994)

26

Finnegans Wake (
)

1939

James Joyce

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)

Thackeray, William Makepeace

(1811-63)

27

The Man Without Qualities (

1930-43
)

Robert Musil (18801942)

28

Gravity's Rainbow (
)

Pynchon, Thomas (1937-)

29

The Portrait of a Lady (

1881
)

30

Women in Love (
)

1920

Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930)

31

The Red and the Black (

1830
)

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

(1783-1842)

32

Tristram Shandy

1760-67

Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)

33

Dead Souls ( )

1842

Gogol, Nikolay (1809-1852)

34

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

( )

1891

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

35

Buddenbrooks

1901

Thomas Mann

36

Le Pere Goriot ( )

1835

Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850)

1973

Henry James

37

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young

Man ( )

1916

James Joyce

38

Wuthering Heights (
)

1847

Bronte, Emily (Jane) (18181848)

39

The Tin Drum ( )

1959

Grass, Gunter (1927-)

40

Molloy; Malone Dies; The

Unnamable (,
, )

1951-53

41

Pride and Prejudice (

)

1813

Jane Austen

42

The Scarlet Letter (

)

1850

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (18041864)

43

Fathers and Sons ( )

1862

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich

(1818-1883)

44

Nostromo

1904

Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)

45

Beloved ( )

1987

Morrison, Toni (1931-)

Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)

46

An American Tragedy (
1925
)

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

47

Lolita

1955

Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)

48

The Golden Notebook (

)

1962

Lessing, Doris (1919-)

49

Clarissa

1747-48

50

Dream of the Red Chamber (

1791
)

Cao Xueqin (17191763)

51

The Trial ()

1925

Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)

52

Jane Eyre

1847

Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)

Richardson, Samuel (16891761)

53

The Red Badge of Courage (

)

1895

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

54

The Grapes of Wrath (

)

1939

Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)

55

Petersburg ()

1916/1922

56

Things Fall Apart (

)

1958

Achebe, Chinua (1930)

57

The Princess of Cleves (

)

1678

La Fayette, Marie Madeleine

(1634-1693)

58

The Stranger ( )

1942

Camus, Albert (1913-1960)

59

My Antonia ( )

1918

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Andrey Bely

60

The Counterfeiters (
)

1926

Gide, Andre (1869-1951)

61

The Age of Innocence (

)

1920

Wharton, Edith Newbold (18621937)

62

The Good Soldier ( )

1915

Ford, Madox Ford (1873-1939)

63

The Awakening ()

1899

64

A Passage to India (
1924
)

Forster, E.M. (1879-1970)

65

Herzog

1964

Bellow, Saul (1915-2005)

66

Germinal

1855

Zola, Emile (1840-1902)

67

Call It Sleep

1934

Henry Roth

Chopin, Kate (1850-1904)

68

U.S.A. Trilogy

1930-38

Dos Passos, John (1896-1970)

69

Hunger ()

1890

Hamsun, Knut (1859-1952)

70

Berlin Alexanderplatz

1929

Doblin, Alfred (1878-1957)

71

Cities of Salt ( )

1984-89

'Abd al-Rahman Munif

72

The Death of Artemio Cruz

( )

1962

Fuentes, Carlos (1928-)

73

A Farewell to Arms (
)

1929

Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)

74

Brideshead Revisited (
1945
)

75

The Last Chronicle of Barset

( )

1866-67

Anthony Trollope

76

The Pickwick Papers (

)

1836-67

Charles Dickens

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-66)

77

Robinson Crusoe

1719

Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)

78

The Sorrows of Young Werther

( )

1774

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

(1749-1832)

79

Candide

1759

Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet

(1694-1778)

80

Native Son (
)

1940

Wright, Richard (1908-1960)

81

Under the Volcano (

)

1947

Lowry, Malcolm (1909-57)

82

Oblomov

1859

Goncharov, Ivan
Aleksandrovich (1812-1891)

83

Their Eyes Were Watching God

(
)

1937

Hurston, Zora Neale (18911960)

84

Waverley

1814

Scott, Walter (1771-1832)

85

Snow Country ( )

1937, 1948

Yasunari, Kawabata (18991972)

86

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

1949

Orwell, George (1903-1950)

87

The Betrothed ( )

1827, 1840

Manzoni, Alessandro (17851873)

88

The Last of the Mohicans

( )

1826

Cooper, James Fenimore (17891851)

89

Uncle Tom's Cabin (

)

1852

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (18111896)

90

Les Miserables (
)

1862

Hugo, Victor Marie (1802-1885)

91

On the Road ( )

1957

Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969)

92

Frankenstein ()

1818

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

(1797-1851)

93

The Leopard ()

1958

94

The Catcher in the Rye (

)

1951

Salinger, Jerome David (1919-)

95

The Woman in White (

)

1860

Collins, Wilkie (1824-89)

96

The Good Soldier Svejk (

)

1921-23

97

Dracula

1897

Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)

98

The Three Musketeers (

)

1844

Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870)

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi

Di (18961957)

Jaroslav Hasek

99

The Hound of Baskervilles

( )

1902

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (18591930)

100

Gone with the Wind (

)

1936

Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949)

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