Shannon's "100 Best Novels: A Distilled List"

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This is a selected list of 100+ novels that have appeared on prominent "100 best novels" lists, both popular and critical. I won’t say I enjoyed all of these books, but if you are looking for a definitive reading list, this is a good starting point.

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  1. 1.
    The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

  2. 2.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

  3. 3.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  4. 4.
    Bastard out of Carolina: (Plume Essential Edition)
    by Dorothy Allison

  5. 5.
    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

  6. 6.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

  7. 7.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

  8. 8.
    Oryx and Crake
    by Margaret Atwood

  9. 9.
    The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, Book One)
    by Jean M. Auel

  10. 10.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  11. 11.
    Persuasion
    by Jane Austen

  12. 12.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  13. 13.
    Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    by Judy Blume

  14. 14.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  15. 15.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)

  16. 16.
    Wuthering Heights
    by Emily Bronte

  17. 17.
    Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
    by Geraldine Brooks

  18. 18.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

  19. 19.
    A Clockwork Orange (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Anthony Burgess

  20. 20.
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt

  21. 21.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  22. 22.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  23. 24.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

  24. 25.

  25. 26.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

  26. 27.
    Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  27. 28.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl

  28. 29.
    The Little Prince
    by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  29. 30.
    Great Expectations
    by Charles Dickens

  30. 31.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

  31. 32.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  32. 33.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  33. 35.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  34. 36.
    Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

  35. 37.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  36. 38.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  37. 39.
    The Pillars of the Earth
    by Ken Follett

  38. 40.
    Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  39. 41.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

  40. 42.
    A Room With a View
    by Edward Morgan Forster

  41. 43.
    Where Angels Fear to Tread
    by E.M. Forster

  42. 44.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

  43. 45.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

  44. 46.
    American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel
    by Neil Gaiman

  45. 48.
    Grendel
    by John Gardner

  46. 49.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Modern Classics S.)
    by Stella Gibbons

  47. 50.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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This is Shannon's list. Only Shannon can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by Shannon on Jan 12, 2012.
 

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