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Daniel S. Burt's "The Novel 100"

A ranking of the greatest novels of all time from "the book":http://www.allconsuming.net/item/asin/0816045585 by Daniel S. Burt, a writer and college literature professor.

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1. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
2. War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
  
3. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
4. In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
  
5. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
6. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
  
7. Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
  
8. Middlemarch: Part 1 & Part 2
by George Eliot
  
9. The Magic Mountain (Everyman's Library)
by Thomas Mann
  
10. The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu
  
11. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
12. Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
  
13. Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
  
14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
  
15. Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
16. Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
  
17. Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
  
18. The Ambassadors
by Henry James
  
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
20. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
21. To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
by Virginia Woolf
  
22. Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
23. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
24. Vanity Fair: A Noel Without a Hero
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
25. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
26. Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
27.
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 The Man Without Qualities (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
by Robert Musil
  
28. Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
  
29. The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
  
30. Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
by D. H. Lawrence
  
31. The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
by Stendhal
  
32. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics)
by Laurence Sterne
  
33. Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
  
34.
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 Tess of the D'Ubervilles  
35. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Thomas Mann
  
36. Le père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
  
37. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by James Joyce
  
38. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
  
39. The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
  
40. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
by Samuel Beckett
  
41. Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
  
42. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
43. Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
  
44. Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
  
45. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
46. Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
by Theodore Dreiser
  
47. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
48. The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)
by Doris Lessing
  
49. Clarissa, Or The History of a Young Lady: (Abridged Edition) (Signet Classics)
by Samuel Richardson
  
50. The Dreamer Wakes (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 5)
by Cao Xuequin
  
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