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caels's "Erik Smietana's 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time"

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The is a collection of my favorite novels, not simply books, and as such excludes such masterpieces as Milton’s Pardise Lost and works of genius such as Newton’s Principia. By the way, I must recommend you read these works in their original language, they are far superior than their respective translations.

  1. 1.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  2. 2.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  3. 3.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  4. 4.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  5. 5.
    In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
    by Marcel Proust

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  6. 6.
    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  7. 7.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  8. 8.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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  9. 9.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  10. 10.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  11. 11.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  12. 12.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  13. 13.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  14. 14.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner

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  15. 15.
    Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  16. 16.
    The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Murasaki Shikibu

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  17. 17.
    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James

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  18. 18.
    To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  19. 19.
    Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  20. 20.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  21. 21.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  22. 22.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  23. 23.
    Man Without Qualities, The
    by ROBERT MUSIL

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  24. 24.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  25. 25.
    On the Road: The Original Scroll
    by Jack Kerouac

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  26. 26.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  27. 27.
    The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)
    by William Faulkner

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  28. 28.
    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce

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  29. 29.
    Dead Souls (Dover Thrift ed)
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  30. 30.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  31. 32.
    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence

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  32. 33.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

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  33. 35.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  34. 36.
    Le père Goriot
    by Honoré de Balzac

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  36. 38.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  37. 39.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

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  38. 40.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  39. 41.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Bronte

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  40. 42.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck

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  41. 43.
    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
    by Samuel Beckett

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  42. 44.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  43. 45.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  44. 46.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  45. 47.
    Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  46. 49.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  47. 50.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  48. 51.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

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  49. 53.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Enriched Classics)
    by Stephen Crane

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  50. 56.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  51. 57.
    My Antonia (Enriched Classics)
    by Willa Cather

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  52. 58.
    Petersburg (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Andrei Bely

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  53. 59.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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  54. 61.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  55. 62.
    A Passage To India
    by E. M. Forster

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  56. 63.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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  57. 64.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  58. 65.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  59. 66.
    The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Kate Chopin

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  60. 67.
    The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
    by Ford Madox Ford

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  61. 68.
    Germinal
    by Emile Zola

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  62. 70.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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  63. 71.
    Cities of Salt
    by Abdelrahman Munif

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  64. 73.
    Candide (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Voltaire

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  65. 74.
    Signature Classics - Pickwick Papers (Signature Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  66. 75.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

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  67. 76.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  68. 77.
    The Counterfeiters: A Novel
    by Andre Gide

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  69. 78.
    Love in the Time of Cholera (MTI) (Vintage International)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  70. 79.
    The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel
    by Carlos Fuentes

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  72. 81.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  73. 82.
    The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  74. 83.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  75. 84.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  76. 85.
    Oblomov
    by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

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  77. 86.
    Snow Country
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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  78. 87.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  79. 88.
    The Betrothed
    by Alessandro Manzoni

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  80. 89.
    1984: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  81. 90.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Thrift Edition)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  82. 91.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  83. 92.
    The Leopard
    by GUISEPPE DI LAMPEDUSA

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  84. 93.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  85. 95.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  86. 96.
    Daniel Deronda
    by George Eliot

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  87. 97.
    Dracula (Enriched Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

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  88. 98.
    The Good Apprentice
    by Iris Murdoch

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  89. 99.
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics)
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  90. 100.
    The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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