Great Books Guide - 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

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by Ted Gioia

‘’We all love lists . . . well let’s stir the waters with an ambitious one highlighting the 100 best novels. Be warned: this ranking is based on cranky and subjective standards. (But aren’t they all?)’’

Also includes some "runner-up" books.

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  1. 1.
    In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
    by Marcel Proust

  2. 2.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  3. 3.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  4. 4.
    The Ambassadors
    by James Henry

  5. 5.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  6. 6.
    Moby-Dick
    by Herman Melville

  7. 7.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  8. 8.
    War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  9. 9.
    Tom Jones
    by Henry Fielding

  10. 10.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

  11. 11.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  12. 12.
    The Wings of the Dove (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James

  13. 13.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  14. 14.
    Great Expectations
    by Charles Dickens

  15. 15.
    Les Miserables (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  16. 16.
    Pride and Prejudice (Arcturus Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  17. 17.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  18. 18.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  19. 19.
    The Sleepwalkers
    by Hermann Broch

  20. 20.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

  21. 21.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

  22. 22.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  23. 23.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  24. 24.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  25. 25.

  26. 26.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  27. 27.
    The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

  28. 28.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  29. 29.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

  30. 30.
    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy

  31. 31.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

  32. 32.
    To The Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

  33. 33.
    Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (Oxford World's Classics)
    by W. M. Thackeray

  34. 34.
    Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

  35. 35.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  36. 36.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  37. 37.
    Bleak House
    by Charles Dickens

  38. 38.
    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan

  39. 39.
    Silas Marner: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  40. 40.
    The Gambler (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  41. 41.
    Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

  42. 42.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

  43. 43.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  44. 44.
    ?
    Emma (Everyman Paperbacks)
    by Jane Austen

  45. 45.
    Jane Eyre
    by Charlotte Bronte

  46. 46.
    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    by Emily Bronte

  47. 47.
    Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
    by Joseph Conrad

  48. 48.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

  49. 49.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  50. 50.
    ?
    The American (The Laurel Henry James)
    by Henry James

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