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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