Lists of Bests: caels's "Erik Smietana's 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61105 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. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:47:30 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> War and Peace (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9416 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9416"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> The Brothers Karamazov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374528373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</div> In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43707 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43707"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812969642.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/207830 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/207830"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43031961_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> The Magic Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19088 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19088"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679772871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mann</div> Middlemarch (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56405 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56405"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/185715133X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44184622_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3335 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3335"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449175.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127237 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857152239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44185336_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Emma (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Absalom, Absalom! http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2018948 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2018948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375508724.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Bleak House (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62898 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62898"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760059.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3701 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3701"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014243714X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Murasaki Shikibu</div> The Ambassadors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2905877 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2905877"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/018Ap%2BoeqiL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191416 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191416"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192805606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V35902211_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424529.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117767 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117767"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039946.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348763X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085453646_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Makepeace Thackeray</div> Man Without Qualities, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11090 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11090"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394510526.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by ROBERT MUSIL</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124497 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124497"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0739322079.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> On the Road: The Original Scroll http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784444 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784444"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ORlRQw1QL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1429260 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1429260"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1417656638.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11032 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11032"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393964817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Finnegans Wake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1387889 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Dead Souls (Dover Thrift ed) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179722 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179722"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486426823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962985 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962985"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679417370.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mann</div> Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079405 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079405"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424588.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D. H. Lawrence</div> The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3317 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3317"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43839268_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stendhal</div> The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439777.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Sterne</div> Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11027 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11027"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393959031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> Le père Goriot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1977826 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1977826"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0543894177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honoré de Balzac</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/485539 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/485539"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530152.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34858991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Tin Drum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2480234 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2480234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099483505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> East of Eden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1046538 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1046538"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375400702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Fathers and Sons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1664643 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1664643"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529693.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivan Turgenev</div> Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39298 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39298"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192802380.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/581471 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/581471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1931082316.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006093140X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805209999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div>