Lists of Bests: The Observer's "100 greatest novels of all time" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6789 Published 12 October 2003 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:46:49 GMT en-us 0 50 87 50 0 Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9349 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9349"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037575699X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel De Cervantes</div> The Pilgrim's Progress (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13963 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13963"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div> Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249323 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249323"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812966074.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525 <div id="position">7</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> Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4323 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4323"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192838679.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos</div> Emma (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4214 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4214"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192802372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin English Library El 45) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3154 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3154"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140430458.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Love Peacock</div> The Black Sheep (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175365 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175365"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442375.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honoré de Balzac</div> The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19141 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19141"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783180.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stendhal</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> Sybil, or the Two Nations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274090 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274090"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809594447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Disraeli</div> David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19152 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19152"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783415.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77177 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77177"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679405437.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437204.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528 <div id="position">19</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> The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19150 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252 <div id="position">22</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 Woman in White (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/668629 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/668629"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilkie Collins</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961532 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961532"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1402725027.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> Little Women (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65408 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65408"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140390693.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532575_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louisa May Alcott</div> The Way We Live Now (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1197530 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1197530"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437131.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Trollope</div> Anna Karenina (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/457435 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/457435"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Daniel Deronda (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9407 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9407"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037576013X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057190304_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> The Brothers Karamazov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646 <div id="position">29</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> 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> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3702 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3702"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422298_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Three Men in a Boat (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3385 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3385"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140621334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerome K. Jerome</div> The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968534 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968534"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416500278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/494084 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/494084"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140437320.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Grossmith</div> Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3201 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3201"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140435387.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/814306 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/814306"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812966147.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erskine Childers</div> Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925 <div id="position">39</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> The Wind in the Willows (Unabridged Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122813 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122813"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1402725051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Grahame</div> In Search of Lost Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/621636 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/621636"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141180366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> The Good Soldier (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424694 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424694"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393966348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Madox Ford</div> The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3530 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3530"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Buchan</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">45</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> Mrs. Dalloway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151009988.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19350 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19350"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830426.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114068357_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24692 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24692"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805210407.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122576327_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Men Without Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/246826 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/246826"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684825864.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811216543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis-Ferdinand Celine</div> As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918 <div id="position">52</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375504524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">53</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Scoop http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7164 <div id="position">54</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7164"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134658746_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Big Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535723 <div id="position">56</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535723"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000023VWS.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> The Pursuit Of Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424732 <div id="position">57</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nancy Mitford</div> The Plague http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615 <div id="position">58</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44869057_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Nineteen Eighty-Four http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18453 <div id="position">59</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18453"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679417397.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1141070924_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div>