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Best Novels Ever Written

An uncomplete list of the greatest novels of world literature. I put a lot of Hungarian masterpieces in the list to widen the horizon of the people not from my country. The list is in random order. Enjoy!
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
1
Marcel Proust
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
2
Franz Kafka
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
3
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
4
George Orwell
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
5
James Joyce
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
6
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
7
William Faulkner
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
8
Virginia Woolf
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
9
Albert Camus
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
10
Thomas Mann
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
11
Vladimir Nabokov
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
12
J.D. Salinger
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
Sons and Lovers
13
D.H. Lawrence
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
14
Harmonia Caelestis (Péter Esterházy)
Harmonia Caelestis
15
Péter Esterházy
A Book of Memories (Péter Nádas)
A Book of Memories
16
Péter Nádas
Fatelessness (Imre Kertesz)
Fatelessness
17
Imre Kertesz
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
18
Aldous Huxley
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Grapes of Wrath
19
John Steinbeck
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
20
Toni Morrison
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
21
Robert Musil
Young Torless
Young Torless
22
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
23
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
24
Virginia Woolf
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
25
Franz Kafka
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
26
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
27
Chinua Achebe
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
28
Salman Rushdie
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
29
Ernest Hemingway
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
30
George Orwell
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
31
William Golding
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
32
Jack Kerouac
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
33
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
34
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
35
Milan Kundera
Master and the Margarita (Mickhai Bulgakovl)
Master and the Margarita
36
Mickhai Bulgakovl
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
37
Albert Camus
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
38
Joseph Conrad
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
39
Theodore Dreiser
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
40
Jean-Paul Sartre
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