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The Best Novels of All Time in the English Language Part A

An epic challenge based on a list compiled by controversial polymath Piero Scaruffi. Go to "https://www.scaruffi.com/service/about.html" for a biography.
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This is the first of 2 parts.
01-42: Ranked in descending order.
* 01-02: 3+++
* 03-35: 2++
* 36-42: 1+
43-280: All these books are rated 1+, with works by the same author clustered together.
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The Golden Bowl (Henry James)
The Golden Bowl
1
Henry James
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
2
James Joyce
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
3
Emily Brontë
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor
4
Vladimir Nabokov
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
5
Thomas Pynchon
Light in August (William Faulkner)
Light in August
6
William Faulkner
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
7
Virginia Woolf
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
8
William Gaddis
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
Nostromo
9
Joseph Conrad
Giles Goat Boy (John Barth)
Giles Goat Boy
10
John Barth
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
11
Herman Melville
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
12
Salman Rushdie
Herzog (Saul Bellow)
Herzog
13
Saul Bellow
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
14
Jane Austen
Possession (A.S. Byatt)
Possession
15
A.S. Byatt
Palace of the Peacock
Palace of the Peacock
16
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
17
Ian McEwan
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Birds
18
Flann O'Brien
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
19
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
20
Malcolm Lowry
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove
21
Henry James
Voss (Patrick White)
Voss
22
Patrick White
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
23
George Eliot
Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld
24
Don Delillo
Howard's End (E. M. Forster)
Howard's End
25
E. M. Forster
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
26
James Joyce
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
27
William Faulkner
Quartet in Autumn (Barbara Pym)
Quartet in Autumn
28
Barbara Pym
Burger's Daughter (Nadine Gordimer)
Burger's Daughter
29
Nadine Gordimer
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
30
Henry James
Women and Men (Joseph McElroy)
Women and Men
31
Joseph McElroy
Suttree (Cormac McCarthy)
Suttree
32
Cormac McCarthy
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook
33
Doris Lessing
Illywhacker (Peter Carey)
Illywhacker
34
Peter Carey
V. (Thomas Pynchon)
V.
35
Thomas Pynchon
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
The Sheltering Sky
36
Paul Bowles
The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Sirens of Titan
37
Kurt Vonnegut
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
38
Thomas Hardy
The Known World (Edward P. Jones)
The Known World
39
Edward P. Jones
The Plains (Gerald Murnane)
The Plains
40
Gerald Murnane
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