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The Bibliophile's Great European Novels

This list is inspired by The Atlantic's recent list of their Great American Novels and my own list of Great American Novels in response to that (see the attached link). For this list, I'm not abiding by The Atlantic's strict rule that all books are published within the last 100 years (imagine the classics you'd have to leave out!) and thus having no time limit on their publication. I will make another list that does comply with that rule. So, I have 136 novels in chronological order, just like The Atlantic's list, but the one rule I imposed on myself, which The Atlantic didn't, is to allow an author only one entry on the list. I'm sure many will disagree with some of my choices, but that's the great thing about reading. Enjoy!
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Utopia (Sir Thomas More)
Utopia
1
Sir Thomas More
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
2
Miguel De Cervantes
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince
3
Niccolò Machiavelli
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
4
Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
5
Daniel Defoe
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
6
Voltaire
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
7
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
8
Jane Austen
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
9
Mary Shelley
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
10
Stendhal
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
11
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen)
Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales
12
Hans Christian Andersen
Lost Illusions (Honoré De Balzac)
Lost Illusions
13
Honoré De Balzac
A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
A Hero of Our Time
14
Mikhail Lermontov
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
15
Nikolai Gogol
Fear and Trembling (Sǿren Kierkegaard)
Fear and Trembling
16
Sǿren Kierkegaard
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
17
Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
18
Emily Brontë
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
19
Gustave Flaubert
Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)
Oblomov
20
Ivan Goncharov
Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
Max Havelaar
21
Multatuli
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
22
Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
23
Charles Dickens
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
24
Ivan Turgenev
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
25
Victor Hugo
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
26
Lewis Carroll
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
27
Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
28
Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
29
George Eliot
Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)
Around the World in 80 Days
30
Jules Verne
Bel-Ami (Guy De Maupassant)
Bel-Ami
31
Guy De Maupassant
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
32
Oscar Wilde
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
33
Bram Stoker
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds
34
H.G. Wells
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
35
Joseph Conrad
The Immoralist (André Gide)
The Immoralist
36
André Gide
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
37
Marcel Proust
Growth of the Soil (Knut Hamsun)
Growth of the Soil
38
Knut Hamsun
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
39
James Joyce
The Good Soldier Svejk (Jaroslav Hašek)
The Good Soldier Svejk
40
Jaroslav Hašek
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