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The Book Land's 30 Chosen Novels

This list contains only novels. Apart from the first 5, I'm not too sure about it, but it definitely includes great favourites. Considering Don Quixote the first novel of the West (my standards being of course western ones), that one is, chronologically speaking, the first book eligible for this list.
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The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
1
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
2
J.R.R.Tolkien
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
3
James Joyce
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment
4
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
5
Thomas Mann
East of Eden (Steinbeck, John)
East of Eden
6
Steinbeck, John
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
7
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
8
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
Doctor Faustus
9
Thomas Mann
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland
10
Lewis Carroll
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
11
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12
Mark Twain
The House of the Dead (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The House of the Dead
13
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
14
James Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
15
John Steinbeck
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
16
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
17
Leo Tolstoy
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) (C.S. Lewis)
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
18
C.S. Lewis
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
19
Franz Kafka
Humiliated and Insulted (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Humiliated and Insulted
20
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gambler (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Gambler
21
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
22
Virginia Woolf
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
23
Oscar Wilde
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
24
Boris Pasternak
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
25
Vladimir Nabokov
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
26
Albert Camus
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
27
Ernest Hemingway
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks
28
Thomas Mann
Silence (Shūsaku Endō)
Silence
29
Shūsaku Endō
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
30
Daniel Defoe
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