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The English Teacher's Novel 100: A Personal List of Some of the Greatest Novels Written

This is not a list of the Greatest ever written in that it does not presuppose that everything else is of lesser quality or importance. As the title suggests, these 100 novels are SOME of the greatest ever written ( in my humble opinion at any rate). Since I set the limit at 100, there were many novels I had to leave off. I tried to find a balance of novels that were of some historical and/or cultural importance, of diversity of authors in terms of race, gender, and nationality, and of genre and "literary" fiction. I don't necessarily like all of them: but all of them are worth the time and effort to read. I tried to limit the list to 1 book per author, but ultimately had to put 2 by Tolstoy on it; I avoided the same problem with Conrad by deciding that "Heart of Darkness" was a novella, not a novel.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1
Mark Twain
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
2
Remarque
And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokhov)
And Quiet Flows the Don
3
Mikhail Sholokhov
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
4
Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
5
William Faulkner
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
6
Ian McEwan
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers
7
Anthony Trollope
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8
A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
A Bend in the River
9
V.S. Naipaul
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
10
Alfred Döblin
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
11
Heinrich Böll
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
12
Charles Dickens
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
13
Thornton Wilder
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
14
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
Call It Sleep
15
Henry Roth
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
16
Jack London
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
A Canticle for Leibowitz
17
Miller
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
18
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
19
J.D. Salinger
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
The Charterhouse of Parma
20
Stendhal
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
21
John Kennedy Toole
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
22
Alexandre Dumas
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
23
Nikolai Gogol
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
24
Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
25
Miguel De Cervantes
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
26
Bram Stoker
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune
27
Frank Herbert
Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane)
Effi Briest
28
Theodor Fontane
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
29
Ivan Turgenev
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga
30
John Galsworthy
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
31
Mary Shelley
Germinal – Emile Zola
Germinal – Emile Zola
32
The Glass Key (Dashiell Hammett)
The Glass Key
33
Dashiell Hammett
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
34
Margaret Mitchell
The Good Soldier Svejk (Jaroslav Hašek)
The Good Soldier Svejk
35
Jaroslav Hašek
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
36
John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
37
Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
38
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
39
Margaret Atwood
The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
The Heart of the Matter
40
Greene
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