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100 Greatest Novels of All Time (The Guardian)

From 'Don Quixote' to 'American Pastoral,' take a look at the 100 greatest novels of all time.
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
1
Miguel De Cervantes
Pilgrim's Progress
Pilgrim's Progress
2
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
3
Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
4
Jonathan Swift
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
5
Henry Fielding
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy
6
Laurence Sterne
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
7
Jane Austen
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
8
Mary Shelley
Nightmare Abbey (Thomas Love Peacock)
Nightmare Abbey
9
Thomas Love Peacock
The Black Sheep
The Black Sheep
10
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
The Charterhouse of Parma
11
Stendhal
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
12
Alexandre Dumas
Sybil or the Two Nations
Sybil or the Two Nations
13
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
14
Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
15
Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
16
Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
17
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
18
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
19
Herman Melville
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Woman in White
20
Wilkie Collins
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
21
Lewis Carroll
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
22
Louisa May Alcott
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
The Way We Live Now
23
Anthony Trollope
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
24
Leo Tolstoy
Daniel Deronda (George Eliot)
Daniel Deronda
25
George Eliot
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
26
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady
27
Henry James
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
28
Mark Twain
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
29
Robert Louis Stevenson
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
Three Men in a Boat
30
Jerome K. Jerome
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
31
Oscar Wilde
Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith)
Diary of a Nobody
32
George and Weedon Grossmith
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure
33
Thomas Hardy
The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sands
34
Erskine Childers
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
35
Jack London
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows
36
Kenneth Grahame
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
37
Marcel Proust
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier
38
Ford Madox Ford
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps
39
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
40
James Joyce
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