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The Novel 100

Daniel S. Burt has assembled and ranked the 125 greatest novels from all cultures and time periods. Burt encourages disagreement with the listing, it is one persons opinion, the important thing is to read the novels and decide for oneself. In my reading of the list I agree with many books on the list being significant reads, but disagree with many. Reading the list has certainly expanded my world as a reader and a person.
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
1
Miguel De Cervantes
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
2
Leo Tolstoy
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
3
James Joyce
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
4
Marcel Proust
5. the Brothers Karamavoz.
5. the Brothers Karamavoz.
5
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
6
Herman Melville
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
7
Gustave Flaubert
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
8
George Eliot
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
9
Thomas Mann
10. the Tale of Genji
10. the Tale of Genji
10
11. Emma
11. Emma
11
12. Bleak House
12. Bleak House
12
13. Anna Karenina
13. Anna Karenina
13
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14
Mark Twain
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
15
Henry Fielding
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
16
Charles Dickens
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
17
William Faulkner
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
18
Henry James
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
19
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
20
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
21
Virginia Woolf
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
22
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
23
William Faulkner
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
24
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
25
Nikolai Gogol
Le Pere Goriot
Le Pere Goriot
26
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady
27
Henry James
Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)
Women in Love
28
D.H. Lawrence
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
29
Stendhal
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy
30
Laurence Sterne
Finnegans
Finnegans
31
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
32
Thomas Hardy
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
33
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
34
Ralph Ellison
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
35
Robert Musil
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
36
James Joyce
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable (Samuel Beckett)
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable
37
Samuel Beckett
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum
38
Günter Grass
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
39
Emily Brontë
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
40
Jane Austen
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