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The One Hundred Greatest Novels of All Time

#1-#100: "We all love lists . . . well let's stir the waters with an ambitious one highlighting the 100 best novels. Be warned: this ranking is based on cranky and subjective standards. (But aren't they all?)" (Ted Gioia, The Greatest Books Guide).
"And lurking under the top 100": #101-#104
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
1
Marcel Proust
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
2
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
3
Thomas Mann
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
4
Henry James
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quixote
5
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
6
Herman Melville
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
7
William Faulkner
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
8
Leo Tolstoy
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
9
Henry Fielding
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
10
Mark Twain
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
11
Gabriel García Márquez
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove
12
Henry James
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
13
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
14
Charles Dickens
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables
15
Victor Hugo
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
16
Jane Austen
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
17
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
18
Ernest Hemingway
The Sleepwalkers
The Sleepwalkers
19
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
20
Franz Kafka
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
21
James Joyce
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
22
Gustave Flaubert
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
23
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
24
William Faulkner
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
25
George Eliot
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
26
Ralph Ellison
The Golden Bowl (Henry James)
The Golden Bowl
27
Henry James
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
28
Stendhal
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady
29
Henry James
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
30
Leo Tolstoy
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
31
Joseph Conrad
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
32
Virginia Woolf
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
33
William Makepeace Thackeray
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
34
Ivan Turgenev
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
35
Vladimir Nabokov
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
36
Saul Bellow
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
37
Charles Dickens
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
38
Ian McEwan
Silas Marner (George Eliot)
Silas Marner
39
George Eliot
The Gambler (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Gambler
40
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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