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The Top 100 Greatest Novels Ever Written

The list below is from the book The Novel 100: A Ranking of Greatest Novels All Time (Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2004), written by Daniel S. Burt.
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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 (7 Books) (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (7 Books)
4
Marcel Proust
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
5
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
6
Herman Melville
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
7
Gustave Flaubert
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Middlemarch – George Eliot
8
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
9
Thomas Mann
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji
10
Murasaki Shikibu
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
11
Jane Austen
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
12
Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
13
Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14
Mark Twain
The History of Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
The History of 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 (Mrs. Ramsay)
To the Lighthouse
21
Mrs. Ramsay
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment
22
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
23
William Faulkner
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
24
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
25
Ralph Ellison
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
26
Robert Musil
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
27
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
28
Thomas Pynchon
Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
Portrait of a Lady
29
Henry James
Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)
Women in Love
30
D.H. Lawrence
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
31
Stendhal
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
32
Laurence Sterne
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
33
Nikolai Gogol
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
34
Thomas Hardy
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks
35
Thomas Mann
Old Goriot
Old Goriot
36
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
37
James Joyce
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
38
Emily Brontë
The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
The Tin Drum
39
Gunter Grass
Malloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable: A Trilogy- Samuel Beckett
Malloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable: A Trilogy- Samuel Beckett
40
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