My Top 100 Novels
I remember around the year 2000 everyone was making best 100
novel lists. It took me a bit longer to round out my reading
and catch up on a few more obscure classics, but I can
now say I have read 100 "great" novels. I would only call the
top 25 or so masterpieces - then again I am a bally tough critic!
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Tess of the d'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Kristen Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
- World Light - Halldór Laxness
- Waverly - Sir Walter Scott
- The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Life Before Her Eyes - Laura Kasischke
- Journey to the End of Night - Louis Ferdinand Céline
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die - Erich Maria Remarque
- Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
- Nana - Emile Zola
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- The Van - Roddy Doyle
- Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes
- The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- A Soldier of the Great War - Mark Helprin
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Middlemarch - George Elliot
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse - Vincente Blasco Ibńez
- I'll Never Be Young Again - Daphne du Maurier
- Death on the Installment Plan - Louis Ferdinand Céline
- Giants in the Earth - O.E. Rolvaag
- My Ántonia - Willa Cather
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Katherine Anne Porter
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fydor Dostoyevsky
- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
- Columba - Prosper Mérimée
- The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
- The Greenlanders - Jane Smiley
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
- House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- The Chouans - Honoré de Balzac
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Kim - Rudyard Kipling
- Pan - Knut Hamsun
- A Man of Property - John Gallsworthy
- Independent People - Halldór Laxness
- The Autobiography of Henry VIII - Margaret George
- The Storyteller - Mario Vargas Llosa
- Pamela - Samuel Richardson
- Catch-22 - Joesph Heller
- Three Men in a Boat - Jeromke K. Jerome
- Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoyevsky
- Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- In a Dark Wood Wandering - Hella Haase
- The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
- Early Candlelight - Maude Hart Lovelace
- Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreisser
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Couples - John Updike
- Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- The Mayor of Castebridge - Thomas Hardy
- Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner
- Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
- The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
- The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
- Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
- The Call of the Wild - Jack London
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Ring of the Löwenskölds - Selma Lagerlöf
- The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kozantzakis
- Pet Sematary - Stephen King
- The Snapper - Roddy Doyle
- The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salanger
- With Fire and Sword - Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
- A Passage to India - E. M. Forester
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- The Windup Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
- Heritage of the Kurts - Björnstjerne Björnson
- The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
- Madame Therese - Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexander Chatrain
- Jack's Boys - Michael Ramberg
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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