Tuesday 20 December 2016

The Novel 100

1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
2 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
3 Ulysses James Joyce
4 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
5 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6 Moby-Dick or, The Whale Herman Melville
7 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
8 Middlemarch George Eliot
9 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
10 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
11 Emma Jane Austen
12 Bleak House Charles Dickens
13 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
14 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
15 Tom Jones Henry Fielding
16 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
17 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
18 The Ambassadors Henry James
19 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
20 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
21 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
22 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
24 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
25 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
26 Le Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac
27 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
28 Women in Love DH Lawrence
29 The Red and the Black Stendhal
30 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne
31 Finnegans Wake James Joyce
32 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
33 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann
34 The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
35 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil
36 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
37 Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy Samuel Beckett
38 The Tin Drum Günter Grass
39 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
40 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
41 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
42 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
43 Beloved Toni Morrison
44 Nostromo Joseph Conrad
45 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
46 The Trial Franz Kafka
47 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
48 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
49 The Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin
50 Clarissa Samuel Richardson
51 Persuasion Jane Austen
52 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
53 David Copperfield Charles Dickens
54 Petersburg Andrei Bely
60 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
55 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
56 The Princess of Cleves Madame de Lafayette
57 The Stranger Albert Camus
58 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
59 The Counterfeiters Andre Gide
61 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
62 Sons and Lovers DH Lawrence
63 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
64 A Passage to India EM Forster
65 Daniel Deronda George Eliot
66 Germinal Emile Zola
67 My Antonia Willa Cather
68 An American Tragedy Theodor Dreiser
69 Hunger Knut Hamsun
70 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin
71 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
72 USA Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel [1930], 1919 [1932], and The Big Money John Dos Passos
73 Les Liaisons Dangereuses Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
74 The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
75 The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
76 Cities of Salt Abdelrahman Munif
77 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
78 The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes
79 Herzog Saul Bellow
80 Candide Voltaire
81 The Sleepwalkers Hermann Broch
82 The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope
83 The Awakening Kate Chopin
84 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
85 Call it Sleep Henry Roth
86 Waverley Sir Walter Scott
87 Oblomov Ivan Goncharov
88 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
89 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
90 Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata
91 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
92 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
93 The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
94 The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni
95 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
96 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
97 Les Misérables Victor Hugo
98 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
99 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
100 Native Son Richard Wright
101 On The Road Jack Kerouac
102 Frankenstein Mary Shelley
103 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
104 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
105 Dom Casmurro Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
106 A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
107 The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
108 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
109 The Good Soldier Svejk Jaroslav Hasek
110 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
111 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
112 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
113 American Pastoral Philip Roth
114 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
115 Manon Lescaut Abbe Prevost
116 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
117 Some Prefer Nettles Junichiro Tanizaki
118 A Bend in the River VS Naipaul
119 Cold Nights Ba Jin
120 Dracula Bram Stoker
121 The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe
122 Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
123 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
124 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
125 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson

2010 revised ed

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