So here's how I chose the novels for this list. I researched and read and agonized until I had a list of the best and most influential novels ever - the literary works that need no introduction. Ev...
So here's how I chose the novels for this list. I researched and read and agonized until I had a list of the best and most influential novels ever - the literary works that need no introduction. Every single novel on the list is excellent, and I made an effort to make the list as diverse as possible in terms of authors, times, countries, and genres represented.
- Abasalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner - Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton - American Pastoral by Philip Roth - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Beloved by Toni Morrison - Bleak House by Charles Dickens - Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol - Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes - Emma by Jane Austen - Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev - Finnegans Wake by James Joyce - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth by Jules Verne - Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil - Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - Middlemarch by George Eliot - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - Neuromancer by William Gibson - Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell - Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov - One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James - Tale Of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - Thousand And One Nights by Anonymous - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - Trial by Franz Kafka - Ulysses by James Joyce - Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
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Great list, I always want to know what to read next and I want to read the books that are really worth reading. Only I would put Lolita higher and add 2 books (pride and prejudice and The hobbit).
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