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The Greatest Novels
Rank Title Author Published Rank Title Author Published
101 Howards End E.M. Forster 1910 151 A Room With a View E.M. Forster 1908
102 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 152 The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939
103 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 153 Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence 1928
104 Perfume Patrick Suskind 1985 154 Clarissa Samuel Richardson 1748
105 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 1940 155 The Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher 1987
106 The Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 156 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 1901
107 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 157 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985
108 Go Tell It On The Mountain James Baldwin 1953 158 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 1940
109 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1859 159 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915
110 Tropic Of Cancer Henry Miller 1934 160 Herzog Saul Bellow 1964
111 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 1964 161 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961
112 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 162 Appointment In Samarra John O'Hara 1934
113 The Tin Drum Gunter Grass 1959 163 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003
114 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres 1993 164 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966
115 The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett 1989 165 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2003
116 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963 166 The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer 1948
117 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 167 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 1021
118 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 168 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans 1995
119 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 169 The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal 1839
120 Light in August William Faulkner 1932 170 The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles 1949
121 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1915 171 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843
122 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 172 A Handful Of Dust Evelyn Waugh 1934
123 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 173 The Bridge Of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder 1927
124 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles 1969 174 Tender Is The Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934
125 Death Comes For The Archbishop Willa Cather 1927 175 The Heart Of The Matter Graham Greene 1948
126 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 176 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996
127 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 177 Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1942
128 U.S.A. John Dos Passos 1936 178 Deliverance James Dickey 1970
129 Le Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac 1835 179 The Magus John Fowles 1965
130 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1895 180 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 1975
131 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 181 Schindler's Ark Thomas Keneally 1982
132 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 1943 182 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 1842
133 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 1962 183 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1601
134 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 184 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966
135 Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1939 185 Money Martin Amis 1984
136 Three Novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable) Samuel Beckett 1953 186 The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank 1947
137 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 187 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977
138 Women In Love D.H. Lawrence 1920 188 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev 1862
139 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 1994 189 Journey to the End of Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine 1932
140 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 190 The Odyssey Homer 800BC
141 The Golden Bowl Henry James 1904 191 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969
142 The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence 1915 192 Wild Swans Jung Chan 1991
143 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 1997 193 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930
144 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1909 194 The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1845
145 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953 195 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1978
146 The World According To Garp John Irving 1978 196 American Pastoral Philip Roth 1997
147 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 197 Life of Pi Yann Martel 2001
148 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 198 Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1874
149 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 199 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980
150 The Iliad Homer 800BC 200 The New York Trilogy Paul Auster 1986