1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes Show 2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos 9. Emma Jane Austen 10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley 11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 12. The Black Sheep Honoré De Balzac 13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal 14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli 16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens 17. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville 24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll 25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott 26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot 29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 32. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers 38. The Call of the Wild Jack London 39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad 40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence 43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 45. Ulysses James Joyce 46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 47. A Passage to India EM Forster 48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. The Trial Franz Kafka 50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway 51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley 54.
Scoop Evelyn Waugh 55. USA John Dos Passos 56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford 58. The Plague Albert Camus 59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett 61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor 63. Charlotte's
Web EB White 64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 65. Lucky Jim Kingsley
Amis 66. Lord
of the Flies William Golding 67. The Quiet American Graham Greene 68 On the Road Jack Kerouac 69.
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 70.
The Tin Drum Günter Grass 71.
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 72. The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee 74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller 75. Herzog Saul Bellow 76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor 78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré 79. Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison 80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge 81.
The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer 82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino 83. A Bend in the River VS Naipaul 84. Waiting for the Barbarians JM Coetzee 85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 86. Lanark Alasdair Gray 87. The New York
Trilogy Paul Auster 88. The BFG Roald Dahl 89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi 90. Money Martin Amis 91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro 92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera 94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie 95. LA Confidential James Ellroy 96. Wise Children Angela Carter 97. Atonement
Ian McEwan
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman 99.
American Pastoral Philip Roth 100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald Who did we miss? So, are you congratulating yourself on having read everything on our list or screwing the newspaper up into a ball and aiming it at the nearest bin? Are you wondering what happened to all those American writers from Bret Easton Ellis to Jeffrey Eugenides, from Jonathan Franzen to Cormac McCarthy? Have women been short-changed? Should we have included Pat Barker, Elizabeth Bowen, A.S. Byatt, Penelope Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing and Iris Murdoch? What's happened to novels in translation such as Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Hesse's Siddhartha, Mishima's The Sea of Fertility, Süskind's Perfume and Zola's Germinal? Writers such as JG Ballard, Julian Barnes, Anthony Burgess, Bruce Chatwin, Robertson Davies, John Fowles, Nick Hornby, Russell Hoban, Somerset Maugham and VS Pritchett narrowly missed the final hundred. Were we wrong to lose them? Let us know what you think. Post your own suggestions for the 100 best books on the Observer blog. What is considered the greatest novel of all time?Moby Dick by Herman Melville. First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature."
Which of the following was included in TIME 100 Best English novels from 1923 2005?Time Magazine's Top 100 All-Time Novels (1923-2005). The Adventures of Augie March. by Saul Bellow. ... . All the King's Men. by Robert Penn Warren. ... . American Pastoral. by Philip Roth. ... . An American Tragedy. by Theodore Dreiser. ... . Animal Farm. by George Orwell. ... . Appointment in Samarra. by John O'Hara. ... . Are You There God? ... . The Assistant.. What is the only graphic novel on the Time magazine list of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century?Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen was the only graphic novel to make Time Magazine's Online Edition's list of the '100 Best Novels. ' Time critics Richard Lacayo and Lev Grossman picked what they believe are the 100 best novels written in English since Time Magazine began publishing back in 1923.
What is the best reviewed book of all time?Pride and Prejudice. With more than 3 million ratings and an average score of 4.26, Jane Austen's enduring 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice remains one of Goodreads' highest-rated novels.
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