100 BEST NOVELS!
I have a keen interest in reading classic fiction. Here is the list of 100 classics/best novels I want to read.Please suggest some more good books to me .
PS: The titles maked in Red Font are those novels I have already read.
Thanks
Rank | Title of Great Novel | Year | Author | Religious Affiliation of Author |
1 | Don Quixote | 1605, 1630 | Miguel de Cervantes | Catholic |
2 | War and Peace | 1869 | Leo Tolstoy | Russian Orthodox |
3 | Ulysses | 1922 | James Joyce | Catholic (lapsed) |
4 | In Search of Lost Time | 1913-27 | Marcel Proust | Jewish Catholic |
5 | The Brothers Karamazov | 1880 | Feodor Dostoevsky | Russian Orthodox |
6 | Moby-Dick | 1851 | Herman Melville | Transcendentalist |
7 | Madame Bovary | 1857 | Gustave Flaubert | Catholic |
8 | Middlemarch | 1871-72 | George Eliot | Anglican; agnostic |
9 | The | 1924 | Thomas Mann | Lutheran |
10 | The Tale of Genji | 11th Century | Murasaki Shikibu | Buddhist/Shinto culture |
11 | Emma | 1816 | Jane Austen | Anglican |
12 | Bleak House | 1852-53 | Charles Dickens | Anglican |
13 | Anna Karenina | 1877 | Leo Tolstoy | Russian Orthodox |
14 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 1884 | Mark Twain | Presbyterian |
15 | Tom Jones | 1749 | Henry Fielding | |
16 | Great Expectations | 1860-61 | Charles Dickens | Anglican |
17 | Absalom, Absalom! | 1936 | William Faulkner | Presbyterian |
18 | The Ambassadors | 1903 | Henry James | Anglican |
19 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 1967 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Catholic |
20 | The Great Gatsby | 1925 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Catholic |
21 | To The Lighthouse | 1927 | Virginia Woolf | Neo-pagan |
22 | Crime and Punishment | 1866 | Feodor Dostoevsky | Russian Orthodox |
23 | The Sound and the Fury | 1929 | William Faulkner | Presbyterian |
24 | Vanity Fair | 1847-48 | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
25 | Invisible Man | 1952 | Ralph Ellison | |
26 | Finnegan’s Wake | 1939 | James Joyce | Catholic (lapsed) |
27 | The Man Without Qualities | 1930-43 | Robert Musil | Catholic |
28 | Gravity's Rainbow | 1973 | Thomas Pynchon | Catholic; agnostic |
29 | The Portrait of a Lady | 1881 | Henry James | Anglican |
30 | Women in Love | 1920 | D. H. Lawrence | |
31 | The Red and the Black | 1830 | Stendhal | Catholic |
32 | Tristram Shandy | 1760-67 | Laurence Sterne | Anglican ( |
33 | Dead Souls | 1842 | Nikolai Gogol | Russian Orthodox |
34 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | 1891 | Thomas Hardy | |
35 | Buddenbrooks | 1901 | Thomas Mann | Lutheran |
36 | Le Pere Goriot | 1835 | Honore de Balzac | Catholic |
37 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 1916 | James Joyce | Catholic (lapsed) |
38 | | 1847 | Emily Bronte | Anglican |
39 | The Tin Drum | 1959 | Gunter Grass | Catholic |
40 | Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable | 1951-53 | Samuel Beckett | |
41 | Pride and Prejudice | 1813 | Jane Austen | Anglican |
42 | The Scarlet Letter | 1850 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Transcendentalist |
43 | Fathers and Sons | 1862 | Ivan Turgenev | Russian Orthodox; agnostic |
44 | Nostromo | 1904 | Joseph Conrad | Catholic; atheist |
45 | Beloved | 1987 | Toni Morrison | |
46 | An American Tragedy | 1925 | Theodore Dreiser | Catholic; Congregationalist; Chrisitan Science |
47 | Lolita | 1955 | Vladimir Nabokov | Russian Orthodox |
48 | The Golden Notebook | 1962 | Doris Lessing | |
49 | Clarissa | 1747-48 | Samuel Richardson | |
50 | Dream of the Red Chamber | 1791 | Cao Xueqin | |
51 | The Trial | 1925 | Franz Kafka | Jewish |
52 | Jane Eyre | 1847 | Charlotte Bronte | Anglican |
53 | The Red Badge of Courage | 1895 | Stephen Crane | Methodist |
54 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1939 | John Steinbeck | Episcopalian |
55 | | 1916/1922 | Andrey Bely | Russian Orthodox; Theosophy; Spiritualism |
56 | Things Fall Apart | 1958 | Chinue Achebe | |
57 | The Princess of | 1678 | Madame de Lafayette | |
58 | The Stranger | 1942 | Albert Camus | Catholic; Existentialism |
59 | My Antonia | 1918 | Willa Cather | Episcopalian |
60 | The Counterfeiters | 1926 | Andre Gide | |
61 | The Age of Innocence | 1920 | Edith Wharton | |
62 | The Good Soldier | 1915 | Ford Madox Ford | Catholic; agnostic |
63 | The Awakening | 1899 | Kate Chopin | Catholic |
64 | A Passage to | 1924 | E. M. Forster | |
65 | Herzog | 1964 | Saul Bellow | Orthodox Jew (lapsed); Anthroposophist |
66 | Germinal | 1855 | Emile Zola | Catholic |
67 | Call It Sleep | 1934 | Henry Roth | Jewish |
68 | | 1930-38 | John Dos Passos | Catholic |
69 | Hunger | 1890 | Knut Hamsun | |
70 | | 1929 | Alfred Doblin | Catholic |
71 | Cities of Salt | 1984-89 | 'Abd al-Rahman Munif | |
72 | The Death of Artemio Cruz | 1962 | Carlos Fuentes | Catholic |
73 | A Farewell to Arms | 1929 | Ernest Hemingway | Catholic |
74 | Brideshead Revisited | 1945 | Evelyn Waugh | Catholic |
75 | The Last Chronicle of Barset | 1866-67 | Anthony Trollope | Anglican |
76 | The Pickwick Papers | 1836-67 | Charles Dickens | Anglican |
77 | Robinson Crusoe | 1719 | Daniel Defoe | Protestant Dissenter (Presbyterian) |
78 | The Sorrows of Young Werther | 1774 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Deist |
79 | Candide | 1759 | Voltaire | raised in Jansenism; later Deist |
80 | Native Son | 1940 | Richard Wright | Seventh-day Adventist; Communist |
81 | Under the Volcano | 1947 | Malcolm Lowry | Methodist; Anglican; agnostic |
82 | Oblomov | 1859 | Ivan Goncharov | |
83 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | 1937 | Zora Neale Hurston | |
84 | | 1814 | Sir Walter Scott | Anglican |
85 | Snow Country | 1937, 1948 | Kawabata Yasunari | |
86 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 1949 | George Orwell | Anglican |
87 | The Betrothed | 1827, 1840 | Alessandro Manzoni | Catholic |
88 | The Last of the Mohicans | 1826 | James Fenimore Cooper | Episcopalian |
89 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Episcopalian; Congregationalist |
90 | Les Miserables | 1862 | Victor Hugo | Catholic |
91 | On the Road | 1957 | Jack Kerouac | Catholic; Buddhism |
92 | Frankenstein | 1818 | Mary Shelley | |
93 | The Leopard | 1958 | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Catholic |
94 | The Catcher in the | 1951 | J.D. Salinger | Jewish Catholic; Scientologist |
95 | The Woman in White | 1860 | Wilkie Collins | |
96 | The Good Soldier Svejk | 1921-23 | Jaroslav Hasek | Catholic |
97 | Dracula | 1897 | Bram Stoker | |
98 | The Three Musketeers | 1844 | Alexandre Dumas | agnostic; Catholic |
99 | The Hound of Baskervilles | 1902 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Catholic; Spiritualist |
100 | Gone with the Wind | 1936 | Margaret Mitchell | Catholic |
Why do you want to read these novels specifically?
ReplyDeletei think, this list contains finest and classics novels!!
ReplyDeletewould you like to read to War and Peace next or Anna Karenina?
ReplyDeleteby the way, I have read only no. 38 and 41.
ReplyDeleteAnd am eager to read 13, 19, 22, 29, 52, 64.
hey! how was the novel 'lolita'?
ReplyDelete@karine
ReplyDeletejust wonderful!