Saturday, June 5, 2010

100 BEST NOVELS!


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 Magic Mountain
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 (Church of Ireland clergyman)
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
Wuthering Heights
1847
Emily Bronte
Anglican
39
The Tin Drum
1959
Gunter Grass
Catholic
40
Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable
1951-53
Samuel Beckett
Church of Ireland (Anglican)
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
Petersburg
1916/1922
Andrey Bely
Russian Orthodox; Theosophy; Spiritualism
56
Things Fall Apart
1958
Chinue Achebe

57
The Princess of Cleves
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 India
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
U.S.A. Trilogy
1930-38
John Dos Passos
Catholic
69
Hunger
1890
Knut Hamsun

70
Berlin Alexanderplatz
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
Waverley
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 Rye
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
Church of Ireland (Anglican)
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

6 comments:

  1. Why do you want to read these novels specifically?

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  2. i think, this list contains finest and classics novels!!

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  3. would you like to read to War and Peace next or Anna Karenina?

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  4. by the way, I have read only no. 38 and 41.
    And am eager to read 13, 19, 22, 29, 52, 64.

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