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 |









