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Lamont's Hundred Best Novels (1947)

Description: Published by William H. F. Lamont in Books Abroad, and designed to include 75% foreign fiction, 35% small-country fiction, and 35% contemporary fiction.

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1

by Charlotte Brontë

59,360 members

924 reviews

4.2

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,246 members

520 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,781 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Pride and Prejudice

81,156 members

1,371 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,304 members

708 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,703 members

439 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

7

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,144 members

282 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB

8

by George Eliot

4,236 members

70 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Henry Fielding

8,166 members

95 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,762 members

192 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

20,649 members

309 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,660 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Herman Melville

35,629 members

545 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,528 members

42 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Portrait of a Lady

10,794 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,438 members

495 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

17

19,981 members

237 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,670 members

331 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Bretzky1

19

by León Tolstói

29,025 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

20

by Gustave Flaubert

26,347 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB,Bretzky1

21

Les Misérables

26,417 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

22

by Joseph Conrad

9,083 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

23

by León Tolstói

38,666 members

632 reviews

4.1

Member: NinieB

24

The Red and the Black

9,550 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

25

by Sinclair Lewis

5,092 members

96 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

26

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,852 members

130 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

27

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,557 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

28

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,490 members

146 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

29

Les hommes de bonne volonté - Tome XVI - Verdun

by Jules Romains

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Old Wives' Tale

by Arnold Bennett

1,560 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

31

Ships in the sky

by Gunnar Gunnarsson

3 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Maksim Gorky

5 members

3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

Eros Invincible

by Ricarda Huch

10 members

5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

El hermano asno

by Eduardo Barrios

11 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Stefan Żeromski

15 members

5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Fool In Christ: Emmanuel Quint

by Gerhart Hauptmann

28 members

1 review

5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

The World's Illusion

by Jakob Wassermann

30 members

1 review

½ 2.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

by José María de Pereda

66 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Long Journey

by Johannes V. Jensen

54 members

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

Road to Calvary: A Trilogy

by Alexei Tolstoy

74 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Cathedral Folk

by Nikolai Leskov

76 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Romantic Comedians

by Ellen Glasgow

65 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

by Grazia Deledda

90 members

1 review

3.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Charles Men

by Verner von Heidenstam

81 members

1 review

½ 2.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

140 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Last of the Vikings

133 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

The Triumph of Death

by Gabriele D'Annunzio

139 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

by Hjalmar Bergman

154 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

by F. E. Sillanpää

123 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

253 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Song of the World

223 members

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

by José Eustasio Rivera

297 members

9 reviews

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

by Henry Handel Richardson

240 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Deeps of Deliverance

by Frederik van Eeden

266 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Little World of the Past

by Antonio Fogazzaro

288 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Don Flows Home to the Sea

by Mikhail Sholokhov

314 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

by Benito Pérez-Galdós

375 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

Green Henry [2nd version of 1879/1880]

by Gottfried Keller

321 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

Don Segundo Sombra

by Ricardo Güiraldes

425 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

by Selma Lagerlöf

367 members

12 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

by Rómulo Gallegos

472 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

Jennie Gerhardt

by Theodore Dreiser

424 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Anatole France

437 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

by Jens Peter Jacobsen

493 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

Rebellion in the Backlands

by Euclides da Cunha

611 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

Old People and The Things That Pass

by Louis Couperus

547 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Golovlyov Family

by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

611 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

by Franz Werfel

686 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

by Aleksis Kivi

661 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by George Meredith

831 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Sleepwalkers

by Hermann Broch

887 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

939 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

by James T. Farrell

982 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice

by James Branch Cabell

1,017 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

The Heart of Mid-Lothian

by Sir Walter Scott

1,085 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

The House by the Medlar Tree

by Giovanni Verga

1,207 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

by Mariano Azuela

1,391 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

The History of Henry Esmond

by William Makepeace Thackeray

1,374 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

The Rise of Silas Lapham

by William Dean Howells

1,432 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

And Quiet Flows the Don

by Mikhail Sholokhov

1,561 members

20 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

Growth of the Soil

1,824 members

46 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

by Abbé Prévost

2,039 members

51 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

by Honoré de Balzac

2,269 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

by Theodor Fontane

2,220 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

2,432 members

46 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

by André Malraux

2,535 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Alessandro Manzoni

3,151 members

51 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

Kristin Lavransdatter

by Sigrid Undset

3,038 members

75 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Ivan Goncharov

3,358 members

67 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

3,466 members

65 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

Look Homeward, Angel

by Thomas Wolfe

3,562 members

50 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

A Hero of Our Time

by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov

3,759 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,917 members

46 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

5,703 members

109 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

by Honoré de Balzac

5,993 members

109 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,514 members

87 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

7,955 members

92 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

by Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol

9,298 members

122 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

The Magic Mountain

9,657 members

176 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

24,214 members

379 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,Bretzky1

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