Daniel S. Burt's Novel 100

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The 100 novels ranked by Daniel S. Burt in his The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (2004). In the revised edition (2010), Burt revised the original list and expanded it to 125

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Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1
War and Peace (1868) by Leo Tolstoy
2
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
3
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
4
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
6
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
7
Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
8
The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
9
The Tale of Genji (2015) by Shikibu Murasaki
10
Emma (1815) by Jane Austen
11
Bleak House (1852) by Charles Dickens
12
Anna Karenina (1875) by Leo Tolstoy
13
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
14
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
15
Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens
16
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner
17
The Ambassadors (1903) by Henry James
18
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20
To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
21
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
23
Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray
24
Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
25
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce
26
The Man Without Qualities (1930) by Robert Musil
27
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
28
The Portrait of a Lady (1908) by Henry James
29
Women in Love (1920) by D. H. Lawrence
30
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal
31
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
32
Dead Souls (1884) by Nikolai Gogol
33
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
34
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1924) by Thomas Mann
35
Old Goriot (1835) by Honoré de Balzac
36
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
37
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
38
The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
39
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (1951) by Samuel Beckett
40
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
41
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
42
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
43
Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
44
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
45
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
46
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
47
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
48
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747) by Samuel Richardson
49
Dream of the Red Chamber (1791) by Cao Xueqin
50
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
51
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
52
The Red Badge of Courage (1894) by Stephen Crane
53
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
54
Petersburg (1922) by Andrei Bely
55
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
56
The Princesse de Clèves (1678) by Madame de La Fayette
57
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
58
My Ántonia (1918) by Willa Cather
59
The Counterfeiters (1925) by André Gide
60
The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton
61
The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
62
The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
63
A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
64
Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
65
Germinal (1885) by Émile Zola
66
Call It Sleep (1934) by Henry Roth
67
U.S.A. (1938) by John Dos Passos
68
Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun
69
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Döblin
70
Cities of Salt (1987) by Abdelrahman Munif
71
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) by Carlos Fuentes
72
A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
73
Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
74
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) by Anthony Trollope
75
The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens
76
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
77
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
78
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
79
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
80
Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
81
Oblomov (1859) by Iwan Gontscharow
82
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
83
Waverley (1814) by Sir Walter Scott
84
Snow Country (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata
85
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
86
The Betrothed (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni
87
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper
88
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1964) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
89
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
90
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
91
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
92
The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
93
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
94
The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins
95
The Good Soldier Svejk (1922) by Jaroslav Hašek
96
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
97
The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père
98
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
99
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
100

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