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The 150 Greatest Novels of All Time

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41,155 members

682 reviews

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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,770 members

489 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit, donhoagie

3

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,763 members

531 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit, donhoagie

4

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,713 members

1,301 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit, donhoagie,

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43,950 members

567 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

6

by Toni Morrison

26,465 members

447 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, DAGray08, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit,

7

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,187 members

776 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

8

Pride and Prejudice

93,750 members

1,510 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

9

by George Eliot

20,708 members

367 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

10

by William Shakespeare

37,247 members

335 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

11

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13,964 members

98 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

12

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,288 members

585 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

13

by Virginia Woolf

23,209 members

376 reviews

3.8

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

14

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,438 members

533 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

15

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,521 members

374 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

16

by William Shakespeare

30,156 members

264 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

17

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,035 members

1,448 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

18

by Herman Melville

41,639 members

618 reviews

3.8

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by Charlotte Brontë

10,066 members

157 reviews

3.9

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20

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

5,335 members

121 reviews

3.8

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21

33,150 members

576 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

22

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

56,882 members

496 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

23

by William Shakespeare

17,280 members

170 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Juliodogpit

24

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

13,501 members

82 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

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by Daphne Du Maurier

23,927 members

685 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit,

26

by Charlotte Brontë

67,806 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

27

by Charles Dickens

15,323 members

273 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

28

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,012 members

517 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

29

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,019 members

1,196 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

30

Complete Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

7,717 members

74 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

31

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,750 members

514 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

32

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,244 members

384 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Juliodogpit,

33

by Albert Camus

40,689 members

578 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

34

by José Saramago

14,594 members

432 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

35

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

8,986 members

103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

36

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,493 members

251 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

37

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,354 members

312 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

38

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,363 members

201 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

39

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,558 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

40

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,307 members

1,233 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

41

Sense and Sensibility

43,966 members

574 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

42

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,887 members

809 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

43

25,590 members

402 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

44

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,926 members

478 reviews

3.9

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45

The Metamorphosis [novella]

15,175 members

276 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

46

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,289 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

47

The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,850 members

12 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

48

by Cormac McCarthy

14,045 members

326 reviews

4.2

2 Members: DAGray08, Juliodogpit

49

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

20,954 members

191 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

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22,079 members

264 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

51

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,082 members

286 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

52

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,687 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

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53

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

28,947 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

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by William Shakespeare

19,617 members

151 reviews

4

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55

The Portrait of a Lady

12,121 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

56

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,361 members

867 reviews

3.9

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57

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,925 members

167 reviews

3.8

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58

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,739 members

131 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

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by Yevgeny Zamyatin

9,949 members

244 reviews

3.8

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60

23,074 members

345 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

61

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,527 members

574 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

62

by Anton Chekhov

1,757 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

63

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,616 members

779 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

64

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

2,013 members

52 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

65

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,186 members

633 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

66

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,366 members

393 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Juliodogpit

67

Memoirs of Hadrian ; and, Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

2,986 members

68 reviews

4.1

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68

27,412 members

376 reviews

4

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69

22,849 members

267 reviews

4

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70

by Ralph Ellison

18,375 members

230 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

71

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

8,089 members

133 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

72

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,039 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

73

by Joseph Heller

44,270 members

578 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

74

by Gustave Flaubert

29,735 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

75

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,448 members

247 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

76

A Season in Hell

by Arthur Rimbaud

966 members

11 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

77

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway

805 members

7 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

78

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,083 members

325 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

79

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,354 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: Juliodogpit

80

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

3,682 members

47 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

81

Independent People

by Halldór Laxness

3,411 members

120 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

82

The Complete Short Stories

by W. Somerset Maugham

671 members

8 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

83

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

7,623 members

170 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

84

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

7,328 members

106 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

85

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

15,497 members

269 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

86

33,457 members

510 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Juliodogpit

87

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,583 members

264 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

88

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,950 members

334 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

89

Light in August

by William Faulkner

10,362 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

90

by Louisa May Alcott

33,102 members

472 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

91

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,504 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

92

43,942 members

696 reviews

4.1

Member: Juliodogpit

93

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,588 members

415 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

94

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad

5,314 members

70 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

95

Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,592 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

96

by Jorge Luis Borges

8,845 members

134 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Juliodogpit

97

The Magic Mountain

11,176 members

195 reviews

4.2

Member: Juliodogpit

98

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,749 members

493 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Juliodogpit

99

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

8,604 members

115 reviews

4.1

Member: Juliodogpit

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Les Misérables

30,519 members

379 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Juliodogpit

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