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The 150 Greatest Novels of All Time

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41,432 members

684 reviews

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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,929 members

489 reviews

3.8

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

3

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,903 members

532 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit, donhoagie

4

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,025 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

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

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44,190 members

570 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

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by Toni Morrison

26,603 members

447 reviews

3.9

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

7

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,236 members

777 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

8

Pride and Prejudice

94,196 members

1,511 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

9

by George Eliot

20,794 members

368 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

10

by William Shakespeare

37,390 members

336 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

11

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

14,014 members

98 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

12

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,465 members

585 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

13

by Virginia Woolf

23,302 members

376 reviews

3.8

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

14

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,598 members

534 reviews

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4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

15

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,573 members

374 reviews

4

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16

by William Shakespeare

29,945 members

261 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

17

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,371 members

1,450 reviews

4.2

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18

by Herman Melville

41,795 members

620 reviews

3.8

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by Charlotte Brontë

10,092 members

158 reviews

3.9

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20

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

5,321 members

121 reviews

3.8

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21

33,298 members

576 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

22

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

56,989 members

496 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

23

by William Shakespeare

17,171 members

168 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Juliodogpit

24

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

13,565 members

83 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

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by Daphne Du Maurier

23,974 members

687 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit,

26

by Charlotte Brontë

68,072 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

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27

by Charles Dickens

15,375 members

273 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

28

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,182 members

519 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

29

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,224 members

1,198 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

30

Complete Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

7,751 members

74 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

31

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,873 members

514 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

32

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,353 members

386 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Juliodogpit,

33

by Albert Camus

40,904 members

581 reviews

3.9

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34

by José Saramago

14,628 members

432 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

35

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,017 members

103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

36

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,552 members

252 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

37

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,333 members

312 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

38

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,319 members

201 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

39

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,586 members

125 reviews

3.9

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40

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,433 members

1,237 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

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Sense and Sensibility

44,159 members

578 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

42

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,208 members

813 reviews

3.9

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43

25,708 members

403 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

44

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,916 members

479 reviews

3.9

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45

The Metamorphosis [novella]

15,232 members

276 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

46

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,399 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

47

The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,859 members

12 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

48

by Cormac McCarthy

14,112 members

327 reviews

4.2

2 Members: DAGray08, Juliodogpit

49

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

21,070 members

191 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

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22,139 members

265 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

51

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,125 members

286 reviews

4

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52

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,850 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

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53

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

29,066 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

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by William Shakespeare

19,484 members

151 reviews

4

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55

The Portrait of a Lady

12,172 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

56

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,569 members

869 reviews

3.9

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57

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,891 members

167 reviews

3.8

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58

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,763 members

131 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

59

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

9,999 members

247 reviews

3.8

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60

23,152 members

344 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

61

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,785 members

576 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

62

by Anton Chekhov

1,762 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

63

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,330 members

783 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

64

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

2,021 members

52 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

65

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,319 members

636 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

66

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,519 members

395 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Juliodogpit

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

by Marguerite Yourcenar

3,003 members

68 reviews

4.1

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68

27,473 members

377 reviews

4

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69

22,887 members

269 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

70

by Ralph Ellison

18,432 members

231 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

71

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

8,113 members

133 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

72

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,064 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

73

by Joseph Heller

44,396 members

578 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

74

by Gustave Flaubert

29,854 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

75

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,543 members

247 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

76

A Season in Hell

by Arthur Rimbaud

969 members

11 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, Juliodogpit

77

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway

807 members

7 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Juliodogpit

78

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,122 members

325 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

79

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,371 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: Juliodogpit

80

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

3,694 members

47 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

81

Independent People

by Halldór Laxness

3,415 members

120 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

82

The Complete Short Stories

by W. Somerset Maugham

674 members

8 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

83

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

7,665 members

172 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

84

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

7,333 members

106 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

85

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

15,557 members

270 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

86

33,612 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Juliodogpit

87

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,659 members

264 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

88

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,830 members

335 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

89

Light in August

by William Faulkner

10,403 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

90

by Louisa May Alcott

33,261 members

473 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

91

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,575 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

92

44,115 members

700 reviews

4.1

Member: Juliodogpit

93

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,703 members

416 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

94

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad

5,329 members

70 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

95

Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,593 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, Juliodogpit

96

by Jorge Luis Borges

8,888 members

134 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Juliodogpit

97

The Magic Mountain

11,240 members

195 reviews

4.2

Member: Juliodogpit

98

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,871 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Juliodogpit

99

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

8,645 members

115 reviews

4.1

Member: Juliodogpit

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Les Misérables

30,689 members

380 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Juliodogpit

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