(Somebody's) List of Best novels of all time

[Borges]

This one from a 2004 book called 'The Novel 100' A rankling of the 100 best novels of all time...

1. Don Quixote - Cervantes
2. War and Peace - Tolstoy
3. Ulysses - Joyce
4. In Search of Lost Time - Proust
5. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
6. Moby Dick - Melville
7. Madame Bovay - Flaubert
8 Middlemarch - George Eliot
9. The Magic Mountain - Mann
10. The Tale of Genji - Lady Murasaki
11. Emma - Austen
12. Bleak house - Dickens
13. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
15. Tom Jones - Fielding
16. Great Expectations - Dickens
17. Absolom, Absolom - Faulkner
18. The Ambassadors - HenryJames
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
20. The GReat Gatsby- Fitzgerald
21. To the Lighthouse - Woolf
22. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
23. The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
24. Vanity Fair - Thackeray
25. Invisble Man - Ellison
26. Finnegan's Wake - Joyce
27. The Man Without Qulaities - Musil
28. Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
29. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
30. Women in Love - Lawrence
31. The Red and the Black - Stendahl
32. Tristram Shandy - Sterne
33. Dead Souls - Gogol
34. Tess of the D'Urbevilles - Hardy
35. Buddenbrooks - Hardy
36. Le Pere Goirot - Balzac
37. A Portrait of the Artitst as a Young Man - Joyce
38. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
39. The Tin Drum - Grass
40. Molloy Malone Dies, The Unnameable - Beckett
41. Pride and Prejudice - Austen
42. The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
43. Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
44. Nostromo - Conrad
45. Beloved - Morrison
46. An American TRagedy - Dreiser
47. Lolita - Nabokov
48. The Golden Notebook - Lessing
49. Clarrissa - Richardson
50. Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin
51. The Trial - Kafka
52. Jane Erye - Charlotte Bronte
53. The Red Badge of Courage - Crane
54. The GRapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
55. Petersburg - Bely
56. Things Fall apart - Achebe
57. The Princess of cleves - Lafayette
58. The Stranger - Camus
59. My Antonia - Cather
60. The coutnerfeiters - Gide
61. The Age of Innocence - Wharton
62. The Good Soldier - Ford
63. The Awakening - Chopin
64. A Passage to India - Forster
65. Herzog - Bellow
66. Germinal - Zola
67. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
68. U.S.A. Trilogy - Dos Passos
69. Hunger - Hamsun
70. Berlin Alexanderplatz- Doblin
71. Cities of Salt - Munif
72. The Death of Artemio Cruz - Fuentes
73. A Farwell to Arms - Hemmingway
74. Brideshead Revisited - Waugh
75. The LAst chronicle of Barset - Trollope
76. The Pickwick Papers - Dickens
77. Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
78. The sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
79. Candide - Voltaire
80. Native Son - Wright
81. Under the Volcano - Lowry
82. Oblomov - Goncharov
83. Their eyes Were Watching God - Hurston
84. Waverly - Scott
85. Snow country - Kawabata
86. 1984 - Orwell
87. The Betrothed - Manzoni
88. The Last of the Mohicans - Cooper
89. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Stowe
90. Les Miserables - Hugo
91. On the Road - Kerouac
92. Frankenstien - Shelley
93. The Leopard - Lampedusa
94. The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
95. The Woman in the White - Collins
96. The Good Soldier Svejk - Hasek
97. Dracula - Stoker
98. The Three Musketeers - Dumas
99. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Doyle
100.Gone with the Wind - Mitchell

[mware]

HOMER: Iliad, Odyssey AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes THUCYDIDES: Peloponnesian War EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, Bacchae HERODOTUS: Histories ARISTOPHANES: Clouds

Plus most of the works of Shakespeare

[Young Werther]

"The Red and the Black" - Stendahl

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" - Goethe, (Napolean's favorite. supposedly he is always pictured with his hand inside his lapel since he kept this book in his jacket pocket "close to his heart!")

"Th Foundation Series" - Asimov

[GSWarrior]

Notable omissions, IMO:

Rand, Arthur Koestler and Hesse.

[gate2wire]

Like Shakespeare and Homer.

Couldn't stand Tolstoy, Joyce, James.
Flaubert, just looking at it on my bookshelf bores me.

[kidd]

You have to get down to #14 (Huck Finn) before you find one that's actually enjoyable to read.

[gate2wire]

"Rand, Arthur Koestler and Hesse."

Must admit I liked Darkness at Noon.

[Cyclopean Squid]

I disagree. War and Peace is awesome. I own many of the others in the top 13 but have yet to get around to reading them.

[Cyclopean Squid]

Darkness at Noon is, um, a No. 1 dystopia.

[Borges]

How can you not like Tolsoty at hi best. War and Peace and Anna Karenin are like Life is writing itself. I'm not counting the philosphical drivel in the former which is easily skipped.

[#1CTYankee]

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, the first book I was assigned to read in school that I actually read.

[Borges]

You don't think Dickens or Austen are enjoyable to read?

[gate2wire]

"Notable omissions, IMO:"

Just noticed- No Solzhenitsyn either.

[Cyclopean Squid]

And the lame proto-Marxist essay at the end of War and Peace is also best left unread. But the novel itself is top-tier. How can anyone not be a fan of Pierre?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

For the record I read and enjoyed Ulysses.

You're the only one, my friend!

Dumas at 98 is unacceptable. The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers should be in the top 20.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Good: Only 1 Hemingway

How dare you!

[Cyclopean Squid]

I tried to read Ulysses but gave up after about 50 pages. It sounds like I'm in the mainstream there.

I'm reading the Count of Monte Cristo now. Love it, even if the Count is even more far-sighted and masterfully manipulative than the Rove of DU's nightmares.

[RabidBartender]

Have another drink, you. On the house.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I certainly don't agree with the whole list, but it's scary how many of them I have actually read....And how many of them I consider highly overrated.

[xcullen]

Beat me to it

[Borges]

Your tagline is a good one line summary of all the philosophical chapters in War and Peace! They say it's a novel about the fact that life goes on despite novels.