The 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time

This one is from The Guardian

I will cross the books off as I read them. Titles in italics are ones that I own. So if you want to buy me a book, go for the unread, unowned ones!

Current Stats - 10/100 read. I have read more than this, but don’t remember them well enough to feel good about crossing them off. Will re-read before doing so.

1. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes

2. Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan

3. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

4. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift

5. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

6. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson

7. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne

8. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

9. Emma - Jane Austen

10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

11. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock

12. The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac

13. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal

14. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

15. Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli

16. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

17. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

18. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

19. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

20. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

21. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

22. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

23. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

24. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

25. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott

26. The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope

27. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

28. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot

29. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

30. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

31. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

33. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

34. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

35. The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith

36. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

37. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers

38. The Call of the Wild - Jack London

39. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

40. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

41. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

42. The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence

43. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

44. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan

45. Ulysses - James Joyce

46. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

47. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster

48. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

49. The Trial - Franz Kafka

50. Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway

51. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

52. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

53. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

54. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

55. USA - John Dos Passos

56. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

57. The Pursuit Of Love - Nancy Mitford

58. The Plague - Albert Camus

59. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

60. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett

61. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

62. Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor

63. Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White

64. The Lord Of The Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

65. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

66. Lord of the Flies - William Golding

67. The Quiet American - Graham Greene

68. On the Road - Jack Kerouac

69. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

70. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass

71. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

73. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

74. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

75. Herzog - Saul Bellow

76. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor

78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre

79. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison

80. The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge

81. The Executioner’s Song - Norman Mailer

82. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino

83. A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul

84. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee

85. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

86. Lanark - Alasdair Gray

87. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

88. The BFG - Roald Dahl

89. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi

90. Money - Martin Amis

91. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro

92. Oscar And Lucinda - Peter Carey

93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera

94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories - Salman Rushdie

95. La Confidential-  James Ellroy

96. Wise Children - Angela Carter

97. Atonement - Ian McEwan

98. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

99. American Pastoral - Philip Roth

100. Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald