This is a list of the 174 Best Novel's of All Time (according to others):
I compiled this list from a number of "expert" literary sources. I have read the books in blue text, and plan to read the rest over time. I will also be adding my personal favorites to the list. Why am I doing this?
Don't know!
1
ULYSSES by James Joyce
2
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
3
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4
THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
5
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
6
BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
7
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
8
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
9
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
10
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
11
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
12
1984 by George Orwell
13
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
14
ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
15
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
16
WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
17
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
18
MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
19
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
20
FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
21
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
22
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
23
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
24
DUNE by Frank Herbert
25
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
26
THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
27
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
28
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
29
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
30
A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
31
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
32
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
33
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
34
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
35
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
36
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
37
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
38
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
39
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
40
WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
41
GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
42
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
43
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
44
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
45
SHANE by Jack Schaefer
46
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
47
TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
48
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
49
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
50
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
51
THE STAND by Stephen King
52
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
53
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
54
BELOVED by Toni Morrison
55
THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
56
THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
57
SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
58
A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
59
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
60
MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
61
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
62
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
63
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
64
OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
65
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
66
WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
67
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
68
THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
69
FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
70
SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
71
DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
72
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
73
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
74
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
75
POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
76
YARROW by Charles de Lint
77
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
78
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
79
THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
80
ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
81
NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
82
MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
83
THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
84
WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
85
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
86
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
87
TRADER by Charles de Lint
88
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
89
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
90
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
91
PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
92
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
93
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
94
BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
95
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
96
THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
97
ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
98
PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
99
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
100
GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
101
ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
102
ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
103
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
104
THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
105
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
106
THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
107
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
108
STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
109
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
110
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
111
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
112
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
113
MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
114
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
115
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
116
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
117
THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
118
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
119
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
120
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
121
THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
122
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
123
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
124
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
125
SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
126
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
127
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
128
AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
129
FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
130
FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
131
KIM by Rudyard Kipling
132
ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
133
A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
134
WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
135
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
136
NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
137
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
138
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
139
ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
140
GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
141
A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
142
THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
143
THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
144
IT by Stephen King
145
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
146
V. by Thomas Pynchon
147
RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
148
DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
149
THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
150
CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
151
LOVING by Henry Green
152
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
153
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
154
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
155
TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
156
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
157
IRONWEED by William Kennedy
158
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
159
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
160
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
161
WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
162
MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
163
UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
164
MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
165
SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
166
SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
167
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
168
MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
169
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
170
ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
171
THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
172
THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
173
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
174
THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
ULYSSES by James Joyce
2
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
3
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4
THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
5
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
6
BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
7
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
8
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
9
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
10
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
11
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
12
1984 by George Orwell
13
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
14
ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
15
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
16
WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
17
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
18
MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
19
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
20
FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
21
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
22
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
23
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
24
DUNE by Frank Herbert
25
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
26
THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
27
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
28
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
29
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
30
A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
31
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
32
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
33
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
34
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
35
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
36
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
37
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
38
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
39
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
40
WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
41
GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
42
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
43
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
44
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
45
SHANE by Jack Schaefer
46
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
47
TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
48
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
49
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
50
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
51
THE STAND by Stephen King
52
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
53
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
54
BELOVED by Toni Morrison
55
THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
56
THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
57
SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
58
A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
59
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
60
MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
61
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
62
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
63
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
64
OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
65
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
66
WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
67
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
68
THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
69
FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
70
SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
71
DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
72
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
73
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
74
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
75
POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
76
YARROW by Charles de Lint
77
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
78
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
79
THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
80
ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
81
NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
82
MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
83
THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
84
WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
85
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
86
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
87
TRADER by Charles de Lint
88
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
89
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
90
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
91
PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
92
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
93
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
94
BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
95
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
96
THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
97
ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
98
PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
99
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
100
GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
101
ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
102
ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
103
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
104
THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
105
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
106
THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
107
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
108
STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
109
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
110
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
111
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
112
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
113
MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
114
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
115
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
116
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
117
THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
118
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
119
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
120
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
121
THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
122
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
123
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
124
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
125
SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
126
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
127
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
128
AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
129
FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
130
FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
131
KIM by Rudyard Kipling
132
ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
133
A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
134
WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
135
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
136
NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
137
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
138
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
139
ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
140
GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
141
A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
142
THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
143
THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
144
IT by Stephen King
145
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
146
V. by Thomas Pynchon
147
RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
148
DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
149
THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
150
CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
151
LOVING by Henry Green
152
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
153
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
154
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
155
TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
156
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
157
IRONWEED by William Kennedy
158
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
159
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
160
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
161
WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
162
MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
163
UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
164
MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
165
SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
166
SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
167
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
168
MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
169
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
170
ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
171
THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
172
THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
173
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
174
THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
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