Books: The Novel 100
Jonathan posted about The Novel 100 - the hundred best novels of all time, at least according to the book by Daniel Burt. Obviously there will be disagreements - what, Gone With the Wind but no To Kill a Mockingbird? - but there are a lot of books here that would probably be on anyone's list.
I'm ashamed to say that I've read fewer than a quarter of them. And most of those I have read were read years ago, probably for school. The only ones I've read or re-read even relatively recently - like in the last decade - are Things Fall Apart, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and On The Road.
I guess it's time to get to work. I sense a new Collection in my future.
So here's my list. The ones in red are the one's I've read. The ones in green are titles that are completely new to me.
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1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes
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2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy
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3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce
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4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust
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5 The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky
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6 Moby-Dick 1851 Herman Melville
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7 Madame Bovary 1857 Gustave Flaubert
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8 Middlemarch 1871-72 George Eliot
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9 The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann
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10 The Tale of Genji 11th Century Murasaki Shikibu
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11 Emma 1816 Jane Austen
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12 Bleak House 1852-53 Charles Dickens
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13 Anna Karenina 1877 Leo Tolstoy
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14 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884 Mark Twain
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15 Tom Jones 1749 Henry Fielding
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16 Great Expectations 1860-61 Charles Dickens
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17 Absalom, Absalom! 1936 William Faulkner
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18 The Ambassadors 1903 Henry James
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19 100 Years of Solitude 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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20 The Great Gatsby 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald
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21 To The Lighthouse 1927 Virginia Woolf
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22 Crime and Punishment 1866 Feodor Dostoevsky
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23 The Sound and the Fury 1929 William Faulkner
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24 Vanity Fair 1847-48 William Makepeace Thackeray
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25 Invisible Man 1952 Ralph Ellison
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26 Finnegans Wake 1939 James Joyce
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27 The Man Without Qualities 1930-43 Robert Musil
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28 Gravity's Rainbow 1973 Thomas Pynchon
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29 The Portrait of a Lady 1881 Henry James
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30 Women in Love 1920 D. H. Lawrence
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31 The Red and the Black 1830 Stendhal
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32 Tristram Shandy 1760-67 Laurence Sterne
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33 Dead Souls 1842 Nikolai Gogol
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34 Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1891 Thomas Hardy
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35 Buddenbrooks 1901 Thomas Mann
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36 Le Pere Goriot 1835 Honore de Balzac
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37 A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man 1916 James Joyce
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38 Wuthering Heights 1847 Emily Bronte
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39 The Tin Drum 1959 Gunter Grass
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40 Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable 1951-53 Samuel Beckett
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41 Pride and Prejudice 1813 Jane Austen
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42 The Scarlet Letter 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne
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43 Fathers and Sons 1862 Ivan Turgenev
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44 Nostromo 1904 Joseph Conrad
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45 Beloved 1987 Toni Morrison
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46 An American Tragedy 1925 Theodore Dreiser
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47 Lolita 1955 Vladimir Nabokov
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48 The Golden Notebook 1962 Doris Lessing
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49 Clarissa 1747-48 Samuel Richardson
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50 Dream of the Red Chamber 1791 Cao Xueqin
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51 The Trial 1925 Franz Kafka
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52 Jane Eyre 1847 Charlotte Bronte
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53 The Red Badge of Courage 1895 Stephen Crane
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54 The Grapes of Wrath 1939 John Steinbeck
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55 Petersburg 1916/1922 Andrey Bely
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56 Things Fall Apart 1958 Chinue Achebe
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57 The Princess of Cleves 1678 Madame de Lafayette
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58 The Stranger 1942 Albert Camus
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59 My Antonia 1918 Willa Cather
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60 The Counterfeiters 1926 Andre Gide
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61 The Age of Innocence 1920 Edith Wharton
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62 The Good Soldier 1915 Ford Madox Ford
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63 The Awakening 1899 Kate Chopin
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64 A Passage to India 1924 E. M. Forster
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65 Herzog 1964 Saul Bellow
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66 Germinal 1855 Emile Zola
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67 Call It Sleep 1934 Henry Roth
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68 U.S.A. Trilogy 1930-38 John Dos Passos
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69 Hunger 1890 Knut Hamsun
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70 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929 Alfred Doblin
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71 Cities of Salt 1984-89 'Abd al-Rahman Munif
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72 The Death of Artemio Cruz 1962 Carlos Fuentes
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73 A Farewell to Arms 1929 Ernest Hemingway
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74 Brideshead Revisited 1945 Evelyn Waugh
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75 The Last Chronicle of Barset 1866-67 Anthony Trollope
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76 The Pickwick Papers 1836-67 Charles Dickens
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77 Robinson Crusoe 1719 Daniel Defoe
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78 The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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79 Candide 1759 Voltaire
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80 Native Son 1940 Richard Wright
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81 Under the Volcano 1947 Malcolm Lowry
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82 Oblomov 1859 Ivan Goncharov
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83 Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 Zora Neale Hurston
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84 Waverley 1814 Sir Walter Scott
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85 Snow Country 1937, 1948 Kawabata Yasunari
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86 Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949 George Orwell
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87 The Betrothed 1827, 1840 Alessandro Manzoni
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88 The Last of the Mohicans 1826 James Fenimore Cooper
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89 Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe
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90 Les Miserables 1862 Victor Hugo
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91 On the Road 1957 Jack Kerouac
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92 Frankenstein 1818 Mary Shelley
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93 The Leopard 1958 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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94 The Catcher in the Rye 1951 J.D. Salinger
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95 The Woman in White 1860 Wilkie Collins
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96 The Good Soldier Svejk 1921-23 Jaroslav Hasek
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97 Dracula 1897 Bram Stoker
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98 The Three Musketeers 1844 Alexandre Dumas
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99 The Hound of Baskervilles 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle
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100 Gone with the Wind 1936 Margaret Mitchell
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