100+ Novels

The 100+ Best Novels I Have Read.

1. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
2. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
3. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
4. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
5. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
6. Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
7. Middlemarch, George Eliot
8. Beloved, Toni Morrison
9. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
10. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
11. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
12. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
13. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
14. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
15. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
16. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
17. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
19. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
20. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
21. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
22. The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
23. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
24. Ada, or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
25. Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
26. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
27. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
28. The Waves, Virginia Woolf
29. Light in August, William Faulkner
30. Howards End, E.M. Forster
31. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
32. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
33. Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy
34. Go Tell It on a Mountain, James Baldwin
35. My Ántonia, Willa Cather
36. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
37. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
38. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
39. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
40. Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf
41. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
42. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
43. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
44. Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins
45. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
46. Cane, Jean Toomer
47. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
48. O Pioneers! Willa Cather
49. 1984, George Orwell
50. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
51. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
52. The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk
53. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
54. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
55. May We Be Forgiven, A.M. Homes
56. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
57. A Mercy, Toni Morrison
58. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
59. Confessions of a Mask, Mishima Yukio
60. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
61. Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell
62. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
63. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
64. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
65. Sula, Toni Morrison
66. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
67. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
68. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
69. Snow Country, Kawabata Yasunari
70. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
71. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
72. This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
73. Cousin Bette, Honoré de Balzac
74. Emma, Jane Austen
75. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
76. Home, Marilynne Robinson
77. Tinkers, Paul Harding
78. Native Son, Richard Wright
79. Atonement, Ian McEwan
80. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
81. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
82. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
83. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
84. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
85. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
86. Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
87. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
88. A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
89. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
90. If on a winter’s night a traveler, Italo Calvino
91. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
92. Appointment in Samarra, John O’Hara
93. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
94. The Makioka Sisters, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro
95. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
96. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
97. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
98. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
99. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
100. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
101. All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
102. Saturday, Ian McEwan
103. My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk
104. The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
105. To Siberia, Per Petterson
106. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
107. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez
108. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
109. The Black Sheep, Honoré de Balzac
110. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
111. What Is the What, Dave Eggers
112. The Joke, Milan Kundera
113. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
114. Silence, Endo Shusaku
115. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
116. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
117. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
118. Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
119. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
120. The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
121. Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
122. Jazz, Toni Morrison
123. The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
124. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
125. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
126. Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
127. Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac
128. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki
129. Comedy in a Minor Key, Hans Keilson
130. The Diary of a Mad Old Man, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro
131. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
132. Adam Bede, George Eliot
133. A Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
134. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Gary Shteyngart
135. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
136. More Die of Heartbreak, Saul Bellow

List updated: 26 March 2013