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The Top 54 Greatest Novels
1. Lord of the Rings 2. The Catcher in the Rye 3. The Graveyard Book 4. The Goldfinch 5. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 6. Musashi 7. The Master and Margarita 8. The Chronicles of Narnia 9. White Nights 10. The Death of Ivan Ilych 11. The Rebel 12. Stranger in a Strange Land 13.
- Lord of the Rings
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Graveyard Book
- The Goldfinch
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Musashi
- The Master and Margarita
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- White Nights
- The Death of Ivan Ilych
- The Rebel
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- The Seagull
- The Little Prince
- War and Peace
- Hamlet
- In Search of Lost Time (6 Volumes)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1)
- Cat’s Cradle
- Gravity’s Rainbow
- Infinite Jest
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Prophet
- Ulysses
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Moon is Down
- Cannery Row
- East of Eden
- Of Mice & Men
- The Bonfire of the Vanities
- The Great Gatsby
- Anna Karenina
- The Mysterious Stranger
- Island
- The Road to Wigan Pier
- Ivan the Fool
- The Divine Comedy
- Inferno
- Demons
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Moby-Dick or, the Whale
- Darkness at Noon
- Don Quixote
- Faust
- Imago
- The Idiot
- The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
- One Thousand and One Nights
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest
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