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. The Seagull
  14. The Little Prince
  15. War and Peace
  16. Hamlet
  17. In Search of Lost Time (6 Volumes)
  18. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
  19. The Brothers Karamazov
  20. Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1)
  21. Cat’s Cradle
  22. Gravity’s Rainbow
  23. Infinite Jest
  24. Pride and Prejudice
  25. The Prophet
  26. Ulysses
  27. The Grapes of Wrath
  28. The Moon is Down
  29. Cannery Row
  30. East of Eden
  31. Of Mice & Men
  32. The Bonfire of the Vanities
  33. The Great Gatsby
  34. Anna Karenina
  35. The Mysterious Stranger
  36. Island
  37. The Road to Wigan Pier
  38. Ivan the Fool
  39. The Divine Comedy
  40. Inferno
  41. Demons
  42. Slaughterhouse-Five
  43. A Tale of Two Cities
  44. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  45. Moby-Dick or, the Whale
  46. Darkness at Noon
  47. Don Quixote
  48. Faust
  49. Imago
  50. The Idiot
  51. The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
  52. One Thousand and One Nights
  53. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
  54. Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest

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