Best 100 Novels

Top 100 novels of all time voted by regular people

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       We asked people to choose the best 100 novels of all time.  We then awarded one point to each top ten vote and entered them all into a database.  We simply took the top 100 novels and put them on the list.  If you disagree with the list we would like to hear from you.  Go to our TOP 10 SUBMISSION PAGE to submit your top 10 novels list and we'll add your top 10 to our database and include them in our next update.  You can read a review of any of the top 100 novels by clicking on the title.

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1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
10. Ulysses by James Joyce
11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell
14. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
15. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
16. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
17. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
19. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
20. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
21. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
22. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
23. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
25. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
26. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
27. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
28. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
29. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
30. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
31. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
32. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
33. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
35. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
36. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
38. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
39. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
40. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
41. The Stranger by Albert Camus
42. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
43. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
44. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
45. The Stand by Stephen King
46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
47. His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
48. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
49. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
50. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
51. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
52. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
53. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
54. Watership Down by Richard Adams
55. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
56. Dracula by Bram Stoker
57. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
58. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
59. Dune by Frank Herbert
60. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
61. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
62. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
63. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
64. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
65. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
66. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
67. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
68. Middlemarch by George Eliot
69. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
70. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
71. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
72. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
73. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
74. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
75. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
76. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
77. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
78. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
79. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
80. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
81. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
82. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
83. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
84. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
85. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
86. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
87. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
88. Persuasion by Jane Austen
89. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
90. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
91. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
92. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
93. Beloved by Toni Morrison
94. Light in August by William Faulkner
95. The Trial by Franz Kafka
96. Atonement by Ian McEwan
97. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
98. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
99. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
100. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Best 100 novels updated 4-29-2008