The Novel 100
Book written by Daniel S. Burt, each entry provides a plot summary and assessment, with an emphasis on details about the novel's creation, critical reception, and contribution to literary history. Additional features include a chronology, a list of honorable mentions ("A Second Hundred"), and an index. Surveying those works that have defined and altered the novel as a genre, The Novel 100 is sure to engage readers in a spirited discussion of literary values. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Burt_(author)
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
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Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
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In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 0 lists
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 · 22 lists
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 0 lists
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
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Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · 26 lists
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The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 · 18 lists
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The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu · 2000 · 10 lists
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Emma
Jane Austen · 1815 · 12 lists
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 11 lists
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1876 · 24 lists
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 0 lists
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Tom Jones
Henry Fielding · 1749 · 11 lists
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 1861 · 19 lists
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Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · 1936 · 16 lists
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The Ambassadors
Henry James · 1903 · 8 lists
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 0 lists
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 0 lists
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To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927 · 25 lists
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · 22 lists
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 · 26 lists
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1847 · 15 lists
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Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842 · 12 lists
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Father Goriot
Honoré de Balzac · 2012 · 0 lists
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881 · 13 lists
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Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence · 1920 · 9 lists
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The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 1830 · 14 lists
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne · 1759 · 0 lists
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Finnegans Wake
James Joyce · 1928 · 0 lists
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Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 1891 · 0 lists
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Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann · 1909 · 11 lists
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 · 0 lists
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The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil · 1979 · 8 lists
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · 1916 · 15 lists
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Molloy
Samuel Beckett · 1951 · 0 lists
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Malone Dies
Samuel Beckett · 1997 · 0 lists
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The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett · 2014 · 0 lists
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The Tin Drum
Günter Grass · 1959 · 0 lists
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850 · 13 lists
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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon · 1973 · 0 lists
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Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · 0 lists
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Nostromo
Joseph Conrad · 1904 · 9 lists
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev · 1907 · 5 lists
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The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 · 21 lists
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 0 lists
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925 · 20 lists
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Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Xueqin · 1958 · 0 lists
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Clarissa
Samuel Richardson · 1748 · 6 lists
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Persuasion
Jane Austen · 1817 · 7 lists
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · 26 lists
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 19 lists
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Petersburg
Andrei Bely · 1979 · 0 lists
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958 · 19 lists
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The Princess of Clèves
Madame de La Fayette · 1678 · 5 lists
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The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 0 lists
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The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane · 1855 · 0 lists
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The Counterfeiters
André Gide · 1985 · 4 lists
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939 · 8 lists
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The Golden Notebook
Doris May Lessing · 1962 · 0 lists
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Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence · 1913 · 11 lists
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The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford · 1915 · 12 lists
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A Passage to India
E. M. Forster · 1924 · 18 lists
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Daniel Deronda
George Eliot · 1800 · 5 lists
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Germinal
Émile Zola · 1885 · 5 lists
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My Ántonia
Willa Cather · 1918 · 0 lists
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An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser · 1900 · 0 lists
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Hunger
Knut Hamsun · 1890 · 8 lists
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin · 1929 · 6 lists
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Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · 1981 · 0 lists
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U.S.A. Trilogy
John Dos Passos · 1960 · 0 lists
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Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · 1995 · 7 lists
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The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal · 1962 · 7 lists
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 2017 · 4 lists
- 78
Cities of Salt
Abdul Rahman Munif · 1984 · 0 lists
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929 · 9 lists
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes · 2006 · 0 lists
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Herzog
Saul Bellow · 1961 · 0 lists
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The Sleepwalkers
Hermann Broch · 1931 · 0 lists
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The Last Chronicle of Barset
Anthony Trollope · 1867 · 3 lists
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The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 1899 · 6 lists
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · 1719 · 11 lists
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Call it Sleep
Henry Roth · 1934 · 6 lists
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Waverley
Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 0 lists
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Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov · 1913 · 3 lists
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937 · 22 lists
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Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry · 1947 · 0 lists
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Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata · 1935 · 0 lists
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 0 lists
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 1915 · 0 lists
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The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens · 1994 · 0 lists
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The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni · 1800 · 3 lists
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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · 1962 · 0 lists
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Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper · 1826 · 5 lists
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 · 16 lists
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1850 · 6 lists
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak · 1958 · 0 lists
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Native Son
Richard Wright · 1940 · 0 lists
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac · 1957 · 0 lists
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818 · 20 lists
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The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · 2000 · 0 lists
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 1920 · 17 lists
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Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis · 1900 · 2 lists
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A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov · 2001 · 0 lists
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 · 0 lists
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Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe · 1722 · 3 lists
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The Good Soldier Švejk
Jaroslav Hašek · 1921 · 6 lists
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 · 0 lists
- 113
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 1945 · 0 lists
- 114
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · 2006 · 0 lists
- 115
American Pastoral
Philip Roth · 1997 · 0 lists
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The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985 · 0 lists
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Manon Lescaut
Abbe Prevost · 1787 · 0 lists
- 118
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins · 1860 · 11 lists
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Some Prefer Nettles
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki · 1929 · 2 lists
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A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul · 1979 · 0 lists
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Cold Nights
Ba Jin · 1978 · 0 lists
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Dracula
Bram Stoker · 1897 · 16 lists
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The Woman in the Dunes
Kobo Abe · 1966 · 0 lists
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Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1936 · 22 lists
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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas · 1970 · 6 lists
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1901 · 11 lists
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880 · 13 lists
