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Best 100 Novels of All Time in Any Language

This is a consolidated list of the best English and non-English language novels from Piero Scaruffi's web site. It was compiled in 2019 by his colleague Brett Abrahamsen.
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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
1
Franz Kafka
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
2
Stendhal
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks
3
Thomas Mann
The Golden Bowl (Henry James)
The Golden Bowl
4
Henry James
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
5
James Joyce
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
6
Francois Rabelais
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
7
Miguel De Cervantes
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
8
Mikhail Bulgakov
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
9
Emily Brontë
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
10
Robert Musil
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor
11
Vladimir Nabokov
Insatiability
Insatiability
12
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
The Charterhouse of Parma
13
Stendhal
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
14
Thomas Pynchon
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
15
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Light in August (William Faulkner)
Light in August
16
William Faulkner
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
17
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
18
Virginia Woolf
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
19
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
20
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (J. W. Von Goethe)
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
21
J. W. Von Goethe
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
22
William Gaddis
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
Nostromo
23
Joseph Conrad
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
24
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
25
Franz Kafka
Giles Goat-Boy (John Barth)
Giles Goat-Boy
26
John Barth
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
27
Leo Tolstoy
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
28
Nikolai Gogol
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
29
Herman Melville
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
30
Marcel Proust
Confessions of Zeno (Italo Svevo)
Confessions of Zeno
31
Italo Svevo
The Obscene Bird of Night (Jose Donoso)
The Obscene Bird of Night
32
Jose Donoso
Elective Affinities (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Elective Affinities
33
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
34
Salman Rushdie
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
35
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
36
Albert Camus
The Death of Virgil (Hermann Broch)
The Death of Virgil
37
Hermann Broch
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
38
Leo Tolstoy
Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)
Oblomov
39
Ivan Goncharov
Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
Doctor Faustus
40
Thomas Mann
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