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Finest Works of Fiction (According to Martin Seymour-Smith and Editors)

Here is another good list with some surprising selections. From original list description:
"In Novels and Novelists, A Guide to the World of Fiction (1980) Seymour-Smith and the other contributors selected about 55 works of fiction as receiving full marks on the four criteria used for evaluation: Readability, Characterization, Plot, and Literary Merit. These represent, for the contributors, the finest works of fiction that have been written".
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Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
2
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3
Emma
Emma
4
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette
5
Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)
Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)
6
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
7
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
8
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
9
The Stories of Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
The Stories of Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
10
Adolphe (Benjamin Constant)
Adolphe (Benjamin Constant)
11
Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders
12
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
13
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
14
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
15
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
16
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
17
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
18
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
19
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom!
20
Amelia (Henry Fielding)
Amelia (Henry Fielding)
21
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education
22
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
23
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
24
Dead Souls
Dead Souls
25
Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)
Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)
26
Mysteries (Knut Hamsun)
Mysteries (Knut Hamsun)
27
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge
28
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
29
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady
30
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
31
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
32
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time
33
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano
34
The Betrothed (Alessandro Manzoni)
The Betrothed (Alessandro Manzoni)
35
The Confusions of Young Törless (Robert Musil)
The Confusions of Young Törless (Robert Musil)
36
The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese (Cesare Pavese)
The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese (Cesare Pavese)
37
The Moon and the Bonfires (Cesare Pavese/ Tim Parks (Tr.))
The Moon and the Bonfires (Cesare Pavese/ Tim Parks (Tr.))
38
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
39
Gimpel the Fool (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Gimpel the Fool (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
40
The Man Who Loved Children
The Man Who Loved Children
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