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Great Picaresque Novels

A picaresque novel is defined as "a genre of usually satiric prose fiction; often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society." in practical terms it has evolved into a novel, usually humorous, that involves travels and adventures of one or more misfits, innocents, non-conformists, or rogues in a world or society they don't belong to. This list begins with112 n of the "best examples " ( according to Goodreads), and then concludes with several of my own selections.
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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Lazarillo De Tormes (Anonymous)
Lazarillo De Tormes (Anonymous)
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Candide (Voltaire)
Candide (Voltaire)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
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The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek)
The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek)
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The Satyricon
The Satyricon
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
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Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews
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Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
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The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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The Bad Beginning
The Bad Beginning
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Dead Souls (Gogol)
Dead Souls (Gogol)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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Simplicissimus
Simplicissimus
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The Adventures of Gil Blas
The Adventures of Gil Blas
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Jitterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins)
Jitterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins)
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Humphrey Clinker (Tobias Smollett)
Humphrey Clinker (Tobias Smollett)
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The Arabian Nights (Anonymous)
The Arabian Nights (Anonymous)
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The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut)
The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut)
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The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49
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The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
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The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
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The Twelve Chairs (Ilya Ilf)
The Twelve Chairs (Ilya Ilf)
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The Adventures of Roderick Random
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
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Monkey (Wu Cheng'en)
Monkey (Wu Cheng'en)
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Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night
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The Ginger Man (J.P. Donleavy)
The Ginger Man (J.P. Donleavy)
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White Noise
White Noise
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Jonathan Wild (Henry Fielding)
Jonathan Wild (Henry Fielding)
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Jan Potocki)
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Jan Potocki)
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Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
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