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The Average Goodreads Member Has Only Read 16 Out of These 101 Books

The Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time List" represents a list of 100 literary novels recommended by the Goodreads Serious Literature Group for voting by all Goodreads Members via Listopia.
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
1
George Orwell
Adam Bede (George Eliot)
Adam Bede
2
George Eliot
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
3
Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4
Mark Twain
The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell)
The Alexandria Quartet
5
Lawrence Durrell
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men
6
Robert Penn Warren
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
7
Erich Maria Remarque
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
8
Theodore Dreiser
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
9
Leo Tolstoy
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
10
Kate Chopin
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness
11
José Saramago
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
12
Cormac McCarthy
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
13
Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
14
Evelyn Waugh
Bridge of Sighs
Bridge of Sighs
15
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
16
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward
17
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
18
Voltaire
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
19
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
20
J.D. Salinger
Cat's Eye (Margaret Atwood)
Cat's Eye
21
Margaret Atwood
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
22
John Kennedy Toole
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
23
Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24
Darconville's Cat (Alexander Theroux)
Darconville's Cat
25
Alexander Theroux
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
26
Charles Dickens
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
27
Nikolai Gogol
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
28
Willa Cather
The Death of Virgil (Hermann Broch)
The Death of Virgil
29
Hermann Broch
The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman (J.P. Donleavy)
The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman
30
J.P. Donleavy
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
31
Miguel De Cervantes
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
32
John Steinbeck
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
33
Jorge Luis Borges
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
34
James Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
35
Ernest Hemingway
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga
36
John Galsworthy
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Gilead
37
Marilynne Robinson
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
38
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
39
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
40
Carson McCullers
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