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The Average Goodreads Member Has Only Read 16 Out of These 101 Books - Page 2

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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A House for Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul)
A House for Mr. Biswas
41
V.S. Naipaul
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
The House of Mirth
42
Edith Wharton
Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)
Humboldt's Gift
43
Saul Bellow
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
I, Claudius
44
Robert Graves
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
45
Marcel Proust
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
46
David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
47
Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
48
Charlotte Brontë
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
Jazz
49
Toni Morrison
JR
JR
50
Life and Fate (Vassily Grossman)
Life and Fate
51
Vassily Grossman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
52
Laurence Sterne
Light in August (William Faulkner)
Light in August
53
William Faulkner
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
54
Vladimir Nabokov
Lost Illusions (Honoré De Balzac)
Lost Illusions
55
Honoré De Balzac
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
56
Thomas Mann
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
The Maltese Falcon
57
Dashiell Hammett
Mason and Dixon
Mason and Dixon
58
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
59
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
60
Franz Kafka
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
61
George Eliot
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Middlesex
62
Jeffrey Eugenides
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
63
Herman Melville
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
My Antonia
64
Willa Cather
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
65
Umberto Eco
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son
66
Richard Wright
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
67
John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
68
Ernest Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
69
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
70
Vladimir Nabokov
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
71
Albert Camus
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
72
Jane Austen
Rabbit Angstrom Series
Rabbit Angstrom Series
73
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
74
William Gaddis
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
75
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
76
Kurt Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
Sons and Lovers
77
D.H. Lawrence
The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
The Sot-Weed Factor
78
John Barth
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
79
William Faulkner
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
80
Albert Camus
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