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The English Teacher's Novel 100: A Personal List of Some of the Greatest Novels Written

This is not a list of the Greatest ever written in that it does not presuppose that everything else is of lesser quality or importance. As the title suggests, these 100 novels are SOME of the greatest ever written ( in my humble opinion at any rate). Since I set the limit at 100, there were many novels I had to leave off. I tried to find a balance of novels that were of some historical and/or cultural importance, of diversity of authors in terms of race, gender, and nationality, and of genre and "literary" fiction. I don't necessarily like all of them: but all of them are worth the time and effort to read. I tried to limit the list to 1 book per author, but ultimately had to put 2 by Tolstoy on it; I avoided the same problem with Conrad by deciding that "Heart of Darkness" was a novella, not a novel.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
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And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokhov)
And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokhov)
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
7
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
8
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
9
A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
10
Berlin Alexander-Platz
Berlin Alexander-Platz
11
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
12
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
13
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
14
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
15
Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep
16
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
17
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
18
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
19
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
20
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma
21
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
22
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
23
Dead Souls
Dead Souls
24
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
25
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
26
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
27
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
28
Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane)
Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane)
29
Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons
30
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
31
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
32
Germinal – Emile Zola
Germinal – Emile Zola
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The Glass Key (Dashiell Hammett)
The Glass Key (Dashiell Hammett)
34
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
35
The Good Soldier Svejk
The Good Soldier Svejk
36
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
37
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
38
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
39
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
40
The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
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