The greatest novels of all time
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1.
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia)
98 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
2.
The Brothers Karamasov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia)
96 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
3.
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, Russia)
94 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
4.
Don Quixote (Servantes, Spain)
92 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
5.
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens, UK)
81 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
6.
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo, France)
80 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
7.
Ulysses (James Joyce, Ireland)
60 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
8.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, USA)
53 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
9.
The Last of the Mohicans (Fenimore Cooper, USA)
52 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
10.
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy, Russia)
47 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
11.
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann, Germany)
40 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
12.
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, UK)
38 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
13.
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, UK)
38 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
14.
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift, UK)
35 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
15.
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, USA)
35 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
16.
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott, UK)
34 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
17.
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin, Russia)
34 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
18.
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia)
34 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
19.
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/USA)
24 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
20.
To The Lighthouse (Virginia Wolf, UK)
21 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
21.
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia (USSR))
15 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
22.
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James, USA/UK)
14 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
23.
In Search of Lost Time (Marsel Proust, France)
14 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
24.
The War of the Worlds (Herbert Wells, UK)
13 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
25.
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumes pere, France)
12 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
26.
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, UK)
10 points - added 9 years ago by guest -
27.
A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov, Russia)
10 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
28.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (H.B. Stowe, USA)
9 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
29.
Dracula (Bram Stoker, Ireland)
9 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
30.
Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien, UK)
8 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
31.
Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov, Russia)
7 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
32.
The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek, Czech Republic)
5 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
33.
The Trial (Franz Kafka, Austria)
5 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
34.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce, Ireland)
5 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
35.
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol, Russia)
5 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
36.
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco, Italy)
4 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
37.
1984 (George Orwell, UK)
4 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
38.
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev, Russia)
4 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
39.
Hunger (Knut Hamsun, Norway)
3 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
40.
The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens, UK)
3 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
41.
The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
If this gem is listed, I missed it as I read (scanned) the list.
2 points - added 7 years ago by guest -
42.
Daphnis and Chloe (Longus, Greece/Roman Empire)
2 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
43.
The Red and the Black (Stendhal, France)
2 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
44.
For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway, USA)
2 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
45.
The Hobbit
1 point - added 7 years ago by guest -
46.
Germinal (Emile Zola, France)
1 point - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
47.
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flobert, France)
1 point - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
48.
Library Book Scannin (William Faulkner, USA)
0 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
49.
One the Road (Jack Kerouac, USA)
0 points - added 12 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
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