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Some time ago I decided I wanted to read the top 100 novels of all time. I wanted to read those classics that stood the test of time.  I’d just heard a definition of a classic novel as a book that one can learns from, not a book for pure entertainment.  So while these books may not necessarily be great read, they may contain within them lessons we can learn from the character.

Naturally opinions on what the top novels are differs from reader to reader, from year to year, and for region of the world.  But I decided to get a little more scientific about my process.

So this is how I compiled my list of the books I wanted to read. I gathered rankings from the following lists:

I then ranked the books according to the number of times the book appeared on the above lists. First the books that were listed on all six lists were compared with the other books receiving six votes. We averaged the rankings and came up with the average placement on all six lists.

For example, at the time, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald had received the following votes:

  • Random House Readers – 13
  • Random House Board – 2
  • Radcliffe List – 1
  • Time Magazine – 20
  • Guardian Unlimited – 48
  • BBC – 43

This resulted with an average score of 21.166 resulting in a first place. We continued to do that ranking the books which got six votes first, followed by those that got five etc. Every book got at least two votes on the list and the average score determined their rank.

I’m officially starting my quest to read the entire list. I’ve even going to read the ones I have read over again since it has been some time. How many of them have you read? I challenge you to read them as well.  I’ve even set-up a group at LibraryThing.com where you can connect with others who are doing the same thing.

Here is the list followed by the number of times it appeared in the above lists. How many have you read?

  1. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald (6)
  2. ULYSSES by James Joyce (6)
  3. 1984 by George Orwell (6)
  4. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger (6)
  5. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac (6)
  6. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck (5)
  7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller (5)
  8. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov (5)
  9. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley (5)
  10. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh (5)
  11. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner (4)
  12. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (4)
  13. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien (4)
  14. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce (4)
  15. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (4)
  16. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf (4)
  17. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison (4)
  18. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess (4)
  19. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell (4)
  20. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner (4)
  21. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway (4)
  22. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster (4)
  23. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding (4)
  24. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London (4)
  25. DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens (3)
  26. EMMA by Jane Austen (3)
  27. TESS Of The D’URBERVILLES, Thomas Hardy (3)
  28. THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne (3)
  29. WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte (3)
  30. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers (3)
  31. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut (3)
  32. JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte (3)
  33. BELOVED by Toni Morrison (3)
  34. ANNA KAREINA by Leo Tolstoy (3)
  35. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway (3)
  36. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright (3)
  37. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (3)
  38. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad (3)
  39. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad (3)
  40. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry (3)
  41. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford (3)
  42. HERZOG by Saul Bellow (3)
  43. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame (3)
  44. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (3)
  45. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce (3)
  46. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser (3)
  47. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence (3)
  48. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton (3
  49. THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins (3)
  50. THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe (3)
  51. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller (3)
  52. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather (3)
  53. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner (3)
  54. THE MAGUS by John Fowles (3)
  55. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving (2)
  56. DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes (2)
  57. TOM JONES by Henry Fielding (2)
  58. WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy (2)
  59. MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville (2)
  60. MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert (2)
  61. WINNIE THE POOH by A(lan) A(lexander) Milne (2)
  62. GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens (2)
  63. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Feodor Dostoevsky (2)
  64. TRISTAM SHANDY by Laurence Sterne (2)
  65. LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa M. Alcott (2)
  66. VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray (2)
  67. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen (2)
  68. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Marcel Proust (2)
  69. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James (2)
  70. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand (2)
  71. GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon (2)
  72. THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin (1851-1904) (2)
  73. DUNE by Frank Herbert (2)
  74. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute (2)
  75. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll (2)
  76. CLARISSA by Samuel Richardson (2)
  77. THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams (2)
  78. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving (2)
  79. THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas (2)
  80. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Henry James (2)
  81. OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck (2)
  82. ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren (2)
  83. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin (2)
  84. CHARLOTE’S WEB by E. B. White (2)
  85. ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe (2)
  86. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Feodor Dostoevsky (2)
  87. THE STAND by Stephen King (2)
  88. REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier (2)
  89. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves (2)
  90. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster (2)
  91. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2)
  92. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence (2)
  93. BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens (2)
  94. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand (2)
  95. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner (2)
  96. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James (2)
  97. AUSTERLITZ by W. G. Sebald (2)
  98. THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka (2)
  99. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O’Connor (2)
  100. FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley(2)

~ Compiled by Leisa L. Watkins
Successful Reads – Eat for Wisdom and Success, Read a Book

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January 27, 2009:   An update since this was first posted on November 4th, 2007.

Since this list was compiled over a year ago I’ve learned a few things, thanks to my readers, and I’d like to share a few observations of the readers, and mine.

  • First off, this list is naturally biased.  After all the list is complied of lists primarily geared toward time specific English literature.  As of January 27, 2009 I am working on compiling similar lists taking different factors into consideration.
  • This list is a combination of popular voting with literary ranking.  Preciously I wanted to know which books ranked highest on both.
  • I messed up on the title.  I admit it “100 Best Novels of All Time” isn’t the correct title, but I’m going to leave it that way anyway because that’s what it’s know for now.
  • This is focused on novels.  That’s why the Bible isn’t on the list.
  • This isn’t my personal list of the Top 100 Novels of All Time.  It’s a mathematically created listing developed out of pure curiosity.  It’s similar to wanting to see the latest movie that everyone is talking about.  If they are on several top lists I just may at least want to see it and decide for myself.
  • The lists that these were compiled from can change from year to year.  So if may not match your list when you Google it.  Maybe I’ll repost the lists as I had them at the time.  I’ve lost a hard drive since then, but I think I have a back-up.  I hope so.  The one that gets the most questions is Frankenstein.  It had to been at one time of two of the lists to make my listing here.  I do know that it was listed number 10 in Guardian Unlimited and number 92 on the New York Times.  And no I didn’t try to match years up.
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Written by Leisa Watkins on November 4, 2007 and filed under Book Lists

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91 Responses

  1. KellNo Gravatar Says:

    Just wanted to let you know, you’ve got Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell listed twice (once as 1984), so you have 99 books on your list there. Room for one more. :)

    Posted on November 5th, 2007 at 7:01 pm

  2. LeisaNo Gravatar Says:

    Thanks Kell for the good eyes. I’ll have to look on my list and see what book that puts in that spot and correct the list. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

    Posted on November 5th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

  3. SarahNo Gravatar Says:

    wow 26 out of 99 not bad I think. good list but there are so many good books out there, hard to narrow it down to just 100. I could probably come up with a bunch more that also deserve mention

    Posted on November 26th, 2007 at 7:04 am

  4. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Sarah,

    I agree, 26 out of 99 is not bad.

    And with the part about coming up with a bunch more that deserve mention. But since this list is compiled through a mathematical formula applied to several other lists I didn’t even bother with the books I would like to see on there.

    I’m sure my personal top 100 list would look very different.

    Leisa

    Posted on November 26th, 2007 at 7:42 am

  5. TibNo Gravatar Says:

    I believe you’ve got The Awakening by Kate Chopin in there twice as well.

    How long do think it will take you to read all of them?

    Posted on December 13th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

  6. JoeNo Gravatar Says:

    The list is generally very good, but there are a couple of things I noticed that users may find helpful. First, the list is skewed towards novels written since 1900 because four of the lists don’t deal with novels pre-20th century. Also, a couple of these lists are “popular vote” lists, so if you are looking for a literary ranking, this may not be it. this is not discrediting this list, as I said it is good. Just a few observations.

    Posted on December 29th, 2007 at 10:47 am

  7. LeisaNo Gravatar Says:

    Hi Joe,

    Thanks for the insight. I did debate about including the “popular vote” lists and decided to include it because sometimes the critics are out of step with the general public. Often the most popular and well-loved movies are slaughtered by critics. So I decided to go ahead and include them.

    And thanks for the additional insight into the dates. Probably a title of the Best 100 Novels of All Time isn’t as appropriate.

    Leisa

    Posted on December 29th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

  8. Jim BosiljevacNo Gravatar Says:

    Great list! Seems like a really smart way to create and order a comprehensive list. Kind of weeds out the votes with an agenda from the popular lists, and knocks the brilliant but less accessible novels down a few spots. I saw your group on LibraryThing and am tempted, but I only knock 2-3 classics off every year.

    Posted on January 5th, 2008 at 1:31 am

  9. LeisaNo Gravatar Says:

    I know what you mean Jim. It is so rare for me to even get to a novel period. I read constantly but it is usually for business or as part of our homeschooling.

    You can take years and years to read the list. That’s what I plan on doing.

    I just committed to reading 36 novels this year. I can’t believe I actually did that. You can see it in the post titled “2008 Book List – Title Challenge.”

    I did a mix of classics and some lighter reads. I’m still looking for a few suggestions for this year.

    Leisa

    Posted on January 5th, 2008 at 1:39 am

  10. Tom HankonNo Gravatar Says:

    I like this list and think you did a good job putting it together. A lot of the books on the list are long, so it may take me some time, though I plan on taking on the challenge.

    P.S. Just curious…how old are you, Leisa?

    Posted on January 6th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

  11. LeisaNo Gravatar Says:

    Hi Tom

    Thanks!

    The list came about when I noticed there was such a discrepancy between the different lists, but at the same time they had a lot in common. My curiosity got the best of me and I decided to figure it based on averages.

    Anyway, It’s going to take me quite a few years to get through them all. Particularly since I plan on re-reading some of them. Take War and Peace. I haven’t read that since high school and I am 44 years old now.

    It ended up being one of my favorite books read during high school. That and the Lord of the Rings series. I think I’d like to re-read them both.

    I plan on knocking off several of them this year. (See my list titled: 2008 Book List – Title Challenge).

    I’m planning on reading this year:
    Anna Karenina
    Don Quixote
    The Great Gatsby
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    The Scarlet Letter
    Ulysses

    My challenge for this year is one novel for each letter of the alphabet. Plus my usual business and educational reading.

    By the way – if anyone wants to join the challenge my sister and I are offering a book shopping spree. Now would be a good time to know a few of the books off the list.

    Leisa

    Posted on January 7th, 2008 at 1:35 am

  12. Neil Veikaru, AP Literature TeacherNo Gravatar Says:

    I have read what others have been posting on this blog, and they seem to be praising your effort. Unsurprisingly, I shall be doing likewise: Magnificent list!
    I shall recommend this list to my students. My students, the majority being the ambitious type, enjoy reading. Not to brag, but I am one of the most accomplished teachers (literarily) at my high school, and have read a great number of the books on this list. At my school, I am the archetype after which the novice literature teachers model their classes, so if I recommend this list to my students, they will probably recommend it to theirs. Once again, great job! This is a college-worthy list in my opinion.

    Posted on January 9th, 2008 at 1:23 am

  13. Neil Veikaru, AP Literature TeacherNo Gravatar Says:

    P.S. Please don’t hesitate to email me.

    Posted on January 9th, 2008 at 1:25 am

  14. LeisaNo Gravatar Says:

    Neil,

    Thanks so much for visiting and your praise. It is satisfying to know that my efforts are appreciated.

    I originally created the list to generate a long-term reading plan, and to satisfy my natural curiosity. I am so glad it has proven useful to so many people.

    I would love to hear about your work with the list so I will be emailing you.

    Thanks again,

    Leisa

    Posted on January 9th, 2008 at 2:11 am

  15. Shari ThomasNo Gravatar Says:

    You’ll get a head start on “Ulysses” this month by grabbing the free e-book and audio book from your Preferred Customer “Free Downloads”.

    To the rest of y’all… the free monthly downloads are unabridged versions and are drawn from the “Top 100 Classics”.

    Leisa can fill you in on all the details… just ask her.

    Shari

    Posted on January 10th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

  16. LeisaNo Gravatar Says:

    Thanks Shari. Ulysses is on my book “To Do” list for 2008. I haven’t read it since high school.

    I’m anxious to see what other free downloads we get this year.

    Leisa

    Posted on January 10th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

  17. AlanNo Gravatar Says:

    interesting list. I have read 18 of your selections. (The one down side I am finding to blogging about a new book Every single day is that I have much less time to read and I don’t finish a lot of books. Today I did finish Orson Scott Cards War Of Gifts which was Wonderful.)

    Posted on January 11th, 2008 at 5:41 am

  18. peterahonNo Gravatar Says:

    I’ve read 21 from the list. But there were authors whom I’ve read whose book was not listed.

    I always find a list incomplete and consider not accurate whenever my favorite author does not appear. Herman Hesse indeed is a great author who I believe should always appear in any listings. That is my personal bias and I believe most readers would agree to that. I am into classics and definitely have all these authors in my wish list. Check out also the list of Nobel Literature Laureate since those awarded I consider great writers. Of course there are lots of other good writers undiscovered or not on the lists of lists or been awarded yet they are good. Asian writers mostly untranslated works are yet to be discovered.

    Posted on January 15th, 2008 at 12:11 am

  19. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Peter,

    Thanks for contributing to the conversation. I agree. The list is missing many great books, and many great authors.

    Some of my favorite books are not on here either, but this isn’t my personal list. It is a list averaged from what seems to be the most popular book lists.

    Currently Oprah’s book lists are proving to be the most popular, but since her focus was on more recent books for quite some time the books she chose wouldn’t have even been on any of the others lists. So they would have had only one vote anyway and not made the list.

    True, I could have added book list after book list into my mathematical equation but I felt that these six listings represented a good mix between the average persons choice and the critics choices. It does not include all time periods so in hind site I would have named it something other than the “Top 100 Novels of All Time.”

    I’m curious, who is your favorite authors?

    Leisa

    Posted on January 15th, 2008 at 8:33 am

  20. VivienneNo Gravatar Says:

    Leisa, this is a great list and I am up for the reading challenge! I have only read about one-third of the list. I’m especially happy to see #78 posted as Owen Meany is one of my all-time favorite characters. In fact, I have a link list on my blog of favorite characters and I get the most questions about Owen Meany. Who’s that? they say. Ah!…A must read. I appreciate the logic behind your choices, too, and the form is quite cool. Thank you.

    Posted on January 16th, 2008 at 12:33 am

  21. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Thanks Vivienne! I haven’t yet read A Prayer for Owen Meany. I’m going to have to add that to my read sooner rather than later list.

    I had duplicates of some of the books earlier on and I just realized I haven’t updated the form. I’ll have to do that in the next couple of days so please check back and print one out again.

    Leisa

    Posted on January 16th, 2008 at 7:23 am

  22. bloggernoobNo Gravatar Says:

    great list, great books. noticed a lot of them have been turned into movies. im a sucker for rich guy romances. great gatsby and pride and prejudice are two of my fav. when i was forced to read them in highschool, i discovered something. i discovered how great books are.

    Posted on January 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 am

  23. Beautiful MindsNo Gravatar Says:

    My oh my.. that was beautiful. I have around 5 of the books listed here as paper back edition(was reading when i commute, and i like catch 22) and another seven as digital edition.

    Any way that is a nice list

    Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am

  24. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Bloggernoob,

    Thanks for stopping by. I also enjoyed The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice as movies. I thought they did a pretty good job on the most recent Pride and Prejudice. Remakes always make me nervous, but I enjoyed it.

    Leisa

    Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 9:46 am

  25. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Beautiful minds,

    I’m glad you enjoyed the list. I love reading a book, but do enjoy listening to them on tape when doing housework, or in the car. I just got the Illiad, through BookWise, as an audio and will listen to it , as well as read it again next month. That is one that I feel that listening to and reading it will really help me understand it better. I haven’t read it since high school, but remember being a little confused when I read it then.

    By the way, if will If anyone would like to receive the Illiad as free ebook and audio book it is available as a download for the remainder of the month (February 2008) to anyone registered as a preferred customer in our bookstore. This month you don’t need to make a purchase, simply register and then log-in as a customer get your downloads. http://bookstore.creativevisionbooks.com.

    Leisa

    Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 9:55 am

  26. James A. RitchieNo Gravatar Says:

    There is no such critter as the one hundred best novels of all time. There are only a thousand or so novels that everyone should read over the course of a lifetime, and all of them are number one. Trust me, there are easily another nine hundred novels every bit as good, or better, than any novel on your list. So read them all, but for heaven’s sake do not list them as one, two, three, etc. Anyone who does this is dead wrong, no matter what order they list the novels.

    Such rankings are no more the personal preference. Read this hundred, every last one is worth the time, and then move on to the next one hundred.

    Posted on February 11th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

  27. LeisaNo Gravatar Says:

    James,

    Thanks for stopping by and contributing to the conversation. I couldn’t agree more. There are many more books worth the time.

    So this list may be “Dead Wrong” in your eyes, but may I remind you that the entire point of this was to take the opinions of several groups of people and mathematically rank the books according to what they thought were the best books of all time. It is a compilation of the various lists. Lists compiled by both popular vote and literary experts.

    It isn’t me ranking this as number one and this as number two. In fact, there are books on this list that I don’t care for. There are books on this list that would not appear on my personal 100 list. I just thought it would be interesting to find out what other people thought were the best books and then set-out to at least read them. But I have many other books I plan to read as well.

    Perhaps this list will prove to be a great starting point for others.

    Leisa

    Posted on February 12th, 2008 at 11:27 am

  28. MeganNo Gravatar Says:

    Hi!

    Quick question for you with regards to your list. How come the pdf that is provided is different then your list?

    Just wondering which on to go by!

    Thanks so much!

    Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 7:21 am

  29. Brock RhodesNo Gravatar Says:

    Leisa,

    Nice effort with the list. You saved me from doing it. Joe is right about what he said about the bias, which I think is also towards English language novels. Generally, I think the more lists the better & I’d like to see this list evolve as similar lists come out. I also agree with James, as anyone would, except for the assumption that novels are inherently worth the effort. We’ll see. We’ll see.

    I’ve already read 14 of these novels, which is strange since I’m philosophically against reading fiction. I feel that 4 of them were worth it.

    I plan on reading a top 100 now, but I have absolutely no interest in Dune or Lord of the Rings (& I’m glad to see Battlefield Earth did not make this particular list). I’m undecided on whether or not to undertake Proust because that it’s over 4000 pages, but a few people I respect love it.

    I was wondering if you could help me out a little bit more. How many original titles you had left over from the list (outside of the top 100)? And I was wondering how many additional titles were on at least 2 of the lists but did not make it onto this one, & what those were? I have to ask you to please add all the novels mentioned in 2 places as an Honorable Mention list if you still have your work files so I can find replacements for the ones I have no interest in. Thank you.

    Keep rockin’

    Brock

    Posted on April 16th, 2008 at 11:18 pm

  30. LeisaNo Gravatar Says:

    Brock,

    Yes, I agree. I’ll have to create new renditions as new listings come up.

    I’ll work on posting a list of those that received at least two votes. It will probably be the middle of next week. I do like the idea of an Honorable Mention List.

    ~ Leisa

    Posted on April 18th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

  31. PeekayNo Gravatar Says:

    This is a great list! I’ve wanted to try to start a top 100 list for a while, and haven’t trusted a lot of the ones floating about the web. Combing several together is great, and its nice to see some books I actually have enjoyed on there!

    As a side note, i’m beginning Catch 22 and have already read 26 of the books on the list. By the time i finish my undergrad i should be done the list. :)

    Wish me luck!

    Posted on April 27th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  32. Joe ZizzaNo Gravatar Says:

    I find these lists interesting, because there are so many books to read that it provides some focus to an attempt to be “well-read”. But I also share James Ritchie’s concern that it is very subjective to rank, for instance, A Clockwork Orange above David Copperfield or Anna Karenina. These books all seem worthy, but the source lists are conservative and traditional, and most (if not all) the writers are dead. And where are the German, French and Italian novels? Great conversation-starter, but let’s not get too hung up on rankings. It potentially inhibits enjoyment of reading. As Mr Ritchie said, read them all, then keep going.

    Posted on June 9th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

  33. SonaNo Gravatar Says:

    I’m going to try and read, read read…..try to read all the ones I haven’t read before. Right now, I’m reading Anna Karenina…the last time was in highschool! It’s taking me AGES…by my bedside like a bible!

    Great job with the list!

    Posted on June 14th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

  34. LeisaNo Gravatar Says:

    Peekay,

    Good luck!!!!

    Joe

    I totally agree. I wouldn’t dream of limiting myself to a list. I think it’s just a great way to come up with a list of some potentially good books to read. And yes, it is limited to a specific time period and genre.

    But according to several lists these books do rate as the “Best Books of All Time,” at least at the time the put together their list. But no doubt their lists will change over time and they were focused on a specific in regions etc.

    Sona,

    I’m reading Anna Karenina myself right now.

    ~ Leisa

    Posted on June 15th, 2008 at 8:49 am

  35. HalehNo Gravatar Says:

    Wow, I’ve read 40 of them. That even surprises me a little, because I’m only 19. Thanks for the list, though! Now I know what I need to catch up on.

    Posted on June 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm

  36. M.No Gravatar Says:

    Wow, I can’t believe I’ve read 21 of these already. As far as my next read from this list…it’s going to be Heart of Darkness. The one I’ll tackle last…is there any doubt…got to be Gravity’s Rainbow.

    Best wishes to all…happy reading!

    Posted on June 24th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

  37. TroyNo Gravatar Says:

    Hello,
    I can only find Anna Karenina on Guradian Unlimited, and I can’t find Frankenstein on any of the link lists above. Am I missing something?

    This list is a great idea anyhow.

    Troy

    Posted on June 26th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

  38. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Troy,

    Each book is not on each of the lists. I took the average ranking of each of the lists. So if two lists rated it a 10 and 3 didn’t even have the book on their list then it would be 10 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 20 divided by by five. Vs. a site that had it ranked as 3 or less than it would rank lower. There was only one book I believe listed on all five of the lists.

    Halen & M

    Wow, you are making quite a dent in the list.

    ~ Leisa

    Posted on June 26th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

  39. Tom EgerNo Gravatar Says:

    I’m a Stephen King fan. Have you read The Stand? If so, what do you think about it?

    Posted on July 4th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

  40. PetayNo Gravatar Says:

    GREAT LIST!!!

    Not to brag, but I was on jeopardy and won two nights, so I think I know something about books. This list is very good, but I think I should help you out by describing one or two faults:

    I am disappointed that there is no L. Ron Hubbard is on the list, most particularly his masterpiece BATTLEFIELD EARTH. I think in general this list suffers from what I would call “being to ivy tower.” While yes, many professors may critically acclaim, that Ulysses is a well written book, I doubt many average americans would like it. Other authers prejudiciously left off this list may include JRR TOLKIEN, TOM CLANCY, AND THE BIBLE. Also, may I point out that a book not written in english is not accesible nor useful to AMERICA and therefore should not be include.

    Thank you and GOD BLESS.

    Posted on July 9th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

  41. ByronNo Gravatar Says:

    Great list.. but no Les Miserables! Dickens got 3 on there, but no love for Victor?

    Posted on July 12th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

  42. sreejithNo Gravatar Says:

    I stumbled across this blog searching for the best fiction to read. I was surprised to see I have read just 8 of these. Thanks for this list.

    Posted on July 29th, 2008 at 9:45 am

  43. marygrimesNo Gravatar Says:

    Great list! I have read 41 and own about 60of the books on your list!!

    Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

  44. RonNo Gravatar Says:

    I think the problem with these list is that so many of the books on there are books that reviewers feel are important as opposed to being great books. For instance, The Trial by Kafka. Interesting as a study piece for pure expressionism, but an excellent read? Hardly.

    Posted on August 6th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

  45. TroyNo Gravatar Says:

    But Frankenstein doesn’t appear on any of the above lists, so wouldn’t its score be 0+0+0+0+0+0=0/6=0?

    Posted on August 9th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

  46. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Troy,

    I checked my spread sheet and it shows Frankenstein was listed number 10 in Guardian Unlimited and number 92 on the New York Times.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction

    Of course the lists change from year to year and are all subject to many various opinions.

    ~ Leisa

    Posted on August 10th, 2008 at 12:52 am

  47. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Byron,

    Yes it is hard to imagine no Les Miserables on this list.

    It was listed as number 90 on Time Magazines list, but not listed in the top 100 books on the others lists at the time I checked. Since it was only listed on one list it was knocked out by some that were included on more than one list.

    ~ Leisa

    Posted on August 10th, 2008 at 12:58 am

  48. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Tom,

    No I haven’t read The Stand. In fact, I haven’t read any of Tom Clancy’s novels yet. Some day after I get my kids raised I plan on reading at least one. Right now it’s generally classics and non-fiction.

    ~ Leisa

    Posted on August 10th, 2008 at 1:01 am

  49. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Petay,

    J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is on the list at number 13. And yes the list is naturally slanted towards older books. I would imagine if this list was done in a couple of years it would be quite different in many ways. Eventually we may find Tom Clancy and Ron Hubbard.

    The Bible many people would not consider to be a work of fiction, thus it isn’t on this list.

    ~ Leisa

    Posted on August 10th, 2008 at 1:08 am

  50. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Wow Mary. Sixty! That is impressive.

    ~ Leisa

    Posted on August 10th, 2008 at 1:12 am

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  52. ArthurNo Gravatar Says:

    Hey Leisa.

    I’ve been searching all over the net for the ultimate reading list and then I stumbled across yours! It’s beautiful and I have linked to it from my new blog. Just finished the Great Gatsby and it was a great read; I have read no book like it.

    Again, thank you for this list.

    Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

  53. Daniel FinolNo Gravatar Says:

    This list is heavily biased towards the English language. (This explains the three Dickens and no Les Miserables, for example) That is because most of the lists are explicitly limited to English language (Time Magazine, Radcliffe and Random House’s two), and one being definitely Anglo-centered (BBC’s). Only the Guardian’s seems to have a more global perspective and is thus less biased (about a quarter of their list is English language).

    This makes the list a little “weird”: it can’t be called “… best English language novels” because it includes non-English novels, but it can’t be said to be “… best novels of the world” either.

    With regards to the comment made earlier about non-English novels not being relevant to America and hence, not to the list; it just reminded me (assuming the knowledgeableness, there-in proclaimed, to be true) that knowledge is quite different from intelligence.

    Aside from that I think it’s a Great Idea to have averaged various lists, thanks and congratulations for it.

    Now, I should be reading one of those books instead of surfing my time away…..

    Daniel

    Posted on August 25th, 2008 at 12:27 am

  54. JennNo Gravatar Says:

    I had been looking for a ‘comprehensive’ list of the must reads of all time. Despite some of the mild criticism of this list, I like the way it was compiled, and have seen most of these books at some point on the other lists I examined. I have decided to work off of this list myself in my personal goal to read the ‘best’ books of all time (although will later supplement this list since it is a bit skewed towards later authors). I have read 16 out of the 100 (its seems the duplication on the list has been fixed), and I’m going to try to read 6 ‘classics’ per year until I’m done the list…thats a good attempt for me b/c I enjoy reading a huge variety of books, and have a pile of other books to wade through as well.

    Posted on September 18th, 2008 at 2:32 am

  55. Chris BernardiNo Gravatar Says:

    Hey, thanks for posting this. I am a sophomore in highschool and I

    can’t think of anything to read. I have read a few books on this list,

    but I printed it out so everytime I go on Half.com or the library I can

    look for these books down the row. Thank you so much.

    -Chris

    Posted on September 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

  56. MrsJulyNo Gravatar Says:

    I’ve only read 18 of the books (but I DID read THE STAND when I was 16!), and there are quite a few I was SUPPOSED to read but faked my way through the essays instead. I’m working on LORD OF THE RINGS right now. I think I’m going to work on reading all the books from the Time Magazine list…and work on watching the top 100 movies of all time, as well. Unfortunately, I like to read kids’ books and popular fiction as well, so it’s going to be a real struggle to get through the list!

    Posted on September 26th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

  57. Greg SandersNo Gravatar Says:

    I would like to give a good review, but I have to be frank with you: This list is slanted toward 20th century novels. Check out your sources. Both of the Random House lists, The Time Magazine List, and the Radcliffe List only include 20th century novels. AND the BBC list isn’t a list of the greatest novels, it is a list of Britain’s favorite novels. So the only list that is actually lists the Best Books of All Time is the Guardian Unlimited list.

    Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

  58. MelissaNo Gravatar Says:

    Thank you for the list! I like the ranking method you’ve used. I understand the complaints made by some of the others, however it is impossible to compile a list that would suit everyone, and for what it’s worth, I think you’ve done a fine job.

    I have only read 8 of the books on this list, and am halfway through Anna Karenina and more than halfway through One Hundred Years of Solitude. I look forward to reading the others, and I have shared your list on my website!

    Posted on October 9th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

  59. Dave ButlerNo Gravatar Says:

    This is a fun idea, but three out of the six lists you’ve chosen are only counting books from the 20th century, not of all time, so this list is very biased towards 20th century works. In addition, I think that the Time list, and maybe others, were only including English language books, which makes this list biased towards English language books.
    For what it’s worth, I’ve done something similar, but using more lists, and only lists which include books from all periods, rather than just the 20th century, and this is the top ten:

    1) Wuthering Heights Bronte
    2) The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald
    3) War and Peace Tolstoy
    4) Ulysses Joyce
    5) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain
    6) Pride and Prejudice Austen
    7) Anna Karenina Tolstoy
    8) One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez
    9) Moby Dick Melville
    10) Don Quixote Cervantes

    Posted on October 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

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  61. bruceNo Gravatar Says:

    I am interested in the factors that move someone to find a book “one of the best”. Is it the nature of the plot, the descriptive narative, the emotions elicited, the philosophical questions probed. I would say that many of the novels that are sited frequently and used for teaching are often strong on all of the various aspects except a compelling storyline. Many are therefore difficult to trudge through. Maybe there should be a list for “important” and another for “favorite”. “Best” seems more difficult to define or defend.

    Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 am

  62. MarkNo Gravatar Says:

    Nice list. I just wanted to point out that in the Time magazine list, the books were simply listed alphabetically, not ranked.

    Posted on December 3rd, 2008 at 7:14 am

  63. MarkNo Gravatar Says:

    In my previous comment I was refering to the Guardian Unlimited link at the top of this page. Later on in the discussion I noticed there is a correct link to The Observer list.

    Posted on December 4th, 2008 at 2:56 am

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  65. ChrisNo Gravatar Says:

    Awesome list Leisa! Like many others have mentioned I am constantly looking for a good list of the so-called greatest novels of all time, and you have provided a great list as well as the links to other great lists. Your site is now in my favourites and I won’t have to google best books anymore! Sadly though Ive only read about 10 on the list, but I have definite plans to get to the rest.
    Thanks again, I’m really happy I stumbled across your list.

    Chris

    Posted on December 7th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

  66. CharlesNo Gravatar Says:

    Hi Leisa. I was recently looking for a “top fiction” list and came across yours; this site has been a great reference source. I hope the list evolves over time with modifications and updates based on the feedback from others drawn here and the availability of additional and/or revised “all time best” lists. Thanks for putting this site together. Charles

    Posted on December 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

  67. TimNo Gravatar Says:

    I don’t know if anyone else mentioned this but several of your rankings only include English-language lovels; meaning, your overall rankings are skewed toward novels written in English.

    Posted on December 31st, 2008 at 2:28 pm

  68. Mark McDonaldNo Gravatar Says:

    Leisa, Nice list! Hard to argue since you used a formula. You might want to check out the list put out by the Easton Press. It included more pre-1900 novels and it would help balance your list out to include classics like Hamlet, Dracula and The Iliad. I would also like to see whats bubbling under the top 100. I’m sure novels by Salman Rushdie, Graham Green, Samuel Butler, and Tom Wolfe arn’t far behind. Norman Mailer and W. Somerset Maugham too. I’ve read 19 of the books on the list but own most of them and plan to read them all. Keep up the good work Leisa!

    Posted on December 31st, 2008 at 3:03 pm

  69. KristenNo Gravatar Says:

    Thank you for compiling this list Leisa. I decided that I wanted to read Les Miserables and Vanity Fair to start of the New Year and then wondered what other classic works would be good to add to my list. I like the way that you created yours. I have read 20 on your list (so far).

    Posted on January 10th, 2009 at 6:51 am

  70. Ciana LeahNo Gravatar Says:

    you must must must read the twilight saga by stephenie meyer. most amazing book i’ve ever read, and i’ve read many on this list…NUMBER ONE!

    Posted on January 24th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

  71. LivyNo Gravatar Says:

    Really, Ciana? I highly, highly disagree that the Twilight books are on the same level as books like 1984 and Lolita. And I’ve read the first one, so don’t think I’m just writing it off as a fad.

    Personal opinion: the Twilight saga is compulsively readable, occasionally interesting, and for the most part *nauseating*. When I heard about the ending of the 4th book, I threw up a little in my mouth and swore never to go near that series again.

    As for this list, I’m at 42/100, but now I swear on my dead-and-buried New Year’s resolutions that I’m FINALLY going to get to War and Peace.

    Maybe you can add graphic novels too. Maus is definitely literary enough.

    Posted on February 7th, 2009 at 6:58 am

  72. masduqiNo Gravatar Says:

    thank you for your list.
    maybe I can read part of them…!

    Posted on February 7th, 2009 at 2:52 pm

  73. Mark McDonaldNo Gravatar Says:

    I made a similar list using only real all time lists. Heres the top 60! If you want to see the whole thing Ive posted it on Facebook. Look me up!
    1. Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes (1605)

    2. War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy (1869)
    3. Ulysses- James Joyce (1922)
    4. The Brothers Karamazov- Feodor Dostovsky (1880)
    5. Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy (1877)
    6. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte (1847)
    7. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen (1813)
    8. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
    9. Moby Dick- Herman Melville (1851)
    10. Tom Jones- Henry Fielding (1744)
    11. Great Expectations- Charles Dickens (1861)
    12. 1984- George Orwell (1949)
    13. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger (1951)
    14. Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert (1857)
    15. Crime and Punishment- Feodor Dostoevsky (1866)
    16. To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf (1927)
    17. Emma- Jane Austen (1816)
    18. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
    19. Middlemarch- George Eliot (1872)
    20. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- James Joyce (1916)
    21. On the Road- Jack Kerouac (1957)
    22. Tristan Shandy- Laurence Sterne (1767)
    23. In Search of Lost Time- Marcel Proust (1927)
    24. The Portrait of a Lady- Henry James (1881)
    25. David Copperfield- Charles Dickens (1850)
    26. A Passage to India- E.M. Forster (1924)
    27. Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison (1952)
    28. Vanity Fair- William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
    29. The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner (1929)
    30. Tess of the D’urbervilles- Tomas Hardy (1891)
    31. To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee (1960)
    32. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway (1929)
    33. The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
    34. As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner (1930)
    35. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde (1891)
    36. Nostromo- Joseph Conrad (1904)
    37. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte (1847)
    38. Frankenstein- Mary Shelley (1818)
    39. Beloved- Toni Morrison (1987)
    40. Native Son- Richard Wright (1940)
    41. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
    42. Brave New World- Aldous Huxley (1932)
    43. Lord of the Flies- William Golding (1954)
    44. The Call of the Wild- Jack London (1903)
    45. The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck (1939)
    46. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford (1915)
    47. Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe (1790)
    48. Women in Love- D.H. Lawrence (1920)
    49. Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe (1958)
    50. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain (1884)
    51. The Sun Also Rises- Ernest hemingway (1926)
    52. Brideshed Revisited- Evelyn Waugh (1945)
    53. Herzog- Saul Bellow (1964)
    54. Catch-22- Joseph Heller (1961)
    55. The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas (1844)
    56. The Awakening- Kate Chopin (1899)
    57. The Ambassadors- Henry James (1903)
    58. USA (Trilogy)- John Dos Passos (1938)
    59. The Trial- Franz Kafka (1925)
    60. Les Miserables- Victor Hugo (1862)

    Posted on March 9th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

  74. ChrisNo Gravatar Says:

    How about incorperating best100novels.com list? It’s apparently always changing based on input … but a pretty interesting list.

    Posted on March 17th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

  75. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Thanks for the suggestion Chris. I appreciate it.

    Posted on March 25th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

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  78. William KleinNo Gravatar Says:

    Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” One of America’s three greatest novels, absent from first list, and ranked only 50 on second list. Inexcusable!

    Posted on May 9th, 2009 at 10:33 pm

  79. jamesNo Gravatar Says:

    good one

    Posted on May 11th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

  80. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    I did enjoy Huckleberry Finn. You’re right there are many great books missing from this list.

    Posted on May 11th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

  81. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Thanks James.

    Posted on May 11th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

  82. Doug JohnsonNo Gravatar Says:

    Thank you for publishing this information. I am addicted to reading, and read a book every four days on the average. I just started book #50 for this year, “Pride and Prejudice.” Of your list, I have read 42 of them. You say that you receive most comments about “Frankenstein.” What are the comments? They must be from those who haven’t read that wonderful novel. It would definitely be in my list of the 20 best.

    Posted on July 8th, 2009 at 3:33 am

  83. Jenney MAc - UreTima EditorNo Gravatar Says:

    i think ULYSSES by James Joyce is better than THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 8:59 am

  84. R. KalichNo Gravatar Says:

    The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
    It should be included with such novels as Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, and the Magic Mountain

    also suggest: Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo

    Preferred Mrs. Dalloway to To the Lighthouse

    Posted on July 30th, 2009 at 11:23 pm

  85. aminNo Gravatar Says:

    Hi
    Thank you for your comprehensive list.Even though I have only read 12 of these,for sure this list will be a great help for me in future.

    Posted on August 12th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

  86. Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar Says:

    Hi Jenney,

    I was surprised at how high The Great Gatsby ranked on the versious lists. But Ulysses was well ranked as well. It’s been years since I read The Great Gatsby and I haven’t yet read Ulysses so I can’t make a judgement call yet.

    ~ Leisa

    Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 10:04 pm

  87. JimNo Gravatar Says:

    I didn’t see any titles by Halldor Laxness, the Icelandic Nobel Laureate, on your list. Read World Light or Independent People. I have read many of the authors on your list and can tell you that Laxness takes a back seat to none of them.

    Posted on August 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

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  90. DannaNo Gravatar Says:

    Just wanted to thank you for your list, I am planning on working my way through it in no certain order.

    You can follow my journey at
    dannaswords.blogstop.com

    Posted on September 24th, 2009 at 7:02 pm

  91. JazzieNo Gravatar Says:

    I love 20 out the hundred, but i must say : Lucas by Kevin Brooks needs to be somewhere on that list as well as White Oleander by Janet Fitch.
    But that is just my opinion other wise, very well done.

    Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 6:30 am

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