101 - 200 Greatest Novels of All Time

In wrapping up novels 101 – 200 I should point out a distinction between the first 100, which were all classics, and the second 100, which included some contemporary novels which cannot yet be considered classics – though they may still be considered “great”.

 

This post is rather longish, but if you just want to see the list...it's at the end, with hyperlinks to each individual review.

 

I began the second century of my quest on July 1, 2018 and completed it June 30, 2022 or four years to the day from the first page of Gadsby * to the last page of The Princess Bride. The longest amount of time I spent on one book was 75 days for The Tale of Genji; the shortest was a few hours to read The Little Prince. The average was 15 days per novel.

* not to be confused with The Great Gatsby, which coincidentally was the first novel of 1 - 100.

 

The longest book was The Tale of Genji with 1182 pages. The shortest was The Little Prince at 93. The total page count was 34,102, or an average of 341 pages.

 

The oldest book was The Tale of Genji, which some call the World’s First Novel, probably written very early 11^th century. There were two novels from the 16^th Century, three from the 18^th, 30 from the 19^th, 60 from the 20^th, and four from the 21^st century. The average year of publication was 1907.

 

There were eight novels by Charles Dickens, four by Arthur Conan Doyle, and two each by A.A. Milne, Iris Murdoch, Lewis Carrol, Ray Bradbury, and Truman Capote. There were also two completely different novels of the same title: Greenmantle and...of course Greenmantle by James Buchan and Charles de Lint.

 

I intended to show my trophy case here: bookcases in my home office with all 200 hardcover books, but I’ve moved recently, and most of my books are in storage ***sigh*** I miss them.

 

A few of my prized copies: I have a first-edition of The Little Prince. My edition of Ender’s Game is autographed by Orson Scott Card and my edition of Devil in a Blue Dress is autographed by Walter Mosley.

 

Covers: These do not all represent the version I read, but rather covers that I find emblematic of the story.

 

 

 

Ratings are not commentary on the “Greatness” of these works, rather they reflect my personal enjoyment of the read – very opinionated. Secondly, in order to differentiate amongst a group that are all considered “Great”, I set the bar very high for 5 or even 4 stars. 3.5 is above the median; still a good rating. If you plot my ratings on a graph, the result is a fairly standard bell curve, which suggests consistency in rating.

 

Average Rating: 3.8 stars

 

A few distinctions:

 

Top 10 Favorites

A Tale of Two Cities

The Little Prince

Watership Down

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Bleak House

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Of Mice and Men

The Old Man and the Sea

The Man Who was Thursday

Fahrenheit 451

 

Top 10 Dislikes

The Recognitions

Portnoy’s Complaint

The Tale of Genji

Journey to the End of the Night

Monkey: Journey to the West

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

The House on the Borderland

Phantastes

The Collector

 

Best Subtitles/Alternate Titles:

Gadsby: 50,000 Word Novel Without the Letter “E”

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

The Oak Openings or The Bee Hunter

The Monkey King’s Amazing Adventures: Journey to the West

Oliver Twist or The Beggar Boy’s Progress

The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The "Good Parts" Version Abridged by William Goldman

 

Most Unusual:

Gadsby

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

The Princess Bride

 

Most Surprising:

The Man Who was Thursday

 

Most Underappreciated:

The Oak Openings

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

 

Most Overrated:

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Papillon

Candide

 

Happiest Ending:

Bleak House

Oliver Twist

 

Saddest Ending (in a good way):

A Tale of Two Cities

The Little Prince

The Cellist of Sarajevo

 

Saddest Ending (in a just plain ole sad way):

The Collector

 

Most Unexpected Ending:

The Man Who was Thursday

 

Most Satisfying Ending:

A Tale of Two Cities

The Oak Openings

Oliver Twist

 

Least Satisfying Ending:

The Collector

 

Favorite Hero:

Sydney Carton – A Tale of Two Cities

Hazel – Watership Down

Tom Sawyer – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Parson Amen – The Oak Openings

Dr. Watson – The Sign of the Four

Tom – Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Pooh – Winnie the Pooh

Easy Rawlins – Devil in a Blue Dress

 

Favorite Heroine:

Arrow – The Cellist of Sarajevo

Dorothea – Middlemarch

Esther – Bleak House

Mina Harker – Dracula

Eliza – Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Molly – Wives and Daughters

 

Best Villain:

Frederick Clegg – The Collector

General Woundwort – Watership Down

Perry Smith – In Cold Blood

Count Dracula – Dracula

Other Mother – Coraline

Manfred – The Castle of Otranto

Simon Legree – Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Ratman – Ratman’s Notebooks

Fagin – Oliver Twist

The Six-Fingered Man – The Princess Bride

 

Most Interesting/Complex Characters:

Sunday – The Man Who was Thursday

The Little Prince – The Little Prince

Mike the computer – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Onoah – The Oak Openings

Charles Arrowby – The Sea, the Sea

Jake Donaghue – Under the Net

Moses Herzog – Herzog

Papillon – Papillon

Saleem Sinai – Midnight’s Children

Inigo Montoya – The Princess Bride

 

Favorite Quotations:

…the time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right. ~ Uncle Jack from Go Set a Watchman

 

…she is, at once, sure of two things. The first is that she does not want to kill this man, and the second is that she must. ~ narrative regarding Arrow, from The Cellist of Sarajevo

 

“Adventures are all very well in their place”, he thought, “but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.” ~ Tristran Thorn

 

Best Film Renditions:

The Princess Bride (1987) – Just about perfect: perfectly written, cast, and acted. And although this part is not part of the book, at the end, when Peter Falk’s character says “as you wish” to his grandson played by Fred Savage…it just about kills me (in a good way).

 

Honorable mentions:

Of Mice and Men (1939)

Watership Down (2018 TV miniseries)

Bleak House (2005 TV miniseries)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

 

Worst Film Renditions:

I want to say Breakfast at Tiffanys because it is not true to the book, Audrey Hepburn does not match the description of Holly Golightly, and there is terrible casting and offensive portrayal of a Japanese person, but if you just accept the film is not the book and ignore the Japanese portrayal, the film is iconic. Hepburn makes the film and the role her own.

 

So, my genuine answer for Worst Film Rendition is Ender’s Game. Though 90 percent of the film is pretty OK. It completely blows the all-important big reveal near the end.

 

Now what? 201-300 of course. I read other forms of literature, but predominantly novels. My TBR of novels alone is over 2,000 titles. I might even occasionally read something not on any of my lists, which could inspire a new list. I love lists. By the way a lover of lists is an albumiphile – a term I created. You read it here first (unless you first read it on my recap of the first 100 novels)

 

Quite obviously, I won’t finish my TBR in this lifetime. I have no idea what the Heavenly library is like, so I make no promise for the next. There are a few authors I hope to talk to though.

 

And finally...here are the 101 thru 200 Greatest Novels of all Time (hyperlinked to individual reviews)

 

101     Gadsby

102     The Pickwick Papers

103     The Little Prince

104     The Man Who Was Thursday

105     Of Mice and Men

106     Three Men in a Boat

107     A Tale of Two Cities

108     Breakfast at Tiffany's

109     The Old Curiosity Shop

110     Middlemarch

111     The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

112     The Invisible Man

113     The Idiot

114     Dream of the Red Chamber

115     A Study in Scarlet

116     The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

117     The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

118     An Antarctic Mystery (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields)

119     Watership Down

120     Bleak House

121     The Ox-Bow Incident

122     Wise Blood

123     Papillon

124     Candide

125     In Cold Blood

126     The Old Man and the Sea

127     The Valley of Fear

128     Gargantua and Pantagruel

129     The Shadow Over Innsmouth

130     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

131     Picnic at Hanging Rock

132     The Oak Openings

133     The Day of the Triffids

134     Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

135     Through the Looking Glass

136     Coraline

137     A Christmas Carol

138     Dracula

139     The Universal Baseball Association

140     Lost Horizon

141     Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance

142     If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

143     Riders of the Purple Sage

144     Jude the Obscure

145     The Sea, The Sea

146     At Swim Two-Birds

147     Fahrenheit 451

148     The Sign of the Four

149     Phantastes

150     The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story

151     The Tale of Genji

152     The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

153     Cry, the Beloved Country

154     Nicholas Nickleby

155     The Stranger

156     Ragtime

157     Where the Red Fern Grows

158     Something Wicked This Way Comes

159     The House on the Borderland

160     The Hound of the Baskervilles

161     Wide Sargasso Sea

162     Under the Net

163     Greenmantle

164     Greenmantle

165     Jonathan Livingston Seagull

166     Winnie the Pooh

167     The House at Pooh Corner

168     Germinal

169     Big Trouble

170     Uncle Tom’s Cabin

171     Wives and Daughters

172     The Country of the Pointed Firs

173     Herzog

174     Ratman’s Notebooks

175     Journey to the West

176     Devil in a Blue Dress

177     Sybil; or, The Two Nations

178     Journey to the End of the Night

179     Hard Times

180     The Golden Compass

181     The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

182     Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

183     The Loved One

184     Murder on the Orient Express

185     The Corrections

186     The Worm Ouroboros

187     Rebecca

188     The Collector

189     The Haunting of Hill House

190     At Play in the Fields of the Lord

191     Ender’s Game

192     The Cellist of Sarajevo

193     The Recognitions

194     Go Set a Watchman

195     Stardust

196     The Death of the Heart

197     Portnoy’s Complaint

198     Midnight’s Children

199     Oliver Twist

200     The Princess Bride

 

Wrap-up of Novels 1 – 100 HERE

 

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The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time Wrap-Up Post (Quest is Complete)

A week ago I completed my Quest to read the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time. Of course, no one can say with authority what the 100 Greatest Novels are because there is no official keeper of literature. Any Greatest Novels list is subjective. If you want to know how I came up with my list, click the hyperlink above. If you want to see The List, it is at the very end of this post, with hyperlinks to each review.

I began this quest on August 16, 2011 and completed it June 30, 2018, meaning it took me 2510 days from the first page of The Great Gatsby, to the last page of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The longest amount of time I spent on one book was 140 days for Ulysses; the shortest was a few hours to read The Call of the Wild, and the average was 23 days per novel.

The longest book was Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes this as the world’s longest novel, based on character count, with over 9.6 million characters. My version was 3365 pages. The shortest novel, by page count, was The Call of the Wild at 84. The combined page count of all 100 novels was 55,582 pages, or an average of 555 pages.

The oldest book was Don Quixote, published in 1620, which was the only one from the 17^th Century. There were two from the 18^th, 23 from the 19^th, and 73 from the 20^th Centuries. The most contemporary, and only novel published in the 21^st century, was Atonement, though it felt older as it was set in early 20^th Century. The average year of publication was 1917.

William Faulkner and Henry James each had four novels. There were 11 authors with two:  Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, George Orwell, Ayn Rand, Leo Tolstoy, Evelyn Waugh, and Virginia Woolf. These 13 authors accounted for 30% of the list. Although he did not have the most novels, George Orwell has perhaps the greatest distinction with two novels in the Top Seven.

There were 11 authors who worked in intelligence. I mention this, because that is my career field and I hope to follow their career path to author one day. The authors with roots in intelligence are: W. Somerset Maugham (British WWI); Muriel Spark, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Anthony Burgess, and Anthony Powell (British WWII); Kurt Vonnegut, J.D. Salinger, and Thornton Wilder (U.S. WWII); Ernest Hemingway (unproven, Russia WWII), and John Steinbeck (unproven, U.S. Cold War).

My trophy case: Pictured here are the 100 Greatest Novels. I read mostly from  ebooks, but I have a hardcover tree book for all 100. Some used some new. (six shelves on the left, plus the top shelf on the right)

A few of my prized copies – Les Misérables (1938, 2-volume, illustrated Heritage Press), Tom Jones (1973 Folio Society), and Deliverance(1981, leather bound, limited edition, Franklin Library – autographed by James Dickey) 

Covers: These do not always represent the version I read, but rather covers that I thought were emblematic of the story.

Ratings: Upon completing this quest, I went back and changed a few of my early ratings. I was a bit unfair to some early reads as I didn’t have a broad base for comparison. Still, there were only four that I changed:  Ulysses from 1.5 to 2.5 stars, On the Road from 1.5 to 2 stars, and The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye from 3 to 3.5 stars.

Regarding these ratings, they are NOT commentary on the “Greatness” of these works, rather they simply reflect my personal enjoyment of the read – very opinionated. Secondly, in order to differentiate amongst a group that are all considered “Great”, I set the bar VERY HIGH for 5 or even 4 stars. 3.5 is above the median, so still a good rating. If you plot my ratings on a graph, the result is a fairly standard bell curve, which suggests consistent rating.

Average Rating: 3.7 stars

And now a few distinctions:

Top 10 Favorites (in order, starting with #1 most favored):

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Lord of the Rings

Gone With the Wind

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Chronicles of Narnia

Lord of the Flies

The Grapes of Wrath

David Copperfield

Atlas Shrugged

The Stand

Deliverance

Top 10 Dislikes (in order, starting with #1 most disliked)

Remembrance of Things Past

On the Road

Money

The Ambassadors

The Golden Bowl

The Good Soldier

Ulysses

The Sun Also Rises

To the Lighthouse

The Wings of the Dove

Best Subtitles:

Blood Meridian: The Evening Redness in the West

Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus

Most Unusual:

Pale Fire – a very novel novel. Metafiction, experimental fiction, poetry as part of prose fiction. All very unusual – a bit challenging, but still enjoyable.

The Trial – just very bizarre

Most Surprising:

One Hundred Years of Solitude – read it

Most Underappreciated:

Invisible Man – ought to be required reading

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – beautiful and powerful

Most Overrated:

On the Road – ugh!

Happiest Ending:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Saddest Ending (in a good way):

Les Misérables

Saddest Ending (in a just plain ole sad way):

Blood Meridian

Most Unexpected Ending:

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Most Satisfying Ending:

Jane Eyre

Vanity Fair

Least Satisfying Ending:

A Clockwork Orange – but only the post 1986 editions, with the “additional chapter” that Burgess preferred. Not me!

Favorite Hero:

Jean Valjean (Les Misérables)

William Dobbin (Vanity Fair)

Nick Andros (The Stand)

Reepicheep (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Favorite Heroine:

Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)

Marmee (Little Women)

Dagny Taggert (Atlas Shrugged)

Scarlett O’Hara (Gone With the Wind)

Scout Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Ma Joad (The Grapes of Wrath)

Lady Jessica Atreides (Dune)

Denver (Beloved)

Mary Bakonskaya (War and Peace)

Mother Abagail (The Stand)

Best (as in worst) Villain:

Caligula (I, Claudius)

The Judge (Blood Meridian)

Randall Flagg (The Stand)

Danglars (The Count of Monte Cristo)

The Man (The Grapes of Wrath)

Sauron (The Lord of the Rings)

Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

Uriah Heep (David Copperfield)

Roger Chillingsworth (The Scarlet Letter)

Madame and Monsieur Thenardier (Les Misérables)

White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Most Interesting/Complex Characters:

Francisco d’Anconia (Atlas Shrugged)

Becky Sharp (Vanity Fair)

Starbuck (Moby Dick)

Edmonde Dantes/The Count (The Count of Monte Cristo)

Jack Burden (All the King’s Men)

Ralph (Lord of the Flies)

The unnamed main character (Invisible Man)

Alyosha (The Brothers Karamazov)

Sarah/Tragedy (The French Lieutenant’s Woman)

Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter)

Pearl (The Scarlet Letter)

Count Pierre Buzukhov (War and Peace)

Bigger Thomas (Native Son)

Favorite Quotations:

A World is supported by four things…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.~ Dune

Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not.~ John Galt – Atlas Shrugged

And this you can know—fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.- Narrative - The Grapes of Wrath

…for the wicked are not so easily disposed of, for God seems to have them under his special watch-care to make of them instruments of his vengeance.  ~ The Count of Monte Cristo

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.~ Atticus Finch – To Kill a Mockingbird

They aim at justice, but denying Christ, they will end by flooding the earth with blood.~ Father Zosima – The Brothers Karamazov

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.~ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Mrs. Poulteney believed in a God that had never existed; and Sarah knew a God that did. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman

All he did was smile and say, “Take care of yourself, Denver.” But she heard it as though it were what language was made for.~ Beloved

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.~ Opening line from One-Hundred Years of Solitude.

I chuckled over it from time to time for the whole rest of the day. Because it does look very funny, you know, to see a black and white cow land on its back in the middle of a stream. It is so just exactly what one doesn’t expect of a cow.~ John Dowell – The Good Soldier

Best Film Renditions:

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Beloved (1998)

Deliverance (1972)

Worst Film Renditions:

Animal Farm (several renditions, none of them good)

Atlas Shrugged (2011-2014)

Lord of the Flies (several renditions, none of them good)

Now what? I will continue reading and blogging, but I’ll expand to other categories of literature. I have TBR lists for: Short Stories; Plays; Epic Poems; Poetry; Tales, Myths, and Legends; Graphic Novels; Tolkien; Shakespeare; Sherlock Holmes, and Biographies, as well as over 1200 more novels. I might even occasionally read something not on any of these lists which could inspire me to create a new list. I love lists. By the way a lover of lists is an albumiphile – a term I created. You read it here first.

Quite obviously, I won’t finish my TBR in this lifetime. I have no idea what the Heavenly library is like, so I make no promise for the next. There are a few authors I hope to talk to though. 

And finally...here are the 100 Novels (reviews in orange hyperlink)

1. The Great Gatsby     by F. Scott Fitzgerald  (1925)

2. Nineteen Eighty-Four     by George Orwell (1948)

3. The Catcher in the Rye     by J. D. Salinger (1951)

4. On the Road     by Jack Kerouac (1957)

5. Ulysses     by James Joyce (1922)

6. Catch-22     by Joseph Heller (1961)

7. Animal Farm     by George Orwell (1946)

8. The Grapes of Wrath     by John Steinbeck (1939)

9. The Sound and the Fury     by William Faulkner (1929)

10. Lord of the Flies     by William Golding (1955)
11. Invisible Man     by Ralph Ellison (1952)

12. The Sun Also Rises     by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

13. To the Lighthouse     by Virginia Woolf (1927)

14. As I Lay Dying     by William Faulkner (1930)

15. Brave New World     by Aldous Huxley (1932)

16. The Lord of the Rings +The Hobbit     by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)

17. Slaughterhouse-Five     by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

18. To Kill a Mockingbird     by Harper Lee (1960)

19. A Clockwork Orange     by Anthony Burgess (1963)

20. Heart of Darkness     by Joseph Conrad (1899)

21. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest     by Ken Kessey (1962)

22. Brideshead Revisited     by Evelyn Waugh (1946)

23. Atonement     by Ian McEwan (2002)

24. Blood Meridian     by Cormac McCarthy (1986)

25. Don Quixote     by Miguel de Cervantes (1620)

26. The Brothers Karamazov     by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)

27. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn     by Mark Twain (1884)

28. Anna Karenina     by Leo Tolstoy (1877)

29. Gone With the Wind     by Margaret Mitchell (1936)

30. Moby Dick     by Herman Melville (1851)

31. Jane Eyre     by Charlotte Brontë (1847)

32. Under the Volcano     by Malcolm Lowry (1947)

33. Wuthering Heights     by Emily Brontë (1847)

34. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter     by Carson McCullers (1940)

35. Madame Bovary     by Gustave Flaubert (1856)

36. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man     by James Joyce (1916)

37. A Passage to India     by E. M. Forster (1924)

38. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez (1970)

39. Absalom, Absalom!     by William Faulkner (1936)

40. The French Lieutenant's Woman     by John Fowles (1969)

41. Frankenstein     by Mary Shelley (1818)

42. I, Claudius     by Robert Graves (1934)

43. Pale Fire     by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)

44. Nostromo     by Joseph Conrad (1904)

45. Emma     by Jane Austen (1816)

46. The Trial     by Franz Kafka (1925)

47. The Moviegoer     by Walker Percy (1961)

48. Dune     by Frank Herbert (1965)

49. The Adventures of Augie March     by Saul Bellow (1953)
50. David Copperfield     by Charles Dickens (1850)

51. The Big Sleep     by Raymond Chandler (1939)

52. Of Human Bondage      by W. Somerset Maugham (1915)

53. Death Comes for the Archbishop     by Willa Cather (1927)

54. Beloved     by Toni Morrison (1987)

55. The Day of the Locust     by Nathanael West (1939)

56. Lucky Jim     by Kingsley Amis (1954)

57. The Call of the Wild     by Jack London (1903)

58. The Scarlet Letter     by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

59. Mrs. Dalloway     by Virginia Woolf (1925)

60. Light in August     by William Faulkner (1932)

61. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie     by Muriel Spark (1961)

62. A Farewell to Arms     by Ernest Hemingway (1929)

63. American Pastoral     by Philip Roth (1997)

64. A Bend in the River     by V. S. Naipaul (1979)

65. Money     by Martin Amis (1984)

66. The Sheltering Sky     by Paul Bowles (1949)

67. Tom Jones     by Henry Fielding (1749)

68. Pride and Prejudice     by Jane Austen (1813)

69. War and Peace     by Leo Tolstoy (1869)

70. The Count of Monte Cristo     by Alexandre Dumas (1844)

71. The Ambassadors     by Henry James (1903)

72. An American Tragedy     by Theodore Dreiser (1925)

73. Atlas Shrugged     by Ayn Rand (1957)

74. Great Expectations     by Charles Dickens (1861)

75. The Fountainhead     by Ayn Rand (1943)

76. The Wings of the Dove     by Henry James (1902)
77. Les Misérables     by Victor Hugo (1862)
78. Crime and Punishment     by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
79. The Heart of the Matter     by Graham Greene (1948)
80. Appointment in Samarra     by John O’Hara (1934)
81. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1848)
82. The Golden Bowl     by Henry James (1904)
83. The Portrait of a Lady     by Henry James (1881)

84. Tristram Shandy     by Laurence Sterne (1759)
85. A Handful of Dust     by Evelyn Waugh (1934)
86. All the King's Men     by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
87. The Picture of Dorian Gray     by Oscar Wilde (1890)
88. The Good Soldier     by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
89. The Bridge of San Luis Rey     by Thornton Wilder (1927)

90. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (1956)
91. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (1931)
92. The Charterhouse of Parma     by Stendhal (1839)
93. Go Tell it on the Mountain     by James Baldwin (1953)
94. U.S.A.   by John Dos Passos (1936)
95. Native Son     by Richard Wright (1940)
96. Deliverance     by James Dickey (1970)
97. The Stand     by Stephen King (1978)
98. Little Women     by Louisa May Alcott (1869)
99. A Dance to the Music of Time   by Anthony Powell (1951)
100. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (1980)

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