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Top Ten Novels of all Time

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy's style in Anna Karenina is considered by many critics to be transitional, forming a bridge between the realist and modernist novel. The novel is narrated from a third-person-omniscient perspective, shifting the narrator's attention to several major characters, though most frequently focusing on the opposing lifestyles and attitudes of its central protagonists of Anna and Levin.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

After Flaubert's acquittal on 7 February 1857, Madame Bovary became a bestseller in April 1857 when it was published in two volumes. A seminal work of literary realism, the novel is now considered Flaubert's masterpiece, and one of the most influential literary works in history.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

For all the praise showered on Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Tolstoy rejected the two works later in his life as something not as true of reality. In his novel Resurrection, Tolstoy attempts to expose the injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church.

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The Great Gatsby by F
The Great Gatsby by F

... The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald ... The Great Gatsby is the American novel on this list that remains, ... one of my all-time favourites, ...

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Download Lolita PDF eBook by Vladimir Nabokov, Craig Raine online free & start reading one of the best novels of all time despite its disturbing storyline. Download Lolita PDF eBook by Vladimir Nabokov, Craig Raine online free & start reading one of the best novels of all time despite its disturbing storyline.

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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Middlemarch by George Eliot

George Eliot's masterpiece, Middlemarch, appeared after the deaths of Thackeray (1863) and Dickens (1870). This is hardly an accident. Subtitled "a study of provincial life", the novel has a didactic realism that's a world away from Vanity Fair or Great Expectations.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A list of important facts about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, including setting, climax, protagonists, and antagonists.

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The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

201 Stories by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett …

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England.

Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. Although it was not a great success at the time—selling fewer than three thousand copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print—it soon went on to become a best-seller.

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The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is seen as one of the great American 20th century novelists, and is known for works like A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea. Synopsis Born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois, Ernest Hemingway served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time.

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Animal Farm – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell

In Animal Farm he restages the hypocrisies of the Russian Revolution with the principal figures played by, of all things, farm animals. By presenting atrocities in the terms of a fairy tale, he makes them fresh, restoring to readers numbed by the 20th century’s parade of disasters a sense of shock and outrage.

Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom

Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American writer Mitch Albom. The story was later recreated by Thomas Rickman into a TV movie of the same name directed by Mick Jackson, which aired on December 5, 1999 and starred Hank Azaria. The book topped the New York Times Non-Fiction Bestsellers of 2000.

High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby

High Fidelity. Bestselling author Nick Hornby explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love in his astutely observed, hilarious million-copy-selling first novel High Fidelity. Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact.

The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Giver – Lois Lowry

The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas.

Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl

During the making of the film version of Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson returned to the Great Missenden countryside that had inspired the original story, staying with Roald's widow Felicity "Liccy" Dahl while he wrote the screenplay. In the original book Mr and Mrs Fox don't have first names, but in his version Wes gave Mrs Fox the name Felicity.

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

A review of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy : ... This is one of my favorite books of all time. ... Best 100 Novels>Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird voted Greatest Novel Of All Time To Kill a Mockingbird has been voted the 'Greatest novel of all time' according to a new poll.

The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American fiction. It is a novel of triumph and tragedy, noted for the remarkable way Fitzgerald captured a cross-section of American society.

One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. Mr. García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life.

A Passage to India
A Passage to India

A Passage to India was published on 4 June 1924 by the British imprint Edward Arnold, and then on 14 August in New York by Harcourt, Brace and Co. Forster borrowed his title from a Walt Whitman poem of the same name in Leaves of Grass.

Invisible Man
Invisible Man

All-TIME 100 Novels. ... Evenhandedly exposing the hypocrisies and stereotypes of all comers, Invisible Man is far more than a race novel, ...

Don Quixote
Don Quixote

Don Quixote, the tale of a Spanish knight driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, was yesterday voted the best book of all time in a survey of around 100 of the world's best authors. "If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote," the Nigerian author Ben Okri said at the Norwegian Nobel Institute as he announced the results of history's most expansive authors' poll.

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Beloved
Beloved

BBC's The Big Read - Best Loved Novels of All Time. The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the UK in 2003, ...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee's only published book until Go Set a Watchman, an earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, was published on July 14, 2015. Lee continued to respond to her work's impact until her death in February 2016, although she had refused any personal publicity for herself or the novel since 1964.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
On the Road by Jack Kerouac

On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.

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Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen

Tell Me a Riddle study guide contains a biography of Tillie Olsen, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis of the collected short stories, including I Stand Here Ironing.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations was the thirteenth novel of Charles Dickens. He began writing it in October of 1860. Its initial publication was in All the Year Round, a weekly periodical founded and owned by Charles Dickens.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the début novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia.

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