THE GREATEST NOVELISTS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. James Joyce 
2. Marcel Proust 
3. Franz Kafka 
4. William Faulkner 
5. Thomas Mann 
6. Virginia Woolf 
7. Vladimir Nabokov 
8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
9. Joseph Conrad 
10. Henry James 
11. Albert Camus 
12. Robert Musil 
13. John Steinbeck 
14. Cormac McCarthy 
15. Louis-Ferdinand Céline 
16. Carlos Fuentes 
17. Knut Hamsun 
18. Hermann Hesse 
19. Gunter Grass 
20. Mario Vargas Llosa 
21. Mikhail Bulgakov 
22. Hermann Broch 
23. Julio Cortazar 
24. John Fowles 
25. Italo Calvino 
26. George Orwell 
27. Dino Buzzati 
28. Thomas Pynchon 
29. Ernesto Sabato 
30. Thomas Bernhard 
31. Yasunari Kawabata 
32. Jose Saramago 
33. Ernest Hemingway 
34. Alejo Carpentier 
35. D. H. Lawrence 
36. Mikhail Sholokhov 
37. Umberto Eco 
38. Guillermo Cabrera Infante 
39. Carlo Emilio Gadda 
40. Ismail Kadare 

THE BEST AMERICAN NOVELS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. Absalom, Absalom!, 1936 William Faulkner
2. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 John Steinbeck
3. The Sound and the Fury ,1929 William Faulkner
4. Lolita, 1955 Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Ambassadors, 1903 Henry James
6. Gravity's Rainbow, 1973 Thomas Pynchon
7. Catch-22, 1961 Joseph Heller
8. The Catcher in the Rye, 1951 J. D. Salinger
9. Invisible Man, 1952 Ralph Ellison
10. Blood Meridian, 1985 Cormac McCarthy
11. As I Lay Dying, 1930 William Faulkner
12. Of Mice and Men, 1937 John Steinbeck
13. The Great Gatsby, 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969 Kurt Vonnegut
15. The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 Ernest Hemingway
16. The Golden Bowl, 1904 Henry James
17. Beloved, 1987 Toni Morrison
18. The Recognitions, 1955, William Gaddis
19. Underworld, 1997, Don DeLillo
20. America Pastoral, 1997, Philip Roth 
21. The Sun Also Rises, 1926 Ernest Hemingway
22. Infinite Jest, 1996 David Foster Wallace
23. The U.S.A. Trilogy, 1930-36 John Dos Passos
24. On the Road, 1957 Jack Kerouac
25. An American Tragedy, 1925 Theodore Dreiser
26. Light in August, 1932 William Faulkner
27. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 Vladimir Nabokov
28. Martin Eden, 1909 Jack London
29. A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980 John Kennedy Toole
30. All the Pretty Horses, 1992 Cormac McCarthy
31. Herzog, 1964 Saul Bellow
32. White Noise, 1985 Don DeLillo
33. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 1940 Carson McCullers
34. The Wings of the Dove, 1902 Henry James
35. Tender Is the Night, 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. Rabbit, Run, 1960, Jon Updike, 
37. The Color Purple, 1982, Alice Walker
38. The Naked and the Dead, 1948, Norman Mailer
39. The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960, John Barth
40. The Day of The Locust, 1939, Nathaniel West
41. The Sheltering Sky, 1949, Paul Bowles
42. Native Son, 1940, Richard Wright
43. Pale Fire, 1962 Vladimir Nabokov
44. JR, 1975, William Gaddis
45. Suttree, 1979 Cormac McCarthy
46. The Age of Innocence, 1920 Edith Wharton
47. V, 1963 Thomas Pynchon
48. Libra, 1988 Don DeLillo
49. Arrowsmith, 1925 Sinclair Lewis
50. Cannery Row, 1945 John Steinbeck

THE GREATEST TURKISH POETS

1. Yunus Emre (1240?-1321?)
2. Nazım Hikmet (1902-1963)
3. Fuzuli (1483-1556)
4. Karacaoğlan (17th)
5. Edip Cansever (1928-1986)
6. Turgut Uyar (1927-1985)
7. Bakî (1526-1600)
8. Cemal Süreya (1931-1990)
9. Nedim (1681?-1730)
10. Orhan Veli Kanık (1914-1950)
11. Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914-2008)
12. Yahya Kemal Beyatlı ( 1884-1958)
13. Şeyh Galip (1757-1799)
14. Oktay Rifat (1914-1988)
15. Melih Cevdet Anday (1915-2002)
16. Behçet Necatigil (1916-1979)
17. Ece Ayhan (1931-2002)
18. Nef’i (1572-1635)
19. Pir Sultan Abdal (1480-1550)
20. İlhan Berk (1918-2008)
21. Ahmet Haşim (1884?-1933)
22. Tevfik Fikret (1867-1915) 
23. Sezai Karakoç (1933-)
24. Gülten Akın (1933-2015)
25. Dadaloğlu (1785-1868)

THE BEST POETS OF CLASSIC PERSIAN LITERATURE

1. Rumi (1207-1273)
2. Hafez Shirazi (1325/1326–1389/1390)
3. Omar Khayyam (1048–1131)
4. Sadi (1184-1283/1291?)
5. Ferdowsi (940–1020)
6. Nizami Ganjavi  (1141?-1209)
7. Farīd ud-Dīn  Attar (1145-1146-1221)
8. Jami (1414-1492)
9. Rudaki (858-941)
10. Anvari (1126–1189)
11. Sana’i (1080?-1131)
12. Unsuri (?-1039/1040)
13. Salman Saveci (1309-1376)
14. Asadi Tusi (?- 1072)
15. As'ad Gurgani (11th)
16. Mahmūd Shabistarī (1288-1340)
17. Amir Khusrow (1253-1325)
18. Manuchehri (?-1040)
19. Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān (1046-1121)
20. Khāqāni (1121/1122-1190)

THE BEST RUSSIAN NOVELS OF 20TH CENTURY

1.    The Master and Margarita (written in 1940, published in 1967) Mikhaíl Bulgákov
2.    The Quiet Don 1928-40 Mikhail Sholokhov
3.    Petersburg 1913 Andrei Bely
4.    Life and Fate  (written in 1959, published in 1988) Vasili Grossman
5.    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  1963 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
6.    The Foundation Pit 1929–1930 Andrei Platonov
7.    Doctor Zhivago 1957 Boris Pasternak
8.    Heart of a Dog 1925 Mikhaíl Bulgákov
9.    The Gift 1938 Vladimir Nabokov
10.   We 1921 Yevgeny Zamyatin

THE BEST FRENCH NOVELS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust
2. The Stranger 1942 Albert Camus
3. Journey to the End of Night 1932 Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4. Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable 1951-53 Samuel Beckett
5. Memoirs of Hadrian 1951 Marguerite Yourcenar
6. Belle du Seigneur 1968 Albert Cohen
7. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels 1986-1991 Ágota Kristóf
8. Nausea 1938 Jean-Paul Sartre
9. Froth on the Daydream, 1947 Boris Vian
10. Small Lives 1984 Pierre Michon
11. The Plague 1947 Albert Camus
12. The Counterfeiters 1925 André Gide
13. Promise at Dawn 1960 Romain Gary
14. Life A User's Manual, 1978 Georges Perec
15. Man's Fate 1933 André Malraux
16. The Elementary Particles 1998 Michel Houellebecq
17. Le Grand Meaulnes, 1913 Alain-Fournier 
18. A Man's Place 1983 Annie Ernaux
19. The Opposing Shore, 1951 Julien Gracq
20. The Erl-King, 1970 Michel Tournier 
21. La Jalousie, 1957 Alain Robbe-Grillet 
22. The Fall, 1956 Albert Camus 
23. Beauty on Earth 1927 Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
24. Zazie in the Metro, 1959 Raymond Queneau
25. Nadja 1928 André Breton
26. Second Thoughts, 1957 Michel Butor
27. The Interrogation, 1963 J. M. G. Le Clézio
28. Our Lady of the Flowers, 1943 Jean Genet
29. Nadja, 1928 André Breton
30. Locus Solus, 1914 Raymond Roussel 
31. The Golden Fruits, 1963 Nathalie Sarraute
32. Texaco 1992 Patrick Chamoiseau
33. The Immoralist, 1902 Andre Gide
34. The Lover, 1984 Marguerite Duras
35. Thomas the Obscure, 1941 Maurice Blanchot
36. Moravagine 1926 Blaise Cendrars
37. All the World's Mornings 1991 Pascal Quignard.
38. Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, 1911 Alfred Jarry
39. Strait Is the Gate, 1909 Andre Gide
40. How It Is, 1961 Samuel Beckett
41. The Life Before Us 1975 Romain Gary
42. Thérèse Desqueyroux 1927 François Mauriac. 
43. Moderato Cantabile 1958 Marguerite Duras
44. La Place de l'Étoile 1968 Patrick Modiano.
45. Bonjour Tristesse 1954 Françoise Sagan
46. Leo Africanus 1992 Amin Maalouf
47. I'm Gone 1999 Jean Echenoz
48. Aline 1905 Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
49. Ripening Seed 1923 Colette 
50. My Friends 1924 Emmanuel Bove 

THE BEST GERMAN NOVELS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. The Trial 1925 Franz Kafka
2. The Man Without Qualities 1930-43 Robert Musil
3. The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929 Alfred Doblin
5. The Tin Drum 1959 Gunter Grass
6. Buddenbrooks 1901 Thomas Mann
7. The Castle 1926 Franz Kafka
8. The Death of Virgil 1945 Hermann Broch
9. Doctor Faustus 1947 Thomas Mann
10. Auto da Fé 1935 Elias Canetti
11. Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl 1970-1983 Uwe Johnson
12. Radetzky March 1932 Joseph Roth
13. Siddhartha 1922 Hermann Hesse
14. All Quiet on the Western Front 1929 Erich Maria Remarque
15. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 1910 Rainer Maria Rilke
16. Perfume 1985 Patrick Süskind
17. Steppenwolf 1927 Hermann Hesse
18. The Reader 1995 Bernhard Schlink
19. Zettels Traum 1970 Arno Schmidt
20. Gargoyles 1967 Thomas Bernhard
21. Jakob von Gunten 1909 Robert Walser
22. The Aesthetics of Resistance 1975-1981 Peter Weiss
23. The Glass Bead Game 1943 Hermann Hesse
24. The Loser 1983 Thomas Bernhard
25. The Sleepwalkers 1932 Hermann Broch
26. The Land of Green Plums 1994 Herta Müller 
27. Homo Faber 1957 Max Frisch
28. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum 1974 Heinrich Böll
29. Demian 1919 Hermann Hesse
30. Woodcutters 1984 Thomas Bernhard
31. The Confusions of Young Törless 1906 Robert Musil
32. Correction 1975 Thomas Bernhard
33. The Strudelhof Steps 1951 Heimito von Doderer
34. The Clown 1963 Heinrich Böll
35. Montauk 1975 Max Frisch
36. Beware of Pity 1939 Stefan Zweig

THE BEST NOVELS (1000-1800)

1. Don Quixote 1605-1615 Miguel de Cervantes
2. Tristram Shandy 1760-67 Laurence Sterne
3. The Dangerous Liaisons 1782 Choderlos de Laclos
4. The Tale of Genji 11th Century Murasaki Shikibu
5. The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. Gulliver's Travels 1726 Jonathan Swift
7. Robinson Crusoe 1719 Daniel Defoe
8. Jacques the Fatalist and his Master 1796 Denis Diderot
9. Tom Jones 1749 Henry Fielding  
10. Dream of the Red Chamber 1791 Cao Xueqin  
11. The Princess of Cleves 1678 Madame de Lafayette  
12. The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel 1532-1564 François Rabelais
13. Julie, or the New Heloise 1761 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
14. Clarissa 1748 Samuel Richardson
15. Candide 1759 Voltaire
16. Manon Lescaut 1731 Abbé Prévos
17. Gil Blas 1715-1735 Alain-René Lesage
18. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded 1740 Samuel Richardson
19. The Adventures of Telemachus 1699 François Fénelon
20. Hayy ibn Yaqdhan 12th Century Ibn Tufail

THE 100 BEST NOVELS OF 19th CENTURY

1. War and Peace (1869), Leo Tolstoy
2. The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Feodor Dostoevsky
3. Madame Bovary (1857), Gustave Flaubert
4. Crime and Punishment (1866), Feodor Dostoevsky
5. Anna Karenina (1877), Leo Tolstoy
6. The Red and the Black (1830), Stendhal
7. Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville
8. Middlemarch (1872), George Eliot
9. Pride and Prejudice (1813), Jane Austen
10. Le Père Goriot (1835), Honoré de Balzac
11. Germinal (1885), Emile Zola
12. Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily Brontë 
13. Great Expectations (1861), Charles Dickens
14. Dead Souls (1842), Nikolai Gogol
15. Emma (1816), Jane Austen
16. The Idiot (1869), Fyodor Dostoevsky
17. Bleak House (1853), Charles Dickens
18. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Mark Twain 
19. Oblomov (1859), Ivan Goncharov
20. Hunger (1890), Knut Hamsun
21. Sentimental Education (1869), Gustave Flaubert
22. Fathers and Sons (1862), Ivan Turgenev
23. The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Henry James
24. Les Miserables (1862), Victor Hugo
25. A Hero of Our Time (1840), Mikhail Lermontov
26. Dom Casmurro (1899), Machado de Assis
27. Eugénie Grandet (1833), Honoré de Balzac
28. Sense and Sensibility (1811), Jane Austen
29. L'Assommoir (1877), Emile Zola
30. Against Nature (1884), Joris-Karl Huysmans
31. The Charterhouse of Parma (1839), Stendhal
32. Demons (1872), Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), Thomas Hardy
34. David Copperfield (1850), Charles Dickens
35. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Victor Hugo
36. Vanity Fair (1848), William Thackeray
37. Frankenstein (1818), Mary Shelley 
38. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881), Machado de Assis
39. Pan (1894), Knut Hamsun
40. The Scarlet Letter (1850), Nathaniel Hawthorne
41. Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881), Gustave Flaubert
42. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde
43. Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Brontë
44. Washington Square (1880), Henry James
45. The Betrothed (1827), Alessandro Manzoni
46. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Charles Dickens
47. Nana (1880), Emile Zola 
48. The Red Badge of Courage (1895) Stephen Crane
49. Bel-Ami (1885), Guy de Maupassant
50. The Woman in White (1859), Wilkie Collins
51. Barchester Towers (1857), Anthony Trollope 
52. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), Edgar Allan Poe
53. I Malavoglia (1881), Giovanni Verga
54. Jude the Obscure (1895), Thomas Hardy
55. La Cousine Bette (1846), Honoré de Balzac
56. Eugene Onegin (1833), Aleksandr Pushkin
57. Silas Marner (1861), George Eliot 
58. The Count of Monte Cristo (1846), Alexandre Dumas
59. Erewhon (1872), Samuel Butler  
60. The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin
61. Three Men in a Boat (1889), Jerome K.Jerome
62. Mansfield Park (1814), Jane Austen
63. Elective Affinities (1809), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
64. Effi Briest (1896), Theodor Fontane
65. Ivanhoe (1819), Sir Walter Scott
66. Fortunata and Jacinta (1887), Perez Galdos
67. The Mill on the Floss (1860), George Eliot
68. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Harriet Beecher Stowe
69. North and South (1855), Elizabeth Gaskell
70. The Magic Skin (1831), Honoré de Balzac
71. Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Jules Verne
72. Dracula (1897), Bram Stoker
73. The Maias (1888), José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
74. The Doll (1890), Bolesław Prus
75. Senilità (1898), Italo Svevo
76. Tartarin of Tarascon (1872), Alphonse Daudet
77. A Study in Scarlet (1887), Conan Doyle 
78. Fru Marie Grubbe (1876), Jens Peter Jacobsen
79. Nightmare Abbey (1818), Thomas Love Peacock
80. The Three Musketeers (1844), Alexandre Dumas 
81. Green Henry (1855), Gottfried Keller
82. The War of the Worlds (1898), H.G.Wells
83. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Anne Bronte
84. Bruges-la-Morte (1892), Georges Rodenbach
85. Qua Vadis (1985); Henryk Sienkiewicz
86. Beauchamp's Career (1875), George Meredith
87. The Last of the Mohicans (1826) , James Fenimore Cooper
88. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), James Hogg
89. The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867), Anthony Trollope
90. The Moonstone (1868), Wilkie Collins
91. Esther Waters (1894), George Moore
92. Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), Thomas Hardy
93. The Golovlyov Family (1876), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
94. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), Jules Verne
95. Diary of a Nobody (1892), Weedon Grossmith 
96. The Red Room (1879), August Strindberg
97. Lorna Doone (1869), R.D.Blackmoore
98. Adolphe (1816), Benjamin Constant
99. Stopfkuchen (1891), Wilhelm Raabe
100. Indiana (1832), George Sand

THE 100 BEST NOVELS OF 20th CENTURY

1. Ulysses, 1922 James Joyce
2. In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27 Marcel Proust
3. The Man Without Qualities, 1930-43 Robert Musil 
4. The Trial, 1925 Franz Kafka
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. The Sound and the Fury, 1929 William Faulkner
7. The Magic Mountain, 1924 Thomas Mann 
8. The Stranger, 1942 Albert Camus
9. To The Lighthouse, 1927 Virginia Woolf
10. Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable, 1951-53 Samuel Beckett
11. Absalom, Absalom!, 1936 William Faulkner
12. Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 George Orwell
13. Journey to the End of Night, 1932 Louis-Ferdinand Céline
14. The Master and Margarita, 1967 Mikhaíl Bulgákov 
15. Lolita, 1955 Vladimir Nabokov 
16. The Tin Drum, 1959 Gunter Grass 
17. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 John Steinbeck
18. The Quiet Don, 1928-40 Mikhail Sholokhov 
19. The Castle, 1926 Franz Kafka 
20. Buddenbrooks, 1901 Thomas Mann
21. Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1929 Alfred Döblin
22. Hopscotch, 1963 Julio Cortázar
23. Gravity’s Rainbow, 1973 Thomas Pynchon
24. Nostromo, 1904 Joseph Conrad
25. Catch-22, 1961 Joseph Heller
26. The Death of Virgil, 1945 Hermann Broch 
27. Pedro Páramo, 1955 Juan Rulfo
28. Mrs.Dalloway, 1925 Virginia Woolf
29. The Ambassadors, 1903 Henry James
30. Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
31. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916 James Joyce
32. Petersburg, 1913 Andrei Bely 
33. Sons and Lovers, 1913 D. H. Lawrence
34. The Death of Artemio Cruz, 1962 Carlos Fuentes
35. Confessions of Zeno, 1923 Italo Svevo
36. Doctor Faustus, 1947 Thomas Mann 
37. Invisible Man, 1952 Ralph Ellison
38. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, 1956 João Guimarães Rosa
39. The Tartar Steppe, 1940 Dino Buzzati
40. The Name of the Rose, 1980 Umberto Eco 
41. Under the Volcano, 1947 Malcolm Lowry
42. As I Lay Dying, 1930 William Faulkner
43. Memoirs of Hadrian, 1951 Marguerite Yourcenar
44. The Tunnel, 1948 Ernesto Sabato
45. Blood Meridian, 1985 Cormac McCarthy
46. Season of Migration to the North, 1966 Tayeb Salih
47. The Leopard, 1958 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
48. Independent People, 1934-35 Halldór Laxness
49. A Passage to India, 1924 E. M. Forster
50. Insatiability, 1930 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
51. Cities of Salt, 1984-89 Abdul Rahman Munif
52. Things Fall Apart, 1958 Chinua Achebe
53. The Plague, 1947 Albert Camus
54. Auto da Fé, 1935 Elias Canetti 
55. Kokoro, 1914 Natsume Sōseki
56. Three Trapped Tigers, 1967 Guillermo Cabrera Infante
57. Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969 Kurt Vonnegut
58. Life and Fate, 1959 Vasili Grossman
59. The Sun Also Rises, 1926 Ernest Hemingway
60. The Time of the Hero, 1963 Mario Vargas Llosa
61. Ferdydurke, 1937 Witold Gombrowicz
62. Blindness, 1995 José Saramago
63. That Awful Mess on Via Merulana, 1957 Carlo Emilio Gadda
64. The Savage Detectives, 1998 Roberto Bolaño
65. Pale Fire, 1962 Vladimir Nabokov
66. The House of the Spirits, 1982 Isabel Allende
67. The Golden Bowl, 1904 Henry James
68. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, 1979 Italo Calvino,
69. Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, 1970-83 Uwe Johnson
70. Nausea, 1938 Jean-Paul Sartre
71. The Sound of the Mountain, 1949-54 Yasunari Kawabata
72. The General of the Dead Army, 1963 Ismail Kadare
73. Lord of the Flies, 1954 William Golding
74. Beloved, 1987 Toni Morrison
75. The Kingdom of This World, 1949 Alejo Carpentier
76. History, 1974 Elsa Morante 
77. The Golden Notebook, 1962 Doris Lessing
78. Mister President, 1946 Miguel Ángel Asturias
79. Infinite Jest, 1996 David Foster Wallace
80. The Great Gatsby, 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald
81. Radetzky March, 1932 Joseph Roth
82. The Cairo Trilogy, 1956-57 Naguib Mahfouz
83. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929 Erich Maria Remarque 
84. The U.S.A. Trilogy, 1930-36 John Dos Passos
85. The French Lieutenant's Woman, 1969 John Fowles
86. The Catcher in the Rye, 1951 J. D. Salinger
87. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1963 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 
88. On the Road, 1957 Jack Kerouac
89. Zorba the Greek, 1946 Nikos Kazantzakis
90. The Counterfeiters, 1926 Andre Gide
91. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, 1910 Rainer Maria Rilke
92. Lord Jim, 1900 Joseph Conrad
93. The Sea of Fertility, 1969-71 Yukio Mishima
94. The Joke, 1967 Milan Kundera
95. I, the Supreme, 1974 Augusto Roa Bastos
96. The Bridge on the Drina, 1945 Ivo Andrić
97. Siddhartha, 1922 Hermann Hesse
98. Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel, 1984 Milorad Pavić
99. Perfume, 1985 Patrick Süskind
100. Paradiso, 1966 José Lezama Lima

THE 100 BEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME

1. Don Quixote (1605-15), Miguel de Cervantes
2. War and Peace (1869), Leo Tolstoy
3. The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Feodor Dostoevsky
4. Ulysses (1922), James Joyce
5. In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), Marcel Proust
6. Madame Bovary (1857), Gustave Flaubert
7. Crime and Punishment (1866), Feodor Dostoevsky
8. Anna Karenina (1877), Leo Tolstoy
9. The Man Without Qualities (1930-43), Robert Musil 
10. The Trial (1925), Franz Kafka
11. The Red and the Black (1830), Stendhal
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13. Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville
14. Tristram Shandy (1760-67), Laurence Sterne
15. The Sound and the Fury (1929), William Faulkner
16. The Magic Mountain (1924), Thomas Mann
17. Middlemarch (1872), George Eliot
18. Le Père Goriot (1835), Honoré de Balzac 
19. Germinal (1885), Emile Zola
20. Pride and Prejudice (1813), Jane Austen 
21. To The Lighthouse (1927), Virginia Woolf
22. Absalom, Absalom! (1936), William Faulkner
23. The Quiet Don (1928-40), Mikhail Sholokhov 
24. The Idiot (1869), Fyodor Dostoevsky 
25. Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily Brontë 
26. Dead Souls (1842), Nikolai Gogol
27. The Stranger (1942), Albert Camus
28. Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable (1951-53), Samuel Beckett
29. Journey to the End of Night (1932), Louis-Ferdinand Céline
30. The Tale of Genji (11th Century), Murasaki Shikibu
31. Great Expectations (1861), Charles Dickens
32. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) George Orwell
33. Tom Jones (1749), Henry Fielding
34. Lolita (1955), Vladimir Nabokov
35. Hopscotch (1963), Julio Cortázar
36. Mrs.Dalloway (1925), Virginia Woolf
37. The Ambassadors (1903), Henry James
38. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Mark Twain 
39. The Master and Margarita (1967) Mikhaíl Bulgákov
40. Emma (1816), Jane Austen
41. Sentimental Education (1869), Gustave Flaubert
42. Oblomov (1859), Ivan Goncharov
43. The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Henry James 
44. Hunger (1890), Knut Hamsun
45. The Tin Drum (1959) Gunter Grass
46. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), Gabriel Garcia Marquez
47. The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck
48. Buddenbrooks (1901), Thomas Mann
49. The Castle (1926) Franz Kafka 
50. The Tartar Steppe (1940), Dino Buzzati
51. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), Alfred Döblin
52. Bleak House (1853), Charles Dickens
53. Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Thomas Pynchon
54. Dream of the Red Chamber (1791), Cao Xueqin
55. Nostromo (1904), Joseph Conrad
56. Les Miserables (1862), Victor Hugo 
57. Catch-22 (1961), Joseph Heller
58. The Death of Virgil (1945), Hermann Broch
59. A Hero of Our Time (1840), Mikhail Lermontov 
60. Pedro Páramo (1955), Juan Rulfo
61. Dom Casmurro (1899), Machado de Assis
62. Eugénie Grandet (1833), Honoré de Balzac
63. Sense and Sensibility (1811), Jane Austen
64. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), James Joyce
65. The Woman in White (1859), Wilkie Collins
66. Petersburg (1913), Andrei Bely 
67. Sons and Lovers (1913), D. H. Lawrence
68. The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Carlos Fuentes
69. Confessions of Zeno (1923), Italo Svevo
70. Doctor Faustus (1947), Thomas Mann 
71. Invisible Man (1952), Ralph Ellison
72. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956), João Guimarães Rosa
73. The Name of the Rose (1980), Umberto Eco
74. Fathers and Sons (1862), Ivan Turgenev
75. The Charterhouse of Parma (1839), Stendhal
76. L'Assommoir (1877), Emile Zola 
77. Under the Volcano (1947), Malcolm Lowry
78. As I Lay Dying (1930), William Faulkner
79. Demons (1872), Fyodor Dostoevsky
80. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), Thomas Hardy
81. David Copperfield (1850), Charles Dickens
82. Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), Marguerite Yourcenar
83. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Victor Hugo
84. Vanity Fair (1848), William Thackeray
85. Against Nature (1884), Joris-Karl Huysmans
86. The Tunnel (1948), Ernesto Sabato
87. Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy
88. Robinson Crusoe (1719), Daniel Defoe
89. The Princess of Cleves (1678), Madame de Lafayette
90. The Dangerous Liaisons (1782), Choderlos de Laclos
91. Season of Migration to the North (1966), Tayeb Salih
92. The Leopard (1958), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 
93. Independent People (1934-35), Halldór Laxness
94. A Passage to India (1924), E. M. Forster
95. The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
96. Frankenstein (1818), Mary Shelley
97. Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (1796), Denis Diderot
98. Insatiability (1930), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
99. Auto da Fé (1935), Elias Canetti
100. Things Fall Apart, 1958 Chinua Achebe