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