It’s a listFrom London. They are naming the 100 greatest novels. Naturally, they miss all kinds of good ones and elevate some ones I don’t think deserve it.
But here’s my score of which ones I’ve read:
1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes YES
2. Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan YES
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe YES
4. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift YES
5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding NOPE
6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson NOPE
7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne NOPE
8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos NOPE
9. Emma Jane Austen NOPE, but read others byher
10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley YES
11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock NOPE
12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac NOPE
13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal NOPE
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas NOPE, I could live without Dumas
15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli NOPE
16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens NOPE, but read others by him
17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte NOPE
18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte YES
19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray OWN IT, haven’t read it yet
20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne YES
21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville YES
22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert YES, love it
23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins NOPE
24. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll YES, pure genius
25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott YES
26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope NOPE
27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy IN PROGRESS
28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot NOPE
29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky NOPE, but read others by him
30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James YES, I love this novel
31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain YES
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson NOPE
33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome NOPE
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde NOPE
35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith NOPE
36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy NOPE
37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers NOPE
38. The Call of the Wild Jack London NOPE, but read others by him
39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad NOPE, but read others by him
40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame YES
41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust NOPE
42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence NOPE, but read others by him
43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford NOPE
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan YES
45. Ulysses James Joyce STILL IN PROGRESS
46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf YES
47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster NOPE
48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald YES
49. The Trial Franz Kafka NOPE
50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway NOPE
51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine NOPE
52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner NOPE, but read others by him
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley NOPE
54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh NOPE
55. USA John Dos Passos NOPE
56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler YES
57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford NOPE
58. The Plague Albert Camus NOPE
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell YES
60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett NOPE, but read others by him
61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger YES
62. Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor NOPE, but read others by him
63. Charlotte’s Web E. B. White YES
64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien YES
65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis NOPE
66. Lord of the Flies William Golding NOPE
67. The Quiet American Graham Greene NOPE
68 On the Road Jack Kerouac YES
69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov YES
70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass NOPE
71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe YES
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark NOPE
73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee YES
74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller YES
75. Herzog Saul Bellow NOPE, but read others by him
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez YES, LOVE IT
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor NOPE
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre NOPE
79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison NOPE, but read others by her
80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge NOPE
81. The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer NOPE
82. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller Italo Calvino YES, it was very highbrow
83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul NOPE
84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee NOPE
85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson NOPE
86. Lanark Alasdair Gray NOPE
87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster NOPE
88. The BFG Roald Dahl NOPE, but read other by him
89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi NOPE
90. Money Martin Amis NOPE
91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro NOPE
92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey NOPE
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera NOPE, but read others by him
94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie READ IT, own it, love it
95. La Confidential James Ellroy NOPE
96. Wise Children Angela Carter NOPE
97. Atonement Ian McEwan NOPE
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman NOPE
99. American Pastoral Philip Roth NOPE, but read others by him
100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald NOPE