Best Novels of All Time


Books undoubtedly have the power to change human beings, and some of the best novels are timeless classics that have so much to offer. The most intriguing part about books is their ability to let the reader use his/her own imagination to picture the words and characters, rather than movies which create these characters for you. There have been millions of famous novels written so far, and each and every one of them has something unique and special to offer, for those who care to read.

A great novel does not depend on language or any other boundary, because a good story and an interesting character appeals to everyone universally. Appreciation for best selling novels is not something that should be taken lightly, because a good book can start a chain of events that seems impossible.

There are a number of genres and book styles that appeal to different people though, and it all depends on your personal tastes and preferences. The best books of all time transcend these tastes though, because they truly have something for everyone. Reading any of these must read novels will transport you to another world, albeit for a short while, and it will change you permanently. So with these thoughts in mind, let's look at some of the best books you must get our hands on!

100 Best Novels of All Time

Serial No. Name of the Book Authors Name
1 Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
2 1984 George Orwell
3 To Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee
4 Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
5 Animal Farm George Orwell
6 Brave New World Aldous huxley
7 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
8 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
9 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
10 Call of the Wild Jack London
11 White Fang Jack London
12 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
13 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
14 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
15 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
16 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
17 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
18 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
19 The Harry Potter Series J.K. Rowling
20 Lord of the Flies William Golding
21 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
22 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
23 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
24 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
25 The Adventures of Hucleberry Finn Mark Twain
26 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27 Les Miserables Victor Hugo
28 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
29 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
30 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
31 Ulysses James Joyce
32 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
33 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
34 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
35 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
36 Moby Dick Herman Melville
37 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
38 Frankenstein Mary Shelley
39 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
40 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
41 Snow Orhan Pamuk
42 My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk
43 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
44 Dracula Bram Stoker
45 Life of Pi Yann Martel
46 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
47 On the Road Jack Kerouac
48 The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux
49 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor
50 Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
51 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
52 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
53 Emma Jane Austen
54 Persuasion Jane Austen
55 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
56 The Trial Franz Kafka
57 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
58 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
59 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
60 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
61 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
62 War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
63 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
65 All the King's Men Robert Penn
66 Atonement Ian McEwan
67 The day of the Locust Nathanael West
68 Dog Soldiers Robert Stone
69 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
70 Herzog Saul Bellow
71 I, Claudius Robert Graves
72 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
73 A Passage to India E.M. Forster
74 Possession A.S. Byatt
75 Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
76 Rabbit, Run John Updike
77 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
78 The Sportswriter Richard Ford
79 Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
80 Foundation Series Isaac Asimov
81 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
82 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
83 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
84 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
85 Tom Jones Henry Fielding
86 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
87 The Golden Bowl Henry James
88 Vanity Fair William Thackeray
89 Silas Marner George Eliot
90 Nostromo Joseph Conrad
91 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
92 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
93 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
94 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
95 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein
96 The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem
97 Money Martin Amis
98 Martin Eden Jack London
99 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
100 The Ramayana Series Ashok Banker

Please note that this list of the greatest novels of all time is not ranked in any order. These are some of the best books that I have come across in my time and loved in their own right. These novels cannot be ranked, but they can be appreciated along with each other. If there are good novels that are not included in this list, feel free to write about them in the comments section below.

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