Read The Observer's Top 100 Novels of All Time

As a bit of a literary fanatic, let's see how far I have come to reading the Top 100 Novels of All Time. I have decided I liked this list better because it included novels not of the 21st and 20th century. Let's get started, shall we?

Read The Observer's Top 100 Novels of All Time

1. Don Quizote Miguel De Cervantes
2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe   
1. It was an adolescent version, but it definitely counts!
4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 
5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding 
6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson
7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 
8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos 
9. Emma Jane Austen
1. Saw the play, loved the play.
10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley 
11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock
12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac
13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal 
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas  
15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli 
16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens 
17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 
18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 
1. Technically I never got through the last 100 pages, need to work on that.
19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 
1.  I would have enjoyed it more if I had not read it in school
21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville 
22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 
23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll 
1. Great book but a disturbing childhood favorite.
   
25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott 
1.  Beautiful on so many levels, I loved this novel!
   
26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 
27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy  
28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot  
29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 
30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 
31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain  
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 
33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome  
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 
35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith 
36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 
37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers 
38. The Call of the Wild Jack London 
39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad 
40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame  
41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 
42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence 
43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 
45. Ulysses James Joyce 
46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 
47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster 
48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 
49. The Trial Franz Kafka 
50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway  
51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine  
52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley 
54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh 
55. USA John Dos Passos 
56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 
57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford   
58. The Plague Albert Camus 
    
59.  Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 
60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett 
61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger  
62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor  
63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White  
64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 
65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 
66. Lord of the Flies William Golding 
1. Terribly sexist book, I have read it (unfortunately).
   
67. The Quiet American Graham Greene 
68. On the Road Jack Kerouac 
69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov  
70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass 
71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 
73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee 
74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller 
75. Herzog Saul Bellow 
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor 
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre 
79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison  
80. Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge 
81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer  
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 
83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 
84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee 
85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 
86. Lanark Alasdair Gray 
87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster  
88. The BFG Roald Dahl 
89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi 
90. Money Martin Amis 
91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro  
92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey 
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera 
94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie
95.  La Confidential James Ellroy 
96. Wise Children Angela Carter 
97. Atonement Ian McEwan  
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman 
99. American Pastoral Philip Roth 
100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 

I thought I was a lot more versed in literature, but this is only one list of "top novels"!