300 Greatest Novels of All Time (Revision Version)

[ManPerson]

Criteria: These greatest novels of all time are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.

Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of literature. This means that in the broader scope of a global literature certain regions may be underrepresented, among them India, China, Africa and Latin America.

Edited By: Tim
List Begun: 2022-11-18

Link: https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/book ... ovels.html



1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. Ulysses by James Joyce
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
6. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
10. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
11. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
12. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
14. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
15. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
16. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
17. Middlemarch by George Eliot
18. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
19. The Trial by Franz Kafka
20. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
21. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
22. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
23. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
24. Emma by Jane Austen
25. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
27. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
28. Candide by Voltaire
29. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
30. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
31. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
32. Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
33. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
34. The Stranger by Albert Camus
35. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
36. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
37. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
38. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
40. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
42. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
43. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
44. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
45. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
46. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
47. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
48. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
49. Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
50. Utopia by Thomas More
51. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
52. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
53. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
54. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
55. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
56. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
57. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
58. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
59. Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
60. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
61. Beloved by Toni Morrison
62. The Ambassadors by Henry James
63. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
64. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
65. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
66. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
67. A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
68. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
69. Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
70. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
71. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
72. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
73. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
74. Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
75. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
76. The Castle by Franz Kafka
77. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
78. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
79. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
80. Persuasion by Jane Austen
81. Germinal by Émile Zola
82. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
83. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
84. Dracula by Bram Stoker
85. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
86. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
87. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
88. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
89. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
90. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
91. The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette
92. Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo
93. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
94. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
95. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
96. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
97. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
98. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
99. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
100. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
101. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
102. Native Son by Richard Wright
103. The Water Margin by Shi Naian
104. Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail
105. Animal Farm by George Orwell
106. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
107. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
108. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
109. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
110. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
111. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
112. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
113. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
114. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
115. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
116. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
117. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
118. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
119. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
120. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
121. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
122. The Plague by Albert Camus
123. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
124. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
125. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
126. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
127. Prose Tristan by Unknown
128. The Tale of the Heike by Helen Craig McCullough
129. Tale of Hong Gildong by Heo Gyun
130. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
131. My Antonia by Willa Cather
132. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
133. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
134. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
135. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
137. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
138. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
139. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
140. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
141. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
142. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
143. Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
144. Lazarillo de Tormes by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
145. Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
146. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
147. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
148. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
149. Moll Flanders by Daniel DeFoe
150. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
151. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
152. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
153. Waverley by Walter Scott
154. Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
155. Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola
156. Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
157. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
158. Simplicius Simplicissimus by H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen
159. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
160. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
161. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
162. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
163. And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
164. Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
165. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
166. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
167. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
168. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
169. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
170. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
171. Howards End by E.M. Forster
172. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
173. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
174. Nineteen Nineteen/The 42nd Parallel/The Big Money by John Dos Passos
175. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
176. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
177. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
178. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
179. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
180. Light in August by William Faulkner
181. Herzog by Saul Bellow
182. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
183. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
184. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
185. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
186. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
187. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
188. Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
189. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
190. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
191. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
192. Silas Marner by George Eliot
193. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
194. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
195. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
196. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
197. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
198. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
199. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
200. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
201. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
202. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
203. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
204. Blindness by José Saramago
205. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
206. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
207. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
208. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
209. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
210. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
211. Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
212. Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin
213. El Buscón by Francisco de Quevedo
214. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
215. The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan
216. Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
217. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
218. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
219. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
220. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
221. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
222. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
223. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
224. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
225. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
226. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
227. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
228. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
229. La Regenta by Clarín
230. Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
231. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis
232. Maldoror (Les Chants de Maldoror) by Comte de Lautréamont
233. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
234. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
235. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
236. Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
237. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
238. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
239. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
240. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
241. Rabbit Redux by John Updike
242. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
243. Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemá
244. Pamela by Samuel Richardson
245. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
246. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerom
247. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
248. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
249. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
250. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
251. Atonement by Ian McEwan
252. Thomas of Reading, Or, The Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West by Thomas Deloney
253. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
254. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
255. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
256. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
257. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
258. The World According to Garp by John Irving
259. The Stand by Stephen King
260. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
261. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
262. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
263. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
264. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
265. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
266. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
267. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
268. Dune by Frank Herbert
269. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
270. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
271. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
272. Petersburg by Andrei Bely
273. Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
274. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
275. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
276. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
277. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
278. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
279. The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
280. The Nun by Denis Diderot
281. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
282. Season of Migration to the North by Al-Tayyib Salih
283. Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz
284. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
285. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
286. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
287. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
288. Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
289. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
290. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
291. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
292. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
293. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
294. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
295. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
296. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
297. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
298. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
299. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
300. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

[Brian]

I'm currently working on a list of greatest novellas. The hardest thing about the list is determining what is a novella and what isn't. I plan to go with what I think is the generally accepted length - 17,500-40,000 words - but I can't find comprehensive info about the word count for every work. I have found a site that uses the 17,500-40,00 length, and one that does, but stretches it a bit, so for most works I have a pretty good idea for what qualifies. However, if anyone knows where i can find that info for every work, I'm interested. Below are some works that I'm considering for the list, but I'm uncertain if they qualify, so I'd be interested in info about any one of these. These 3 works I think probably do:

Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick

These I think are probably a little to long:

The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
The Sorrows of Young Werther, J. W. von Goethe
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur C. Doyle

And I'm on the fence about these:

The Vet's Daughter, Barbara Comyns
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
At the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll

[ManPerson]

Tim, how do you think Lady Chatterley's Lover compares with The Rainbow?

[Tim]

Well, neither made the all time list but I checked the 20th century one and The Rainbow is on it while Lady Chatterley's Lover is not which appears to be an oversight on my part. I intend to change that upon the future revisions with Lady Chatterley's Lover being added to the 20th list and arguably even to an all time list.

[ManPerson]

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Treasure Island both seem really low on the 19th century list, both top 35 for the century on TGB, both appeared on the top 150 list Brian showed back on the old forum, and both are some of the more lastingly popular and culturally impactful books of the century as well.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240515170 ... &start=105

I'd move up Slaughterhouse-Five, The Bell Jar and All Quiet on the Western Front on the 20th century list for similar reasons.

Some novels I'd suggest adding to the 20th century list and maybe even the overall top 300:

Giovanni's Room fairly close, if not stronger, when compared to Go Tell It On the Mountain

Siddhartha seems like an omission from the 20th century list as well, strong acclaim and lasting popularity.

Anne of Green Gables is one of the top selling novels of all time,

I'm also curious how The Trial and TGG break down.

[Tim]

Wanna draft a revision yourself Man?

[ManPerson]

Here's what I'd say for 19th century

1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
8. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot
11. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
14. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
15. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
16. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
17. Emma by Jane Austen
18. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
21. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
22. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
23. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
24. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
25. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
26. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
27. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
28. Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
29. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
30. A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
31. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
32. Dracula by Bram Stoker
33. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
34. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
35. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
36. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
37. Persuasion by Jane Austen
38. Germinal by Émile Zola
39. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
40. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
41. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
42. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
43. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
44. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
45. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
46. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
47. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
48. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
49. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
50. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
51. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
52. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
53. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
54. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
55. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
56. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
57. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
58. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
59. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
60. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
61. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
62. Waverley by Walter Scott
63. Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola
64. Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
65. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
66. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
67. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
68. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
69. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
70. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
71. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
72. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
73. Silas Marner by George Eliot
74. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
75. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
76. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
77. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
78. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
79. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
80. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
81. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
82. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
83. Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
84. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
85. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
86. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
87. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
88. La Regenta by Clarín
89. Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
90. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis
91. Maldoror (Les Chants de Maldoror) by Comte de Lautréamont
92. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
93. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
94. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
95. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
96. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
97. The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
98. New Grub Street by George Gissing
99. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
100. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
101. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
102. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
103. Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós
104. Adolphe by Benjamin Constant
105. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
106. The Red Room by August Strindberg
107. Hemsoborna by August Strindberg
108. The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
109. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
110. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
111. Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
112. Green Henry by Gottfried Keller
113. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
114. Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
115. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts by Joseph von Eichendorff
116. Der Stechlin by Theodor Fontane
117. The Maias by Eça de Queirós
118. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
119. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
120. Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
121. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
122. Daisy Miller by Henry James
123. Carmen by Prosper Merimee
124. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
125. News from Nowhere by William Morris
126. What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
127. The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov
128. The Tigers of Mompracem by Emilio Salgari
129. What Maisie Knew by Henry James
130. The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós
131. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Geza Gardonyi
132. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
133. I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga
134. Compassion by Benito Pérez Galdós
135. Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
136. Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov
137. Gosta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlof
138. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley
139. Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
140. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
141. Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter
142. The Viceroys by Federico De Roberto
143. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
144. Adam Bede by George Eliot
145. Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
146. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
147. Pepita Jimenez by Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano
148. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
149. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Edith Somerville & Violet Florence Martin
150. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
151. Max Havelaar by Multatuli
152. Thaïs by Anatole France
153. The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán
154. Pharaoh by Boleslaw Prus
155. Une vie by Guy de Maupassant
156. Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
157. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
158. Il Piacere by Gabriele D'Annunzio
159. Rob Roy by Walter Scott
160. La Bête humaine by Émile Zola
161. Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
162. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
163. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
164. Nana by Émile Zola
165. Senilità by Italo Svevo
166. Down There by J. K. Huysmans
167. Eline Vere by Louis Couperus
168. The Devil's Pool by George Sand
169. Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater
170. L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
171. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
172. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
173. The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience
174. She by H. Rider Haggard
175. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
176. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
177. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
178. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
179. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
180. Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
181. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
182. The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
183. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
184. The Queen's Tiara by Carl Jonas Love Almquist
185. The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
186. Lenz by Georg Buchner
187. The Talisman by Walter Scott
188. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
189. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
190. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
191. Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
192. The Bostonians by Henry James
193. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
194. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
195. The American by Henry James
196. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
197. The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
198. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
199. Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
200. Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans by Honoré de Balzac

[Tim]

Looks good at first glance, Man.

[Tim]

Do we wanna switch Karamazov and Crime and Punishment? Seems like the former is ultimately considered Dostoyevsky's magnum opus albeit not as popular as Crime and Punishment and, while not as important to Dostoyevsky's career for understandable reasons, cited as influence by just as many writers and intellectuals.

[ManPerson]

Here's what I think for 20th century

1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Trial by Franz Kafka
6. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7. The Stranger by Albert Camus
8. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
9. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
10. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
11. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
12. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
15. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
16. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
18. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
19. Beloved by Toni Morrison
20. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
21. The Ambassadors by Henry James
22. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
24. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
25. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
26. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
27. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
28. Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
29. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
30. Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
31. The Castle by Franz Kafka
32. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
33. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
34. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
35. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
36. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
37. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
38. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
39. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
40. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
41. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
42. Native Son by Richard Wright
43. Animal Farm by George Orwell
44. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
45. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
46. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
47. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
48. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
49. The Plague by Albert Camus
50. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
51. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
52. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
53. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
54. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
55. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
56. My Antonia by Willa Cather
57. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
58. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
59. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
60. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
61. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
62. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
63. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
64. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
65. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
66. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
67. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
68. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
69. And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
70. Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
73. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
74. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
75. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
76. Howards End by E.M. Forster
77. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
78. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
79. Nineteen Nineteen/The 42nd Parallel/The Big Money by John Dos Passos
80. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
81. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
82. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
83. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
84. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
85. Light in August by William Faulkner
86. Herzog by Saul Bellow
87. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
88. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
89. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
90. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
91. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
92. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
93. Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
94. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
95. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
96. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
97. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
98. Blindness by José Saramago
99. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
100. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
101. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
102. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
103. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
104. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
105. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
106. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
107. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
108. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
109. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
110. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
111. Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
112. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
113. Dune by Frank Herbert
114. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
115. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
116. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
117. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
118. Rabbit Redux by John Updike
119. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
120. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
121. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
122. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
123. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
124. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
125. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
126. The World According to Garp by John Irving
127. The Stand by Stephen King
128. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
129. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
130. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
131. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
132. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
133. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
134. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
135. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
136. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
137. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
138. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
139. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
140. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
141. Petersburg by Andrei Bely
142. Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
143. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
144. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
145. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
146. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
147. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
148. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
149. Season of Migration to the North by Al-Tayyib Salih
150. Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz
151. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
152. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
153. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
154. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
155. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
156. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
157. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
158. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M. Montgomery
159. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
160. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
161. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
162. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
163. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
164. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
165. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
166. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
167. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
168. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
169. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
170. The Fall by Albert Camus
171. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
172. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
173. White Noise by Don DeLillo
174. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
175. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
176. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
177. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
178. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
179. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
180. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
181. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
182. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
183. Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
184. Man's Fate by André Malraux
185. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
186. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
187. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
188. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
189. Watership Down by Richard Adams
190. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
191. The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
192. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
193. The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
194. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
195. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
196. Neuromancer by William Gibson
197. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
198. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
199. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
200. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
201. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
202. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
203. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
204. History by Elsa Morante

[ManPerson]

Do we wanna switch Karamazov and Crime and Punishment? Seems like the former is ultimately considered Dostoyevsky's magnum opus albeit not as popular as Crime and Punishment and, while not as important to Dostoyevsky's career for understandable reasons, cited as influence by just as many writers and intellectuals.

I'd say
Acclaim: Brothers Karamazov
Popularity: Crime and Punishment a bit more easily

It really depends on which wins influence I guess.

I'm also not sure I see it ahead of Moby Dick, which I'd give acclaim and popularity, but maybe that could move up as well.

[ManPerson]

The only suggestion I have in mind for pre-19th century is that I'd say Gulliver's Travels and Candide take acclaim and popularity (at least lasting) over Tom Jones and the former novels are both very influential themselves.