Ten Favorite Novels

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Originally Posted by mal4mac

What makes you think we're pros? I don't sell my body on this forum :) My recommendation - try reading some recommendations from real pros - like Harold Bloom, John Carey, Clifford Fadiman, and James Wood. They don't just produce another boring list, they actually say, at book length, what might be worth reading and why.

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Some of us do read these lists, Mal. If I see a list with books on I have also rated very highly then I'm interested to see what's on the list that I have not read because the poster seems to have similar tastes to me. That does in this way make at least as much sense as believing the opinion of a critic whose tastes I know nothing about at all.

Making lists can be quite fun too. I'm not going to be critical of it.

1. The Mahabharata
2. The Bible
3. The Koran
4. The Iliad
5. The Classical Greek Dramatists in One Volume
6. The Divine Comedy
7. The Complete Works of Shakespeare in One Volume
8. Moby Dick
9. War and Peace
10. The Brothers Karamazov

I'm afraid that I misunderstood this thread, and I listed ten literary works, only three of them being novels.

In no particular order:

Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
The Catcher in the Rye
The Lord of the Rings
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
A Tale of Two Cities
Wuthering Heights

Gulliver's Travels.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
The Vicar of Wakefield.
The Wild Irish Girl.
Melmoth the Wanderer.
Ulysses.
Finnegans Wake.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
At Swim-Two-Birds.
The Ante Room.
An Beal Bocht.
A Drama in Muslin.
Esther Waters.
The Brook Kerith.

In no particular order, (except for How Green Was My Valley, which is without doubt my favorite of favorites).

How Green Was My Valley
Jane Eyre
God Knows
David Copperfield
Coming Up For Air
Dandelion Wine
Life of Pi
Till We Have Faces
Cat's Cradle
Lord of the Flies

hmmm that's a good question...

1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave
3. The Stranger by Albert
4. The Sun Also Rises by Earnest
5. The Blind Owl by Sadegh
6. Lolita by Vladimir
7. Go Tell it On the Mountain by James
8. Fathers and Sons by Ivan
9. The Doctor is Sick by Anthony
10. The Idiot by Fyodor

I can't put them in any specific order...

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Tenant - Roland Topor
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz
The Little Prince - Antoine de Sainte Exupery
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Jacob Von Gunten - Robert Walser
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moominvalley in November - Tove Jansson
Joko's Anniversary - Roland Topor

the idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karazamov FD
Candide Voltaire
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Nostromo Joseph Conrad
Don Quixote Cervantes
the Portrait of an Artist as a Young man James Joyce
The Stranger Camus
Tropic of capricorn Henry Miller
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner

"Jude" and "Tess" - Thomas Hardy
"The Netherworld" - George Gissing
"La Terre", "La Bete Humaine" and "L'Assommoir" - Emile Zola
"Les Miserables" - Victor Hugo
"The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Great Expectations" - Dickens
"Frankenstein" - Mary Shelley

Ten Favourite Novels?

1) The Picture of Dorian Gray, O. Wilde

2) The Narrow Corner, W. S. Maugham

3) Heart of Darkness, J. Conrad

4) Spring Snow, Y. Mishima

5) Sister Carrie, T. Dreiser

6) Madame Bovary, G. Flaubert

7) Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence

8) Against Nature, J.-K. Huysmans

9) A Farewell to Arms, E. Hemingway

10) Through the Looking Glass, L. Carroll

From the limited amount that I have read so far:

1. Phantom of the Opera
2. Frankenstein
3. To Kill A Mockingbird
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Great Expectations
6. War and Peace
7. The Bell Jar
8. Gone With the Wind
9. Little Women
10. Jane Eyre

I need to read more

1.Crime and Punishment
2.Tale of Two Cities
3.1984
4.Notes From The Underground
5.Blood Meridian
6.The Invisible Man
7.Suttree
8.Tortilla Flat
9.To Kill a Mockingbird
10. Slaughterhouse-Five

1. A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov

2. Chronicles of Travnik by Ivo Andrić

3. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

4. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

5. Middlemarch by George Eliot

6. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

7. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

8. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

9. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

10. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Latin American Literature

1. Ficciones and El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
2. Sobre Heroes y Tumbas by Ernesto Sabato
3. La Invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
4. Rayuela by Julio Cortazar
5. La Región Más Transparente by Carlos Fuentes
6. El Llano en Llamas and Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
7. El Astilladero by Juan Carlos Onetti
8. Cien Años de Soledad by Gabriel García Marquez
9. Los Detectives Salvajes by Roberto Bolaño
10. Paradiso by José Lezama Lima