A Hundred Novels

1. Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of the Genji
2. Snorri Sturluson, Egil's Saga
3. Author unknown, The Saga of the People of Laxardal
4. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
5. Anonymous, The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
6. Marguerite de Navarre, The Heptameron
7. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote, vol. 1 and 2
8. Madame de La Fayette, The Princess of Cleves 
9. Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, and "The Fair Jilt"
10. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Roxana
11. Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (substitution: Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Woman)
12. Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
13. Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (addition: Francis Burney, Evelina; or, The History of a Young Woman's Entrance into the World)
14. Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
15. Voltaire, Candide (substitution: John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress)
16. Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
17. Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
18. The Marquis de Sade, Justine (subsitution: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels)
19. Sir Walter Scott, Old Morality, The Bride of Lammermoor
20. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (addition: Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abby, Crochet Castle)
21. Jane Austen, Persuasion (addition: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abby)
22. James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
23. Stendhal, The Red and the Black (addition: The Charterhouse of Parma)
24. Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
25. Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of our Times
26. Honore de Balzac, Cousin Pons and Cousin Bette (addition: The Black Sheep)
27. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (substitution: Villette) 
28. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights 
29. William Makepeace Thackerey, Vanity Fair
30. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin 
31. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
32. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables
33. Gustave Flaubert, trans. Lydia Davis, Madame Bovary
34. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (substitution: Our Mutual Friend, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations)
35. Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White, The Moonstone
36. Ivan Turgenev, Father and Sons
37. Emile Zola, Therese Raquin 
38. Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Eustace Diamonds
39. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
40. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (substitution: Theophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin)
41. George Eliot, Middlemarch (addition: Daniel Deronda)
42. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
43. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, The Awkward Age
44. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
45. Bram Stoker, Dracula 
46. Kate Chopin, The Awakening
47. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
48. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (addition: Nostromo; compare with: V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River)
49. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (addition: The Age of Innocence)
50. Max Beerbohm, The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story
51. Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
52. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
53. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
54. James Joyce, Ulysses
55. Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience
56. E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
57. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
58. Franz Kafka, The Trial
59. Herman Broch, The Sleepwalkers
60. Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Cities of the Plain, The Captive, The Fugitive, Time Regained
61. D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chattterley's Lover
62. Virginia Woolf, Orlando (addition: To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway)
63. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (substitution: Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, The Acceptance World, At Lady Molly's, Casanova's Chinese Market, The Kindly Ones, The Valley of Bones, The Soldier's Art, The Military Philosophers, Books do Furnish a Room, Temporary Kings, Hearing Secret Harmonies)
64. Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, vol. 1
65. Mikhail Sholokhov, And Quiet Flows the Don
66. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
67. Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
68. P. G. Wodehouse, The Return of Jeeves
69. T. H. White, The Once and Future King
70. Christina Stead, The Man who Loved Children
71. Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters
72. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
73. Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
74. Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, Don't Tell Alfred
75. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
76. Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine
77. Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell With Grace From the Sea
78. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (addition: Good Morning, Midnight; Quartet; After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie; Voyage in the Dark)
79. John Gardner, Grendel
80. Alice Munro, The Lives of Girls and Women 
81. Naguib Mahfouz, The Harafish
82. Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea (substitution: Graham Greene, The Quiet American) 
83. David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?
84. Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent (addition: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
85. Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
86. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (compare: Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums; Mario Vargas Lllosa, The Feast of the Goat)
87. Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
88. J. M. Coetzee, Foe (substitution: W.G. Sebauld, Austerlitz)
89. Toni Morrison, Beloved
90. A. S. Byatt, Possession (substitution: Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot)
91. Nicholson Baker, Vox (substitution: Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher, Women as Lovers)
92. Garrison Keillor, WLT: A Radio Romance (substitution: Joyce Carol Oates,  Blonde)
93. Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
94. Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
95. Francine Prose, Guided Tours of Hell 
96. Chang-rae Lee,  A Gesture Life (substitution: Paul Russell, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov)
97. Arnost Lustig, Lovely Green Eyes
98. Zadie Smith, White Teeth (substitution: Michel Houellebecq, Platform, The Map and the Territory)
99. John Updike, The Complete Henry Bech
100. Ian McEwan, Atonement (substitution: Edward St. Aubyn, Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk and At Last)
101. Jennifer Egan, Look at Me (substitution: Jonathan Franzen, Freedom: A Novel)