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12.30.2008

List of the greatest most representative ten iconic, canonic 500-plus page single-volume novels that exist



  1. Don Quixote - Cervantes
  2. Tom Jones - Fielding
  3. War and Peace - Tolstoy
  4. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
  5. Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
  6. Moby Dick - Melville
  7. Vanity Fair - Thackeray
  8. Middlemarch - Eliot
  9. Magic Mountain - Mann
  10. Ulysses - Joyce


Caveats: 1. Since it's an objective list I include possibly overrated great works such as Ulysses. 2. The title of the post says 'single-volume' to explain why Proust or Man Without Qualities or other multi-volume novels aren't included (one has to define the boundaries of a list, but nothing is lost anyway since Proust is truly overrated). 3. These obviously aren't the only great novels worth reading, but they do represent a non-arguable list of the summit works of the literary form called the novel.

Posted by c.t. at 12/30/2008

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