Ranked: Novel

This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: Novel


  1. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  3. This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
  4. 1984 by George Orwell
  5. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
  6. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  7. Divided Loyalties by Nilofar Shidmehr
  8. The Collector by John Fowles
  9. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  10. The Guest by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
  11. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  12. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  13. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  14. The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
  15. Jonas, or The Artist at Work by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
  16. Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
  17. You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
  18. The Voiceless by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
  19. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
  20. The Beastly Arms by Patrick Jennings
  21. The Beast by Walter Dean Myers
  22. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  23. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
  24. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  25. The Adulterous Wife by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
  26. Notes To My Biographer by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
  27. Divination by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
  28. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  29. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
  30. Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote
  31. Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
  32. The Growing Stone by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
  33. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
  34. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  35. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  36. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
  37. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  38. Saving Lilly by Peg Kehret
  39. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  40. Reunion by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
  41. War's End by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
  42. My Father's Business by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
  43. The Beginnings Of Grief by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
  44. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  45. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  46. Bartleby and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
  47. The Good Doctor by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
  48. Devotion by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
  49. The Renegade, or A Confused Mind by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
  50. The Volunteer by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
  51. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  52. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
  53. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  54. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  55. The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
  56. The River Why by David James Duncan
  57. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  58. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky