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