Top 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
I haven't read it all. in fact I read less than half of the books mentioned here. It's through extensive research and browsing the web that I include novels which I haven't read that elicited great response by both critics and readers. This is an arguably great guide for readers, beginners or otherwise.
100. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler (1903)
99. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole (1764)
98. Slaughtehouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969)
97. The Trial - Franz Kafka (1925)
96. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell (1848)
95. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (1912-22)
94. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers (1903)
93. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (1877)
92. Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith (1892)
91. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene (1948)
90. Notre Dame de Paris - Victor-Marie Hugo (1831)
89. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (1939)
88. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
87. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (1859)
86. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe (1794)
85. On the Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)
84. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis (1953)
83. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells (1889)
82. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
81. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevski (1880)
80. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (1874)
79. Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson (1740)
78. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan (1915)
77. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres (1994)
76. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton (1945)
75. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne(1870)
74. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
73. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (1950)
72. Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally (1982)
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)
70. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (1908)
69. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (1945)
68. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer (1948)
67. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane (1895)
66. The Ambassadors - Henry James (1903)
65. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (1874)
64. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence (1928)
63. The Hobbitt - J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
62. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (1820)
61. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1902)
60. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster (1924)
59. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells (1895)
58. The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903)
57. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)
56. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White (1952)
55. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (1954-55)
54. Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987)
53. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
52. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)
51. The Color Purple - Alice Walker (1982)
50. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
49. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev (1862)
48. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927)
47. Native Son - Richard Wright (1940)
46. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (1929)
45. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1951)
44. Animal Farm - George Orwell (1954)
43. Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope (1857)
42. The Red and the Black - Stendhal (1831)
41. Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac (1834)
40. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (1845)
39. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
38. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
37. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (1894)
36. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe (1722)
35. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (1951)
34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (1954)
33. Lolita - Valdimir Nabokov (1955)
32. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1961)
31. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
30. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1891)
29. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861)
28. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949)
27. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
26. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevski (1866)
25. Middlemarch - George Eliot (1872)
24. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (1868)
23. Emma - Jane Austen (1816)
22. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson (1747-48)
21. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
20. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1865)
19. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (1847-48)
18. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (1847)
17. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (1851)
16. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (1868)
15. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865)
14. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
13. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne (1760)
12. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1816)
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1847)
10. Ulysses - James Joyce (1922)
9. The Tale of Genji - Shikibu Murasaki (c. 1020)
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1884)
7. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1857)
6. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850)
5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813)
4. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding (1749)
3. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (1726)
2. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1719)
1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1604)