/lit/'s Top 100 Novels of All Time – 2020

1. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (77)
2. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (42)
3. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (37)
4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (32)
5. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (29)
6. Ulysses - James Joyce (27)
7. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (25)
8. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (24)
9. Stoner - John E. Williams (23)
10. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (20)
11. Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (20)
12. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (20)
13. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (19)
14. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (18)
15. The Trial - Franz Kafka (17)
16. The Stranger - Albert Camus (17)
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (15)
18. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (14)
19. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (13)
20. The Golden Bowl - Henry James (13)
21. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (13)
22. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (13)
23. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (12)
24. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (12)
25. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov (11)
26. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline (11)
27. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (11)
28. The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein (11)
29. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (10)
30. The Flanders Road - Claude Simon (10)
31. No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai (10)
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (10)
33. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner (9)
34. Voss - Patrick White (9)
35. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (9)
36. Middlemarch - George Eliot (8)
37. Trilogy - Samuel Beckett (8)
38. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (8)
39. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (8)
40. Extinction - Thomas Bernhard (8)
41. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (8)
42. 1984 - George Orwell (8)
43. Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford (7)
44. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (7)
45. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne (7)
46. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (7)
47. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (7)
48. The Grass - Claude Simon (7)
49. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (7)
50. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol (7)
51. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil (7)
52. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (7)
53. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (7)
54. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (7)
55. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (7)
56. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (7)
57. Hunger - Knut Hamsun (6)
58. Riders in the Chariot - Patrick White (6)
59. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James (6)
60. Kokoro - Natsume Soseki (6)
61. The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe (6)
62. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce (6)
63. A Glastonbury Romance - John Cowper Powys (6)
64. A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov (6)
65. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (6)
66. Gargantua and Pantagruel - François Rabelais (6)
67. Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima (5)
68. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (5)
69. JR - William Gaddis (5)
70. Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon (5)
71. Independent People - Halldor Laxness (5)
72. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (5)
73. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (5)
74. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (5)
75. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun (5)
76. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (5)
77. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (5)
78. Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar (5)
79. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (5)
80. House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski (5)
81. Candide - Voltaire (4)
82. A Rebours - Joris-Karl Huysmans (4)
83. Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco (4)
84. Dune - Frank Herbert (4)
85. The Waves - Virginia Woolf (4)
86. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence (4)
87. The Sailor Who Fell with Grace from the Sea - Yukio Mishima (4)
88. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (4)
89. The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni (4)
90. The Cannibal - John Hawkes (4)
91. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (4)
92. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann (4)
93. The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch (4)
94. Bleak House - Charles Dickens (4)
95. The Red and the Black - Stendhal (4)
96. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (4)
97. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh (4)
98. Death on Credit - Louis-Ferdinand Céline (4)
99. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (4)
100. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy (4)
101. Demons - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (4)
102. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding (4)
103. The Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq (4)
104. Underworld - Don DeLillo (4)
105. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem (4)
106. Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo (4)
107. Libra - Don DeLillo (4)
108. The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch (4)
109. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (4)
110. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (4)
111. White Noise - Don DeLillo (4)
112. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse (4)
113. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (4)
114. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy (4)
115. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (3)
116. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner (3)
117. If on a winter’s night a traveler - Italo Calvino (3)
118. Germinal - Émile Zola (3)
119. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (3)
120. Woodcutters - Thomas Bernhard (3)
121. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick (3)
122. Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (3)
123. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad (3)
124. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift (3)
125. Conversations in the Cathedral - Mario Vargas Llosa (3)
126. The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth (3)
127. Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec (3)
128. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino (3)
129. Second Skin - John Hawkes (3)
130. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry (3)
131. World Light - Halldor Laxness (3)
132. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (3)
133. The Story of the Stone - Cao Xuequin (3)
134. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (3)
135. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien (3)
136. Petersburg - Andrei Bely (3)
137. 2666 - Roberto Bolaño (3)
138. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (3)
139. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wilhelm von Goethe (3)
140. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen (3)
141. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon (3)
142. The Moon and the Bonfire - Cesare Pavese (3)
143. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck (3)
144. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot (3)
145. Les Deux Étendards - Lucien Rebatet (3)
146. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (3)
147. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev (3)