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Collection of The Best Novels of All Time
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items There are many ways you can do when you want to entertain yourself, one of which is by reading the best novels of all time. Reading novels could be an option because it can help someone to have a wider imagination.
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest works of literature in existence and is still widely read by modern audiences.
The Odyssey
Moby-Dick or The Whale is a novel written by American writer Herman Melville in 1851. This work tells the story of the adventures of the character (named Ishmael) in following the voyage of a whaling ship led by an obsessive captain named Captain Aha...
Moby Dick
This novel is a literary work written by Marcel Proust in French from 1906 until his death in 1922. This novel was packaged in seven volumes of stories which were officially published to the general public from 1913 to 1927. In Search of Lost Time te...
In Search of Lost Time
Don Quixote is considered the world's first modern novel based on the classic Spanish story by Miguel de Cervantes. The novel was published in 2 volumes, in 1605 and 1615. This book tells the story of Alonso Quixano, a Spanish nobleman who imagines h...
Don Quixote
This novel is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. War and Peace is considered one of Tolstoy's finest literary achie...
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, what...
Ulysses
The Great Gatsby is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American author. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in New York City and Long Island during the summer of 1922. The novel depicts a period that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age".
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. The novel tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, in which José Arcadio Buendía founded the (fictitious) town of Macondo. This novel is often ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Lolita is a novel written by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov. This novel tells the story of a middle-aged man, Humbert (pseudonym) who likes his stepdaughter, a 12 year old girl named Dolores (Lolita).
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or often abbreviated to Hamlet, is a tragedy play by William Shakespeare written in 1599-1601. This is a drama novel about one of Shakespeare's famous tragedies.
Hamlet
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf depicts a day in the life of an English socialite named Clarissa Dalloway.
Mrs. Dalloway
Originally published under the title Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, Madame Bovary is the first novel by French writer and writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856.
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, written from 1308 to 1320, exactly one year before the author's death in 1321. This poem is widely considered a superior work in Italian literature, and is considered one of the greatest ...
The Divine Comedy
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a novel published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell (to disguise the fact that the author was a woman).
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics): Charlotte Brontë
This novel, which has become a literary classic, discusses racism in South America through the innocent eyes of a smart girl named Jean Louise ("Scout") Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird