This is a list of the my favorite novels I have encountered (so far) with links to their respective reviews as they are written. There will be very substantial novels missing until I have time to study them properly so disregard major omissions, this is more a ranking of what I have happened to study thus far. Also notably missing will be nonfiction, poetry, plays, and short stories, all to be found elsewhere.
- Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (1620)
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick (1851)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot (1869)
- James Joyce - Ulysses (1920)
- Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (1867)
- Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time (1913)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)
- Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (1985)
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea (1938)
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
- Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (1818)
- Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises (1926)
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (1952)
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932)
- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (1963)
- Albert Camus - The Stranger (1942)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)
- Joseph Heller - Catch-22 (1961)
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (1954)
- Voltaire - Candide (1759)
- Stendhal - The Red and the Black (1830)
- Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
- Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (1873)
- Samuel Johnson - The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)
- Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (1927)
- George Orwell - Animal Farm (1945)
- Franz Kafka - The Trial (1925)
- Bram Stoker - Dracula (1897)
- Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls (1842)
- Doris May Lessing - The Golden Notebook (1962)
- Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks (1901)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons or The Possessed (1872)
- Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms (1929)
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit (1937)
- Isaac Asimov - Foundation (1951)
- Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
- Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood (1987)
- Charles Dickens - Bleak House (1852)
- Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders (1722)
- Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye (1953)
- Pierre Choderlos de Lacios - Les Liasons dangereuses (1782)
- Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye (1970)
- Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
- John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
- David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest (1996)
- Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities (1972)