author · 9/10 picks in the top 100
"An impossible task! There are at least 10 more novels I would love to include. But my choices are those I first read in my adolescence and their force remains undiminished. "
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | #26 |
| 2 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 |
| 3 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | #42 |
| 4 | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | #48 |
| 5 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | #41 |
| 6 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | #30 |
| 7 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | #15 |
| 8 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | #28 |
| 9 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 |
| 10 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
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