author · 5/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | #7 | #6 |
| 2 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 | #15 |
| 3 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | #6 | #11 |
| 4 | The Radetzky March | Joseph Roth | — | |
| 5 | Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | — | |
| 6 | Elective Affinities | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | — | |
| 7 | The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky | — | |
| 8 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | #42 | =52 |
| 9 | Simplicissimus | Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen | — | |
| 10 | Ragtime | EL Doctorow | #88 | — |
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