1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. The Liar by Martin A. Hansen ( I was told by my Danish professor that this is the best selling book of all-time in Denmark) there is no info on Wikipedia in English so I link to amazon for this one. If you want to know more, I can fill you in…
3. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
4.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
6. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
7.Snow by Orhan Pamuk
8. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
9.Dubliners byJames Joyce
10.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
11.The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
12. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
13. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
14.Cathedral by Raymond Carver
15. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
16. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Elective Affinities by Johann von Goethe
18.The Fall by Albert Camus
19.A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway
20.The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Are these in any particular order?
I organized the list with one being the best. I think the top five are all outstanding, but after that it was not easy to give the books number ratings. It is difficult to rate books, because they all have their merits. I created my list based on my overall opinion of the novels.