ListofNovels


 * ~ Rank ||~ Title of Great Novel ||~ Year ||~ Author ||~ Religious Affiliation of Author ||
 * 1 || //Don Quixote// || 1605, 1630 || Miguel de Cervantes || Catholic ||
 * 2 || //War and Peace// || 1869 || Leo Tolstoy || Russian Orthodox ||
 * 3 || //Ulysses// || 1922 || James Joyce || Catholic (lapsed) ||
 * 4 || //In Search of Lost Time// || 1913-27 || Marcel Proust || [|Jewish Catholic] ||
 * 5 || //The Brothers Karamazov// || 1880 || Feodor Dostoevsky || Russian Orthodox ||
 * 6 || //Moby-Dick// || 1851 || Herman Melville || Transcendentalist ||
 * 7 || //Madame Bovary// || 1857 || Gustave Flaubert || Catholic ||
 * 8 || //Middlemarch// || 1871-72 || George Eliot || Anglican; agnostic ||
 * 9 || //The Magic Mountain// || 1924 || Thomas Mann || [|Lutheran] ||
 * 10 || //The Tale of Genji// || 11th Century || Murasaki Shikibu || Buddhist/Shinto culture ||
 * 11 || //Emma// || 1816 || Jane Austen || Anglican ||
 * 12 || //Bleak House// || 1852-53 || Charles Dickens || Anglican ||
 * 13 || //Anna Karenina// || 1877 || Leo Tolstoy || Russian Orthodox ||
 * 14 || //Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// || 1884 || Mark Twain || [|Presbyterian] ||
 * 15 || //Tom Jones// || 1749 || Henry Fielding ||  ||
 * 16 || //Great Expectations// || 1860-61 || Charles Dickens || Anglican ||
 * 17 || //Absalom, Absalom!// || 1936 || William Faulkner || [|Presbyterian] ||
 * 18 || //The Ambassadors// || 1903 || Henry James || Anglican ||
 * 19 || //One Hundred Years of Solitude// || 1967 || Gabriel Garcia Marquez || Catholic ||
 * 20 || //The Great Gatsby// || 1925 || F. Scott Fitzgerald || Catholic ||
 * 21 || //To The Lighthouse// || 1927 || Virginia Woolf || Neo-pagan ||
 * 22 || //Crime and Punishment// || 1866 || Feodor Dostoevsky || Russian Orthodox ||
 * 23 || //The Sound and the Fury// || 1929 || William Faulkner || [|Presbyterian] ||
 * 24 || //Vanity Fair// || 1847-48 || William Makepeace Thackeray ||  ||
 * 25 || //Invisible Man// || 1952 || Ralph Ellison ||  ||
 * 26 || //Finnegans Wake// || 1939 || James Joyce || Catholic (lapsed) ||
 * 27 || //The Man Without Qualities// || 1930-43 || Robert Musil || Catholic ||
 * 28 || //Gravity's Rainbow// || 1973 || Thomas Pynchon || [|Catholic; agnostic] ||
 * 29 || //The Portrait of a Lady// || 1881 || Henry James || Anglican ||
 * 30 || //Women in Love// || 1920 || D. H. Lawrence ||  ||
 * 31 || //The Red and the Black// || 1830 || Stendhal || Catholic ||
 * 32 || //Tristram Shandy// || 1760-67 || Laurence Sterne || [|Anglican (Church of Ireland clergyman)] ||
 * 33 || //Dead Souls// || 1842 || Nikolai Gogol || Russian Orthodox ||
 * 34 || //Tess of the D'Urbervilles// || 1891 || Thomas Hardy ||  ||
 * 35 || //Buddenbrooks// || 1901 || Thomas Mann || [|Lutheran] ||
 * 36 || //Le Pere Goriot// || 1835 || Honore de Balzac || Catholic ||
 * 37 || //A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man// || 1916 || James Joyce || Catholic (lapsed) ||
 * 38 || //Wuthering Heights// || 1847 || Emily Bronte || Anglican ||
 * 39 || //The Tin Drum// || 1959 || Gunter Grass || Catholic ||
 * 40 || //Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable// || 1951-53 || Samuel Beckett || [|Church of Ireland (Anglican)] ||
 * 41 || //Pride and Prejudice// || 1813 || Jane Austen || Anglican ||
 * 42 || //The Scarlet Letter// || 1850 || Nathaniel Hawthorne || Transcendentalist ||
 * 43 || //Fathers and Sons// || 1862 || Ivan Turgenev || Russian Orthodox; agnostic ||
 * 44 || //Nostromo// || 1904 || Joseph Conrad || Catholic; atheist ||
 * 45 || //Beloved// || 1987 || Toni Morrison ||  ||
 * 46 || //An American Tragedy// || 1925 || Theodore Dreiser || [|Catholic; Congregationalist; Chrisitan Science] ||
 * 47 || //Lolita// || 1955 || Vladimir Nabokov || [|Russian Orthodox] ||
 * 48 || //The Golden Notebook// || 1962 || Doris Lessing ||  ||
 * 49 || //Clarissa// || 1747-48 || Samuel Richardson ||  ||
 * 50 || //Dream of the Red Chamber// || 1791 || Cao Xueqin ||  ||
 * 51 || //The Trial// || 1925 || Franz Kafka || Jewish ||
 * 52 || //Jane Eyre// || 1847 || Charlotte Bronte || Anglican ||
 * 53 || //The Red Badge of Courage// || 1895 || Stephen Crane || Methodist ||
 * 54 || //The Grapes of Wrath// || 1939 || John Steinbeck || [|Episcopalian] ||
 * 55 || //Petersburg// || 1916/1922 || Andrey Bely || Russian Orthodox; Theosophy; Spiritualism ||
 * 56 || //Things Fall Apart// || 1958 || Chinue Achebe ||  ||
 * 57 || //The Princess of Cleves// || 1678 || Madame de Lafayette ||  ||
 * 58 || //The Stranger// || 1942 || Albert Camus || Catholic; Existentialism ||
 * 59 || //My Antonia// || 1918 || Willa Cather || Episcopalian ||
 * 60 || //The Counterfeiters// || 1926 || Andre Gide ||  ||
 * 61 || //The Age of Innocence// || 1920 || Edith Wharton ||  ||
 * 62 || //The Good Soldier// || 1915 || Ford Madox Ford || [|Catholic; agnostic] ||
 * 63 || //The Awakening// || 1899 || Kate Chopin || Catholic ||
 * 64 || //A Passage to India// || 1924 || E. M. Forster ||  ||
 * 65 || //Herzog// || 1964 || Saul Bellow || [|Orthodox Jew (lapsed); Anthroposophist] ||
 * 66 || //Germinal// || 1855 || Emile Zola || Catholic ||
 * 67 || //Call It Sleep// || 1934 || Henry Roth || Jewish ||
 * 68 || //U.S.A. Trilogy// || 1930-38 || John Dos Passos || Catholic ||
 * 69 || //Hunger// || 1890 || Knut Hamsun ||  ||
 * 70 || //Berlin Alexanderplatz// || 1929 || Alfred Doblin || Catholic ||
 * 71 || //Cities of Salt// || 1984-89 || 'Abd al-Rahman Munif ||  ||
 * 72 || //The Death of Artemio Cruz// || 1962 || Carlos Fuentes || Catholic ||
 * 73 || //A Farewell to Arms// || 1929 || Ernest Hemingway || Catholic ||
 * 74 || //Brideshead Revisited// || 1945 || Evelyn Waugh || Catholic ||
 * 75 || //The Last Chronicle of Barset// || 1866-67 || Anthony Trollope || Anglican ||
 * 76 || //The Pickwick Papers// || 1836-67 || Charles Dickens || Anglican ||
 * 77 || //Robinson Crusoe// || 1719 || Daniel Defoe || [|Protestant Dissenter (Presbyterian)] ||
 * 78 || //The Sorrows of Young Werther// || 1774 || Johann Wolfgang von Goethe || [|Deist] ||
 * 79 || //Candide// || 1759 || Voltaire || [|raised in Jansenism; later Deist] ||
 * 80 || //Native Son// || 1940 || Richard Wright || [|Seventh-day Adventist; Communist] ||
 * 81 || //Under the Volcano// || 1947 || Malcolm Lowry || Methodist; Anglican; agnostic ||
 * 82 || //Oblomov// || 1859 || Ivan Goncharov ||  ||
 * 83 || //Their Eyes Were Watching God// || 1937 || Zora Neale Hurston ||  ||
 * 84 || //Waverley// || 1814 || Sir Walter Scott || Anglican ||
 * 85 || //Snow Country// || 1937, 1948 || Kawabata Yasunari ||  ||
 * 86 || //Nineteen Eighty-Four// || 1949 || George Orwell || Anglican ||
 * 87 || //The Betrothed// || 1827, 1840 || Alessandro Manzoni || Catholic ||
 * 88 || //The Last of the Mohicans// || 1826 || James Fenimore Cooper || Episcopalian ||
 * 89 || //Uncle Tom's Cabin// || 1852 || Harriet Beecher Stowe || Episcopalian; Congregationalist ||
 * 90 || //Les Miserables// || 1862 || Victor Hugo || Catholic ||
 * 91 || //On the Road// || 1957 || Jack Kerouac || [|Catholic; Buddhism] ||
 * 92 || //Frankenstein// || 1818 || Mary Shelley ||  ||
 * 93 || //The Leopard// || 1958 || Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa || [|Catholic] ||
 * 94 || //The Catcher in the Rye// || 1951 || J.D. Salinger || [|Jewish Catholic; Scientologist] ||
 * 95 || //The Woman in White// || 1860 || Wilkie Collins ||  ||
 * 96 || //The Good Soldier Svejk// || 1921-23 || Jaroslav Hasek || Catholic ||
 * 97 || //Dracula// || 1897 || Bram Stoker || Church of Ireland (Anglican) ||
 * 98 || //The Three Musketeers// || 1844 || Alexandre Dumas || agnostic; Catholic ||
 * 99 || //The Hound of Baskervilles// || 1902 || Arthur Conan Doyle || Catholic; Spiritualist ||
 * 100 || //Gone with the Wind// || 1936 || Margaret Mitchell || Catholic ||


 * ~ Title ||~ Author ||~ Religious Affiliation ||
 * The Adventures of Augie March || Saul Bellow || [|Orthodox Jew (lapsed); Anthroposophist] ||
 * All the King's Men || Robert Penn Warren ||  ||
 * American Pastoral || Philip Roth || Jewish ||
 * An American Tragedy || Theodore Dreiser || [|Catholic; Congregationalist; Chrisitan Science] ||
 * Animal Farm || George Orwell || Anglican ||
 * Appointment in Samarra || John O'Hara ||  ||
 * Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret || Judy Blume || Jewish ||
 * The Assistant || Bernard Malamud || Jewish ||
 * At Swim-Two-Birds || Flann O'Brien ||  ||
 * Atonement || Ian McEwan || [|atheist] ||
 * Beloved || Toni Morrison ||  ||
 * The Berlin Stories || Christopher Isherwood || [|Hindu (Vedanta Society)] ||
 * The Big Sleep || Raymond Chandler ||  ||
 * The Blind Assassin || Margaret Atwood || Humanist ||
 * Blood Meridian || Cormac McCarthy || Catholic ||
 * Brideshead Revisited || Evelyn Waugh || Catholic ||
 * The Bridge of San Luis Rey || Thornton Wilder || Congregationalist ||
 * Call It Sleep || Henry Roth || Jewish ||
 * Catch-22 || Joseph Heller || Jewish ||
 * The Catcher in the Rye || J.D. Salinger || [|Jewish Catholic] ||
 * A Clockwork Orange || Anthony Burgess || Catholic ||
 * The Confessions of Nat Turner || William Styron ||  ||
 * The Corrections || Jonathan Franzen ||  ||
 * The Crying of Lot 49 || Thomas Pynchon || [|Catholic; agnostic] ||
 * A Dance to the Music of Time || Anthony Powell ||  ||
 * The Day of the Locust || Nathanael West || Jewish ||
 * Death Comes for the Archbishop || Willa Cather || Episcopalian ||
 * A Death in the Family || James Agee || [|Episcopalian] ||
 * The Death of the Heart || Elizabeth Bowen || [|Church of Ireland (Anglican)] ||
 * Deliverance || James Dickey ||  ||
 * Dog Soldiers || Robert Stone ||  ||
 * Falconer || John Cheever ||  ||
 * The French Lieutenant's Woman || John Fowles || Atheist ||
 * The Golden Notebook || Doris Lessing ||  ||
 * Go Tell it on the Mountain || James Baldwin ||  ||
 * Gone With the Wind || Margaret Mitchell || Catholic ||
 * The Grapes of Wrath || John Steinbeck || [|Episcopalian] ||
 * Gravity's Rainbow || Thomas Pynchon || [|Catholic; agnostic] ||
 * The Great Gatsby || F. Scott Fitzgerald || Catholic ||
 * A Handful of Dust || Evelyn Waugh || Catholic ||
 * The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter || Carson McCullers ||  ||
 * The Heart of the Matter || Graham Greene || [|Catholic] ||
 * Herzog || Saul Bellow || [|Orthodox Jew (lapsed); Anthroposophist] ||
 * Housekeeping || Marilynne Robinson ||  ||
 * A House for Mr. Biswas || V.S. Naipaul || Hindu ||
 * I, Claudius || Robert Graves || occult ||
 * Infinite Jest || David Foster Wallace ||  ||
 * Invisible Man || Ralph Ellison ||  ||
 * Light in August || William Faulkner || [|Presbyterian] ||
 * The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe || C.S. Lewis || [|Anglican] ||
 * Lolita || Vladimir Nabokov || [|Russian Orthodox] ||
 * Lord of the Flies || William Golding ||  ||
 * The Lord of the Rings || J.R.R. Tolkien || [|Catholic] ||
 * Loving || Henry Green ||  ||
 * Lucky Jim || Kingsley Amis ||  ||
 * The Man Who Loved Children || Christina Stead ||  ||
 * Midnight's Children || Salman Rushdie || Islam (lapsed); atheist) ||
 * Money || Martin Amis || agnostic ||
 * The Moviegoer || Walker Percy || [|raised agnostic Presbyterian; Catholic convert] ||
 * Mrs. Dalloway || Virginia Woolf || Neo-pagan ||
 * Naked Lunch || William Burroughs ||  ||
 * Native Son || Richard Wright || [|Seventh-day Adventist; Communist] ||
 * Neuromancer || William Gibson ||  ||
 * Never Let Me Go || Kazuo Ishiguro ||  ||
 * 1984 || George Orwell || Anglican ||
 * On the Road || Jack Kerouac || [|Catholic; Buddhism] ||
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest || Ken Kesey ||  ||
 * The Painted Bird || Jerzy Kosinski || Jewish ||
 * Pale Fire || Vladimir Nabokov || [|Russian Orthodox] ||
 * A Passage to India || E.M. Forster ||  ||
 * Play It As It Lays || Joan Didion ||  ||
 * Portnoy's Complaint || Philip Roth || Jewish ||
 * Possession || A.S. Byatt || Quaker (lapsed) ||
 * The Power and the Glory || Graham Greene || [|Catholic] ||
 * The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie || Muriel Spark || Catholic ||
 * Rabbit, Run || John Updike || Lutheran ||
 * Ragtime || E.L. Doctorow || Jewish ||
 * The Recognitions || William Gaddis ||  ||
 * Red Harvest || Dashiell Hammett ||  ||
 * Revolutionary Road || Richard Yates ||  ||
 * The Sheltering Sky || Paul Bowles ||  ||
 * Slaughterhouse-Five || Kurt Vonnegut || [|Humanist] ||
 * Snow Crash || Neal Stephenson || [|?] ||
 * The Sot-Weed Factor || John Barth ||  ||
 * The Sound and the Fury || William Faulkner || [|Presbyterian] ||
 * The Sportswriter || Richard Ford ||  ||
 * The Spy Who Came in From the Cold || John le Carre ||  ||
 * The Sun Also Rises || Ernest Hemingway || Catholic ||
 * Their Eyes Were Watching God || Zora Neale Hurston ||
 * Things Fall Apart || Chinua Achebe ||  ||
 * To Kill a Mockingbird || Harper Lee ||  ||
 * To the Lighthouse || Virginia Woolf || Neo-pagan ||
 * Tropic of Cancer || Henry Miller ||  ||
 * Ubik || Philip K. Dick || [|Episcopalian] ||
 * Under the Net || Iris Murdoch ||  ||
 * Under the Volcano || Malcolm Lowry || Methodist; Anglican; agnostic ||
 * Watchmen || Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons || [|?] ||
 * White Noise || Don DeLillo || Catholic ||
 * White Teeth || Zadie Smith ||  ||
 * Wide Sargasso Sea || Jean Rhys ||  ||