The Greatest Literature of All Time - Novels
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c. 1020 The Tale of Genji Shikibu Murasaki Japan Novel
1516 Utopia • Thomas More England
1532 Pantagruel Francois Rabelais France
1534 Gargantua Francois Rabelais France
1588 Oroonoko Aphra Behn England
1604 The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Spain
1699 The Adventures of Telemachus François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon France
1719 Robinson Crusoe • Daniel Dafoe England
1722 Moll Flanders Daniel Dafoe England
1726 Gulliver’s Travels • Jonathan Swift England
1731-41 The Life of Marianne Pierre Marivaux France
1731 Manon Lescant l’Abbé (Antoine François) Prévost France
1740 Pamela Samuel Richardson England
1742 Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding England
1749 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling • Henry Fielding England
1751 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Tobias Smollett England
1759 Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Samuel Johnson England
1760 Tristram Shandy • Laurence Sterne England
1764 The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole England
1766 The Vicar of Wakefield • Oliver Goldsmith England
1771 Humphrey Clinker Tobias Smollett England
1778 Evelina Fanny Burney England
1794 The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliff England
1798 Wieland Charles Brockden Brown United States
1799 Ormond Charles Brockden Brown United States
1813 Pride and Prejudice • Jane Austen England
1814 Waverly Walter Scott Scotland
1814 Mansfield Park Jane Austen England
1815 Sense and Sensibility • Jane Austen England
1816 Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley England
1816 Emma • Jane Austen England
1818 Northanger Abbey Jane Austen England
1820 Ivanhoe • Walter Scott Scotland
1820 Melmouth the Wanderer Charles Maturin Ireland
1825 The Talisman Walter Scott Scotland
1826 The Last of the Mohicans James Fennimore Cooper United States
1831 Scarlet and Black Stendhal France
1831 Notre Dame de Paris Victor-Marie Hugo France
1832 Wacousta John Richardson Canada
1834 Old Goriot Honore de Balzac France
1834 The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward Bulwer-Lytton England
1836 The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick • Thomas Chandler Haliburton Canada
1836 The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton Canada
1839 The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal France
1839 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens England
1840 A Hero of Our Time • Mikhail Lermontov Russia
1841 The Deerslayer James Fennimore Cooper United States
1842 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol Russia
1843 Consuelo George Sand France
1843 A Christmas Carol • Charles Dickens England
1844 The Count of Monte-Cristo Alexandre Dumas France
1845 The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas France
1845 Carmen Prosper Mérimée France
1846 La Mare au Diable George Sand France
1846 The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas France
1847 Jane Eyre • Charlotte Bronte England
1847 Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte England
1847 Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray England
1848 Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell England
1850 The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas France
1850 David Copperfield • Charles Dickens England
1850 The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne United States
1851 Moby Dick • Herman Melville United States
1852 A Sportsman’s Sketches Ivan Turgenev Russia
1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe United States
1853 Les Chatiments Victor-Marie Hugo France
1853 Bleak House • Charles Dickens England
1854 Hard Times • Charles Dickens England
1857 Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert France
1857 Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope England
1857 Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens England
1859 Oblomov Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov Russia
1859 A Tale of Two Cities • Charles Dickens England
1860 The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot England
1860 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins England
1861 Great Expectations • Charles Dickens England
1861 Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot England
1862 Les Miserables Victor-Marie Hugo France
1862 Fathers and Sons • Ivan Turgenev Russia
1864 Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne France
1865 War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy Russia
1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland • Lewis Carroll England
1866 Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevski Russia
1866 Poems and Ballads Algernon Swinburne England
1868 The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins England
1868 Little Women Louisa May Alcott United States
1869 Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert France
1870 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea • Jules Verne France
1872 Middlemarch • George Eliot England
1872 Erewhon • Samuel Butler England
1873 Around the World in Eighty Days • Jules Verne France
1874 Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy Russia
1874 Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy England
1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • Mark Twain United States
1879 Jacques Vingtras Jules Valles France
1879 Daisy Miller Henry James England
1880 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevski Russia
1880 Ben-Hur Lew Wallace United States
1883 Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson Scotland
1884 Cavalleria Rusticana Giovanni Verga Italy
1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • Mark Twain United States
1885 Germinal Émile Zola France
1886 The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy England
1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Scotland
1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court • Mark Twain United States
1891 Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy England
1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde England
1894 Esther Waters • George Moore Ireland
1895 The Time Machine • H.G. Wells England
1895 The Red Badge of Courage • Stephen Crane United States
1896 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy England
1896 The Bostonians Henry James England
1898 The War of the Worlds • H.G. Wells England
1900 Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family Thomas Mann Germany
1900 Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad England
1900 Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser United States
1900 Monsieur Beaucaire Booth Tarkington United States
1901 Resurrection • Leo Tolstoy Russia
1901 Kim • Rudyard Kipling England
1902 The Man from Glengarry Ralph Connor Canada
1902 Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad England
1902 The Hound of the Baskervilles • Arthur Conan Doyle England
1903 The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler England
1903 The Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers England
1903 The Ambassadors Henry James United States
1903 The Call of the Wild • Jack London United States
1904 The Imperialist • Sarah Jeannette Duncan Canada
1904 Nostromo Joseph Conrad England
1904 The Sea Wolfe • Jack London United States
1905 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton United States
1906 The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Anatole France France
1906-28 The Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy England
1906 The Jungle Upton Sinclair United States
1907 Mother • Maxim Gorky Russia
1907 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad England
1907 The Longest Journey E.M. Forster England
1908 Anne of Green Gables • Lucy Maude Montgomery Canada
1908 Tono Bungay H.G. Wells England
1908 The Old Wives’ Tale Arnold Bennett England
1908 A Room With a View E.M. Forster England
1908 The Man Who Was Thursday • G.K. Chesterton England
1909 Penguin Island Anatole France France
1910 Howards End • E.M. Forster England
1911 Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad England
1911-14 Hail and Farewell George Moore Ireland
1911 Ethan Frome • Edith Wharton United States
1912 Death in Venice • Thomas Mann Germany
1912 The Gods are Athirst Anatole France France
1912-22 Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust France
1912 Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm England
1912 Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey United States
1913 The Lost Domain Henry Alain-Fournier France
1913 Le Grand Meaulnes Henri Alain-Fournier France
1913 Son and Lovers • D.H. Lawrence England
1914 Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs United States
1915 The Rainbow • D.H. Lawrence England
1915 The Good Soldier Ford Maddox Ford England
1915 Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maughham England
1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps • John Buchan England
1916 Under Fire • Henri Barbusse France
1916 The Underdogs Mariano Azuela Mexico
1916 Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Czechoslovakia
1916 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce Ireland
1916 The Brook Kerith George Moore Ireland
1918 My Ántonia • Willa Cather United States
1918 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington United States
1919 The True Story of Ah Q • Lu Hsun China
1919 The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maughham England
1919 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson United States
1920-23 The Good Soldier Schweik Jaroslav Hasek Czechoslovakia
1920 Cheri Colette France
1920 Main Street • Sinclair Lewis United States
1920 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton United States
1921 Maria Chapdelaine • Louis Hemon Canada
1921 Women in Love • D.H. Lawrence England
1921 Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley England
1921 Héloïse and Abelard George Moore Ireland
1922 The Kiss of the Leper Francois Mauriac France
1922 Ulysses • James Joyce Ireland
1922 The Worm Ouroboros E.R. Eddison England
1922 Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis United States
1922 The Facade Edith Sitwell United States
1923 The Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo Italy
1923 Chapeyev • Dmitry Furmanov Russia
1924 The Magic Mountain • Thomas Mann Germany
1924 The Iron Flood • Alexander Serafimovich Russia
1924 A Passage to India • E.M. Forster England
1924 So Big • Edna Ferber United States
1924 Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman Melville United States
1925 Settlers of the Marsh • Frederick Philip Grove Canada
1925 The Trial • Franz Kafka Czechoslovakia
1925 Mrs Dalloway • Virginia Woolf England
1925 Parade’s End Ford Maddox Ford England
1925 Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser United States
1925 Arrowsmith • Sinclair Lewis United States
1925 The Great Gatsby • F. Scott Fitzgerald United States
1926 The Castle • Franz Kafka Czechoslovakia
1926 The Counterfeiters André Gide France
1926 The Sun Also Rises • Ernest Hemingway United States
1927 Jalna Mazo de la Roche Canada
1927 The Master’s Wife Andrew MacPhail Canada
1927 Steppenwolf • Herman Hesse Germany
1927 To the Lighthouse • Virginia Woolf England
1927 Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis United States
1927 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather United States
1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder United States
1928 Strange Fugitive • Morley Callaghan Canada
1928 All Quiet on the Western Front • Erich Maria Remarque Germany
1928 Nadja André Breton France
1928 And Quiet Flows the Don • Mikhail Sholokov Russia
1928 Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence England
1928 Point Counterpoint • Aldous Huxley England
1929 White Narcissus • Raymond Knister Canada
1929 The Time of Indifference Alberto Moravia Italy
1929 Children of the Game Jean Cocteau France
1929 Peter the Great Alexy Tolstoy Russia
1929 A High Wind in Jamaica • Richard Hughes England
1929 A Farewell to Arms • Ernest Hemingway United States
1929 The Sound and the Fury • William Faulkner United States
1929 Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe United States
1930 As I Lay Dying • William Faulkner United States
1930 The Maltese Falcon • Dashiell Hammett United States
1930 Destry Rides Again • Max Brand United States
1930-36 USA • John Dos Passos United States
1931 Night Flight Antoine de Saint-Exupery France
1931 The Waves • Virginia Woolf England
1931 The Good Earth Pearl Buck United States
1931 At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft United States
1932 Viper’s Tangle Francois Mauriac France
1932 The Crime of Inspector Maigret Georges Simenon France
1932 Brave New World • Aldous Huxley England
1932 Tobacco Road • Erskine Caldwell United States
1932-35 The Studs Lonigan Trilogy James T. Farrell United States
1932 The Thin Man • Dashiell Hammett United States
1933 Fruits of the Earth Frederick Philip Grove Canada
1933 Man’s Fate André Malraux France
1933-51 Le Réel Louis Aragon France
1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein United States
1933 Miss Lonelyhearts • Nathaniel West United States
1934 Such is My Beloved • Morley Callaghan Canada
1934 How the Steel Was Tempered • Nikolai Ostrovsky Russia
1934 A Handful of Dust • Evelyn Waugh England
1934 I, Claudius • Graves Robert England
1934 Tender is the Night • F. Scott Fitzgerald United States
1934 Appointment in Samarra • John O’Hara United States
1934 Tropic of Cancer • Henry Miller United States
1934 The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain United States
1935 They Shall Inherit the Earth Morley Callaghan Canada
1935 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre B. Traven Mexico
1935 Old Tales Retold • Lu Hsun China
1935 Call It Sleep • Henry Roth United States
1936 Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley England
1936 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell United States
1937 More Joy in Heaven • Morley Callaghan Canada
1937 The Hobbitt • J.R.R. Tolkien England
1938 Nausea • Jean-Paul Sartre France
1938 The Years Virginia Woolf England
1938 Brighton Rock Graham Greene England
1938 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier England
1938 The Fathers Allen Tate United States
1929 Finnegan's Wake • James Joyce Ireland
1939 At Swim-Two-Birds • Flann O’Brien Ireland
1939 The Day of the Locust • Nathaniel West United States
1939 The Grapes of Wrath • John Steinbeck United States
1939 The Big Sleep • Raymond Chandler United States
1939 The Little Foxes Liilian Hellman United States
1940 The Don Flows Home to the Sea • Mikhail Sholokov Russia
1940 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene England
1940 Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler England
1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls • Ernest Hemingway United States
1940 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers United States
1940 Native Son Richard Wright United States
1941 Barometer Rising • Hugh MacLennan Canada
1941 As For Me and My House • Sinclair Ross Canada
1941 Herself Surprised Joyce Cary England
1942 His Majesty’s Yankees • Thomas H. Raddall Canada
1942 The Outsider • Albert Camus France
1942 To Be a Pilgrim Joyce Cary England
1943 Our Lady of the Flowers Jean Genet France
1943 The Little Prince • Antoine de Saint-Exupery France
1943 The Fountainhead • Ayn Rand United States
1943 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith United States
1944 The Master of the Mill Frederick Philip Grove Canada
1944 Earth and High Heaven Gwethalyn Graham Canada
1944 The Horse’s Mouth • Joyce Cary England
1945 Two Solitudes • Hugh MacLennan Canada
1945 The Tin Flute • Gabrielle Roy Canada
1945 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept • Elizabeth Smart Canada
1945 Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) • Herman Hesse Germany
1945 Gigi Colette France
1945-9 Roads to Freedom • Jean-Paul Sartre France
1945 Loving Henry Green England
1945 Black Boy Richard Wright United States
1946 Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andric Yugoslavia
1946 Mr. President Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala
1946 Brideshead Revisited • Evelyn Waugh England
1946 All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren United States
1947 Music at the Close Edward McCourt Canada
1947 Hetty Dorval Ethel Wilson Canada
1947 Under the Volcano • Malcolm Lowry Canada
1947 Who Has Seen the Wind? • W.O. Mitchell Canada
1947 The Path to the Nest of Spiders Italo Calvino Italy
1947 Eustace and Hilda L.P. Hartley England
1948 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton South Africa
1948 The Heart of the Matter • Graham Greene England
1948 The Naked and the Dead • Norman Mailer United States
1948 Guard of Honor James Gould Cozzens United States
1949 Turvey Earl Birney Canada
1949 The Innocent Traveller Ethel Wilson Canada
1949 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir France
1949 Men of Maize Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala
1949 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute England
1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four • George Orwell England
1949 The Third Man • Graham Greene England
1949 The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles United States
1949 Shane Jack Schaefer United States
1950 Home is the Stranger Edward McCourt Canada Novel
1950 Cabbagetown • Hugh Garner Canada Novel
1950 The Nymph and the Lamp Thomas H. Raddall Canada Novel
1950 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis England Novel
1951 The Second Scroll • A.M. Klein Canada Novel
1951 The Loved and the Lost Morley Callaghan Canada Novel
1951 Tempest Tost Robertson Davies Canada Novel
1951 The Day of the Triffids • John Wyndham England Novel
1951 The End of the Affair Graham Greene England Novel
1951-75 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell England Novel series
1951 The Catcher in the Rye • J.D. Salinger United States Novel
1951 Lie Down in Darkness William Styron United States Novel
1951 The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison United States Novel
1951 From Here to Eternity James Jones United States Novel
1951 Spartacus Howard Fast United States Novel
1951-93 Foundation • Isaac Asimov United States Novel series
1952 The Mountain and the Valley • Ernest Buckler Canada Novel
1952 A Many-splendoured Thing Han Suyin China Novel
1952 The Old Man and the Sea • Ernest Hemingway United States Novel
1952 East of Eden • John Steinbeck United States Novel
1952 Charlotte’s Web E.B. White United States Novel
1953 The Adventures of Augie March • Saul Bellow United States Novel
1953 The Long Goodbye • Raymond Chandler United States Novel
1953 The Demolished Man • Alfred Bester United States Novel
1954 Swamp Angel Ethel Wilson Canada Novel
1954 Leaven of Mailice Robertson Davies Canada Novel
1954 The Mandarins Simone de Beauvoir France Novel
1954 Lucky Jim • Kingsley Amis England Novel
1954 Lord of the Flies • William Golding England Novel
1954 Under the Net Iris Murdoch England Novel
1954-55 Lord of the Rings • J.R.R. Tolkien England Novel series
1954 Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin United States Novel
1955 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne • Brian Moore Canada Novel
1955 Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo Mexico Novel
1955 The Chrysalids • John Wyndham England Novel
1955 The Quiet American • Graham Greene England Novel
1955 The Recognitions William Gaddis United States Novel
1955 The Ginger Man D.P. Donleavy United States Novel
1955 The Talented Mr. Ripley • Patricia Highsmith United States Novel
1956 The Stars My Destination • Alfred Bester United States Novel
1957 Jealousy • Alain Robbe-Grillet France Novel
1957 Doctor Zhivago • Boris Pasternak Russia Novel
1957 On the Beach • Nevil Shute England Novel
1957 Room at the Top John Braine England Novel
1957-60 The Alexandria Quartet Laurence Durrell England Novel series
1957 On the Road Jack Kerouac United States Novel
1957 The Wapshot Chronicle John Cheever United States Novel
1957 Atlas Shrugged • Ayn Rand United States Novel
1958 The Leopard Giusseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa Italy Novel
1958 Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Jorge Amado Brazil Novel
1958 Lolita • Valdimir Nabokov Russia Novel
1958 The Once and Future King T.H. White England Novel
1958 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe England Novel
1958 Exodus Leon Uris United States Novel
1958 Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote United States Novella
1959 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz • Mordecai Richler Canada Novel
1959 The Double Hook Sheila Wilson Canada Novel
1959 The Tin Drum • Günter Grass Germany Novel
1959 The Golden Notebook • Doris Lessing England Novel
1959 Goldfinger • Ian Fleming England Novel
1959 Goodbye Columbus • Philip Roth United States Novel
1959 The Galton Case • Ross MacDonald United States Novel
1959 Naked Lunch • William S. Burroughs United States Novel
1959 Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow United States Novel
1960 Mad Shadows • Marie-Claire Blais Canada Novel
1960 The Luck of Ginger Coffey • Brian Moore Canada Novel
1960 Rabbit, Run • John Updike United States Novel
1960 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee United States Novel
1960 A Canticle for Leibowitz • Walter M. Miller United States Novel
1961 The Stone Angel • Margaret Laurence Canada Novel
1961 Oh Heroes and Tombs Ernesto Sabato Argentina Novel
1961 A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul Trinidad Novel
1961 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark England Novel
1961 Catch 22 Joseph Heller United States Novel
1961 Stranger in a Strange Land • Robert A. Heinlein United States Novel
1962 The Green House Mario Vargas Llosa Peru Novel
1962 The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes Mexico Novel
1962 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov Russia Novel
1962 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess England Novel
1962 The Reivers • William Faulkner United States Novel
1962 Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter United States Novel
1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest • Ken Kesey United States Novel
1962 The Man in the High Castle • Philip K. Dick United States Novel
1963 The Clown Heinrich Boll Germany Novel
1963 Hopscotch Julio Cortazar Argentina Novel
1963 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold • John Le Carré England Novel
1963 Another Country James Baldwin United States Novel
1963 V • Thomas Pynchon United States Novel
1964 Herzog • Saul Bellow United States Novel
1964 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch • Philip K. Dick United States Novel
1965-70 Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima Japan Novel series
1965 Dune • Frank Herbert United States Novel
1966 St. Urbain’s Horseman • Mordecai Richler Canada Novel
1966 A Jest of God • Margaret Laurence Canada Novel
1966 Beautiful Losers • Leonard Cohen Canada Novel
1966 The Magus • John Fowles England Novel
1966 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys England Novel
1966 Giles Goat-Boy John Barth United States Novel
1966 In Cold Blood • Truman Capote United States Novel
1966 The Fixer Bernard Malamud United States Novel
1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude • Gabriel Garcia Marquez Colombia Novel
1967 The Chosen Chaim Potok United States Novel
1967 The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron United States Novel
1967 Camp Concentration • Thomas Disch United States Novel
1968 Cancer Ward Alexander Solzhenitsyn Russia Novel
1968 The First Circle Alexander Solzhenitsyn Russia Novel
1968 The Armies of the Night • Norman Mailer United States Novel
1968 The Wizard of Earthsea • Ursula K. Le Guin United States Novel
1969 The Edible Woman • Margaret Atwood Canada Novel
1969 Little Painted Mouths Manuel Puig Argentina Novel
1969 The French Lieutenant’s Woman • John Fowles England Novel
1969 Slaughterhouse Five • Kurt Vonnegut United States Novel
1969 Portnoy’s Complaint • Philip Roth United States Novel
1969 Them • Joyce Carol Oates United States Novel
1969 The Godfather Mario Puzo United States Novel
1969 The Left Hand of Darkness • Ursula K. Le Guin United States Novel
1970 Fifth Business • Robertson Davies Canada Novel
1970 Kamouraska Anne Hébert Canada Novel
1970 Deliverance James Dickey United States Novel
1971 In a Free State V.S. Naipaul Trinidad Novel
1971 Crow • Ted Hughes England Novel
1971 The Bell Jar • Sylvia Plath United States Novel
1971-83 Riverworld • Philip José Farmer United States Novel
1972 The Man With the Golden Arm Nelson Algren United States Novel
1972 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson United States Novel
1972 The Sunlight Dialogues John Gardner United States Novel
1973 Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon United States Novel
1974 The Diviners • Margaret Laurence Canada Novel
1974 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer South Africa Novel
1974 The Black Prince • Iris Murdoch England Novel
1974 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig United States Novel
1975 Ragtime E.L. Doctorow United States Novel
1976 Bear • Marian Engel Canada Novel
1976 The World According to Garp • John Irving United States Novel
1976 Roots: The Saga of an American Family Alex Haley United States Novel
1977 The Invention of the World • Jack Hodgins Canada Novel
1977 The Wars Timothy Findlay Canada Novel
1977 Aunt Julia and the Script-Writer • Mario Vargas Llosa Peru Novel
1977 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison United States Novel
1978 Judith • Aritha van Herk Canada Novel
1978 The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch England Novel
1979 If On a Winter’s Night A Traveller Italo Calvino Italy Novel
1979 A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul Trinidad Novel
1979 The Burgher’s Daughter Nadine Gordimer South Africa Novel
1979-84 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams England Novel series
1979 Sophie’s Choice William Styron United States Novel
1980 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole United States Novel
1980 Battlefield Earth L. Ron Hubbard United States Novel
1981 The Alley Cat • Yves Beauchemin Canada Novel
1981 Famous Last Words • Timothy Findlay Canada Novel
1981 Obasan Joy Kogawa Canada Novel
1981 The White Hotel • D.M. Thomas England Novel
1982 Shoeless Joe • W.P. Kinsella Canada Novel
1982 The Color Purple Alice Walker United States Novel
1983 A Time for Judas • Morley Callaghan Canada Novel
1983 Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer United States Novel
1984 Neuromancer • William Gibson Canada Novel
1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera Czechoslovakia Novel
1984 Bright Lights, Big City • Jay McInerney United States Novel
1984 Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie United States Novel
1985 Black Robe Brian Moore Canada Novel
1985 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Canada Novel
1985 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry United States Novel
1985 The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler United States Novel
1987 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields Canada Novel
1987 In the Skin of A Lion Michael Ondaatje Canada Novel
1987 The Radiant Way • Margaret Drabble England Novel
1987 Misery Stephen King United States Novel
1988 The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie India Novel
1988 Freaky Deaky • Elmore Leonard United States Novel
1988 Beloved Toni Morrison United States Novel
1988 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan United States Novel
1988 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler United States Novel
1989 The Storyteller • Mario Vargas Llosa Peru Novel
1989 The Quincunx • Charles Palliser England Novel
1989 A Prayer for Owen Meany • John Irving United States Novel
1989 Schindler’s List • Thomas Keneally United States Novel
1990 Possession • A.S. Byatt England Novel
1990 Get Shorty • Elmore Leonard United States Novel
1991 Generation X • Douglas Coupland Canada Novel
1991 The Van Roddy Doyle Ireland Novel
1992 The English Patient • Michael Ondaatje Canada Novel
1992 Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card United States Novel
1993 Away Jane Urquhart Canada Novel
1996 Harlot's Ghost • Norman Mailer United States Novel
1996 Fall on Your Knees • Ann-Marie MacDonald Canada Novel
1997 Underworld • Don DeLillo United States Novel
1999 Barney’s Version Mordecai Richler Canada Novel
1999 Elizabeth and After Matt Cohen Canada Novel
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