13 Ways Challenge - List 1

This list is not a “Hundred Greatest,” Jane Smiley is quick to stipulate, “only a list of individual novels that would illuminate the whole concept of the novel.” (There are actually more than 100 listed, as some list more than one work by the author)

A list in Google docs that can be downloaded/printed here

1. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
2. Egilssaga - Snorri Sturluson
3. The Saga of the People of Laxardal - Author unknown
4. The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
5. Lazarillo de Tormes - Anonymous
6. The Heptameron - Marguerite de Navarre
7. Don Quijote, vols. 1 and 2 - Miguel de Cervantes
8. The Princess of Cleves - Madame de La Fayette
9. Oroonoko and "The Fair Jilt" - Aphra Behn
10. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
11. Roxana - Daniel Defoe
12. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson
13. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding
14. The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
15. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Stern
16. Candide - Voltaire
17. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
18. Les Liaisons dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos
19. Justine - The Marquis de Sade
20. The Tale of Old Mortality - Sir Walter Scott
21. The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
22. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
23. Persuasion - Jane Austen
24. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
25. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
26. Taras Bulba - Nikolai Gogol
27. A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
28. Cousin Pons - Honore de Balzac
29. Cousin Bette - Honore de Balzac
30. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
31. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
32. Vanity Fair - William Makepeaces Thackeray
33. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
34. Moby Dick; or, The Whale - Herman Melville 
35. The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
36. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
37. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
38. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
39. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
40. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
41. Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
42. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
43. The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
44. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
45. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
46. Middlemarch - George Eliot
47. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
48. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
49. The Awkward Age - Henry James
50. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
51. Dracula - Bram Stoker
52. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
53. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
54. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
55. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
56. The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story - Max Beerbohm
57. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
58. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
59. Kristin Lavransdatter, vol. 1, The Wreath - Sigrid Undset
60. Ulysses - James Joyce
61. Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo
62. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
63. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
64. The Trial - Franz Kafka
65. The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch
66. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
67. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
68. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
69. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
70. The Man without Qualities, vol. 1 - Robert Musil
71. And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov
72. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
73. The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
74. The Return of Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
75. Bertie Wooster Sees It Through - P.G. Wodehouse
76. Spring Fever- P.G. Wodehouse
77. The Butler Did It - P.G. Wodehouse
78. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
79. The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
80. The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
81. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 
82. The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West
83. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
84. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
85. Don't Tell Alfred - Nancy Mitford
86. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
87. The Moonflower Vine - Jetta Carleton
88. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima
89. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
90. Grendel - John Gardner
91. Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
92. The Harafish - Naguib Mahfouz
93. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
94. How Far Can You Go? - David Lodge
95. Loitering with Intent - Muriel Spark
96. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
97. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
98. Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
99. Foe - J.M. Coetzee
100. Beloved - Toni Morrison
101. Possession - A.S. Byatt
102. Vox - Nicholson Baker
103. WLT: A Radio Romance - Garrison Keillor
104. Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
105. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
106. Guided Tours of Hell - Francine Prose
107. A Gesture Life - Chang-rae Lee
108. Lovely Green Eyes - Arnost Lustig
109. White Teeth - Zadie Smioth
110. The Complete Henry Book - John Updike
111. Atonement - Ian McEwan
112. Look at Me - Jennifer Egan