OCLC, with the help of World Cat -- the world's largest database of library materials -- identified the top 100 novels. How many of you read? The full list can be found here.
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1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria (Introduction by); John Rutherford (Translator, Notes by)
Call Number: PQ6352 .K5
ISBN: 9780142437230
Publication Date: 2003-02-25
2. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll; Barbara Frith (Inked or colored by); John Tenniel (Illustrator)
Call Number: PR4611.A73 2016
ISBN: 9781909621589
Publication Date: 2016-04-26
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Call Number: PS1305 .A1 1940
ISBN: 9780486280615
Publication Date: 1994-05-26
4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Call Number: PS1306 .A1 1917
ISBN: 1503215679
Publication Date: 2014-11-29
5. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Call Number: PZ7.S8482 Tr8
ISBN: 9781847494863
Publication Date: 2015-11-15
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Call Number: PR4034 .P7 2008
ISBN: 9781909621657
Publication Date: 2016-07-19
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Call Number: PR4172 .W7
ISBN: 9781505313499
Publication Date: 2014-12-05
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Call Number: PR4167 .J3 1942
ISBN: 0553211404
Publication Date: 1983-09-01
9. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Call Number: PS2384 .M6 1933
ISBN: 1853260088
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Call Number: PS1868 .A1 1994
ISBN: 9781519425591
Publication Date: 2015-11-20
11. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Call Number: PR3724 .G7 1945a
ISBN: 9781508474333
Publication Date: 2015-02-13
12. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Call Number: GVDB PR3330.A25 A47 1939
ISBN: 9781512396485
Publication Date: 2015-05-27
13. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Call Number: PR4572 .C4 1966
ISBN: 9780486268651
Publication Date: 1991-06-01
14. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Judith John (Contribution by)
Call Number: PR4558 .D38 1971
ISBN: 9781787557062
Publication Date: 2019-09-13
15. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Call Number: PR4571 .A1 1949
ISBN: 9781512314939
Publication Date: 2015-05-23
16. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Call Number: PS1017 .L58 2000
ISBN: 9780147514011
Publication Date: 2014-08-28
17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Call Number: PR4560 .A1 1953
ISBN: 1503275183
Publication Date: 2014-11-29
18. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien
Call Number: PR6039.O32 H6 1996
ISBN: 9780395071229
Publication Date: 1938-01-01
19. Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Call Number: PR5397 .F7 1984
ISBN: 9781512308051
Publication Date: 2015-05-21
20. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Call Number: PR4567 .A1 1975
ISBN: 9780141439747
Publication Date: 2003-04-29
21. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Call Number: PS2954 .U5 2006
ISBN: 1582874034
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Call Number: PG3326 .P713 1938
ISBN: 9781631490330
Publication Date: 2017-11-21
23. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Call Number: PQ2246 .M2 1957
ISBN: 9780143106494
Publication Date: 2011-10-04
24. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
Call Number: PR6039 .O32 L6 1992
ISBN: 0395647401
Publication Date: 1992-11-19
25. Dracula by Bram Stoker
Call Number: PR6037 .T617 D7 1997b
ISBN: 0312863586
Publication Date: 1997-08-15
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26. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Call Number: PQ2228 .A31 L67 1952
ISBN: 9781853260407
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Call Number: PR6015 .U9 B65 1991
ISBN: 0899664237
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
28. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Call Number: PG3366 .V6 G37
ISBN: 1400079985
Publication Date: 2008-12-02
29. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Call Number: PS3562.E353 T6 1982
ISBN: 9780446310789
Publication Date: 1988-10-11
30. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Call Number: PZ7 .B327 Wi 2000
ISBN: 0375811370
Publication Date: 2000-09-12
31. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Call Number: PQ2286 .A3 B8
ISBN: 9780140444308
Publication Date: 1982-04-29
32. The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
Call Number: PZ7.B934 Se 2003
ISBN: 9780064401883
Publication Date: 2010-12-21
33. Animal Farm by George Orwell; Russell Baker (Preface by); C. M. Woodhouse (Introduction by)
Call Number: PR6029 .R8 A63 1954
ISBN: 9780451526342
Publication Date: 2004-04-06
34. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Call Number: PS3511 .I9 G7 1991
ISBN: 0521402301
Publication Date: 1991-08-30
35. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry; Richard Howard (Translator)
Call Number: PZ8.S14 Li
ISBN: 0156012197
Publication Date: 2000-06-29
36. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
ISBN: 0486264726
Publication Date: 1990-07-01
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37. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
Call Number: PQ2469 .T9 1952
ISBN: 9780241198773
Publication Date: 2017-07-11
38. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Call Number: PG3366 .A6 G35
ISBN: 9780143035008
Publication Date: 2004-05-31
39. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Call Number: PZ7.G759 Wi 1989
ISBN: 9781514664599
Publication Date: 2015-06-23
40. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Call Number: PR5819 .A1 1918
ISBN: 9780486278070
Publication Date: 1993-10-13
41. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537 .T3234 G8 1967
ISBN: 0143039431
Publication Date: 2006-03-28
42. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Call Number: PR4034 .S4 1992
ISBN: 9780141439662
Publication Date: 2003-04-29
43. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Call Number: PS1408 .A1 1961
ISBN: 9780375757648
Publication Date: 2001-06-12
44. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Call Number: PR4748 .A1 1920
ISBN: 9781983796029
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
45. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling; Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.R79835 Har 1998
ISBN: 0590353403
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
46. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Call Number: PZ7 .S772 He 1946
ISBN: 9781508480563
Publication Date: 2015-02-14
47. Ulysses by James Joyce; Morris L. Ernst (Foreword by)
Call Number: PR6019 .O9 U4 1992
ISBN: 0679600116
Publication Date: 1992-09-05
48. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Conan Arthur Doyle; Sidney Paget (Illustrator)
Call Number: PR4620 .A5 1976
ISBN: 0890090572
Publication Date: 2009-11-29
49. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Call Number: PQ2226 .A45 2009
ISBN: 9780307271129
Publication Date: 2009-06-02
50. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515.E37 O4 2003
ISBN: 0684801221
Publication Date: 1995-05-05
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51. Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis; Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7 .L58474 Ch 2001
ISBN: 0060281375
Publication Date: 1998-09-18
52. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo; Philip M. Parker
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781435637436
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
53. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Call Number: PZ8.L887 P32
ISBN: 9781590172896
Publication Date: 2008-11-18
54. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gregory Rabassa (Translator); Gabriel García Márquez; Carlos Fuentes (Introduction by)
Call Number: PQ8180.17 .A73 C513 1995
ISBN: 0679444653
Publication Date: 1995-10-17
55. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Call Number: PR5318 .A1 1950
ISBN: 9780140436587
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
56. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; Philip M. Parker
Call Number: PS1449 .C85 R43 1954
ISBN: 9781435638167
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
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57. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Call Number: PZ7.M768 An 1992
ISBN: 1503214133
Publication Date: 2014-11-28
58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Call Number: PZ10.3.S38 Bl 2003
ISBN: 9781717119827
Publication Date: 2018-04-21
59. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Call Number: PR4074.P318
ISBN: 9780142437933
Publication Date: 2004-07-27
60. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515 .E37 F3 1957
Publication Date: 1957
61. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Call Number: PS1861 .A1 1935
ISBN: 9781420956030
Publication Date: 2017-09-25
62. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Call Number: PR6013.O35 L6 1999
ISBN: 9780140283334
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
63. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Call Number: PS1316 .A1 1996
ISBN: 0195101383
Publication Date: 1996-12-05
64. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
Call Number: PR6019 .O9 P6 1928
ISBN: 9781503221437
Publication Date: 2014-11-28
65. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Call Number: PR6005 .O4 L67 1920
ISBN: 9781420958959
Publication Date: 2018-10-06
66. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling; Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.R79835 Har 1999b
ISBN: 0439064864
Publication Date: 1999-07-01
67. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Call Number: PQ2435 .R43 1947
ISBN: 9781420958492
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
68. The Stranger by Albert Camus
Call Number: PQ2605 .A3734 S77 1946
ISBN: 9780679720201
Publication Date: 1989-03-13
69. The Trial by Franz Kafka
Call Number: PT2621 .A26 T7 1937
ISBN: 9780486470610
Publication Date: 2009-07-22
70. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Call Number: PR6023 .A93 L3 1959
ISBN: 9780553212624
Publication Date: 1983-11-01
71. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Call Number: PR5484 .K5 1938
ISBN: 9781718124592
Publication Date: 2018-08-12
72. The Catcher in the Rye* by J. D. Salinger
Call Number: PS3537 .A426 C3 1951
ISBN: 9780316769532
Publication Date: 1951-07-16
73. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Call Number: PS3503 .R167 F3 1993
ISBN: 0743247221
Publication Date: 2003-09-23
74. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Call Number: PQ2469 .J6 1992
ISBN: 0192829009
Publication Date: 1992
75. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Call Number: PR5618 .A1 1958
ISBN: 9781719199360
Publication Date: 2018-05-18
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76. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Call Number: PT2635 .E68 A61 1929
ISBN: 9780449213940
Publication Date: 1987-03-12
77. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Call Number: PS3525 .I972 G6 1936
ISBN: 9781451635621
Publication Date: 2011-05-03
78. My Antonia by Willa Cather
Call Number: PS3505 .A87 M8 1954
ISBN: 9781508474616
Publication Date: 2015-02-13
79. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 O3 1965
ISBN: 9780140177398
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
80. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Call Number: PR3482 .H5
ISBN: 9780486434100
Publication Date: 2004-05-17
81. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Call Number: PS1308 .A1 1942
ISBN: 9781420954708
Publication Date: 2017-02-01
82. Three Novels : The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-wolf, and Forty Short Stories by Jack London
Call Number: PS3523.O46 A6 1998
ISBN: 0517189860
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
83. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Call Number: PG3421 .F3 M3 1966
ISBN: 9781611044645
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
84. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Call Number: PG3476 .P27 D63 1991b
ISBN: 0679407596
Publication Date: 1991-11-26
85. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Call Number: PQ4272.E5 A357 1982
ISBN: 0451621344
Publication Date: 1982-10-05
86. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Call Number: PR6029 .R8 N55 1949b
ISBN: 0899663680
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
87. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Call Number: PS3537.I85 J8 1965
ISBN: 9780486419237
Publication Date: 2001-11-09
88. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Call Number: PS3552 .R685434 D3 2003
ISBN: 9780385504201
Publication Date: 2003-03-18
89. Persuasion by Jane Austen
Call Number: PR4034 .P5 2004
ISBN: 0809596296
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
90. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Call Number: PR4034 .M3 1949
ISBN: 9780521827652
Publication Date: 2005-10-20
91. Candide by Voltaire
Call Number: PQ2082 .C3 E5
ISBN: 9781503253797
Publication Date: 2014-11-28
92. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515 .E37 F6 1940
ISBN: 9780684803357
Publication Date: 1995-07-01
93. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; Robert C. Schweik
Call Number: PR4745.A2 S38 1986
ISBN: 0393954080
Publication Date: 1986-01-17
94. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien