The Novel 100 (Burt)

The Novel 100 (Burt) is a ranked list published in 2004 — one of the 14 sources behind the book canon, weighted as editorial list. 73 of its 100 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

1. 1Don QuixoteCanon #2
2. 2War and PeaceCanon #12
3. 3UlyssesCanon #1
4. 4In Search of Lost TimeCanon #50
5. 55. the Brothers Karamavoz.
6. 6Moby DickCanon #8
7. 7Madame BovaryCanon #6
8. 8MiddlemarchCanon #11
9. 9The Magic MountainCanon #26
10. 1010. the Tale of Genji
11. 1111. Emma
12. 1212. Bleak House
13. 1313. Anna Karenina
14. 14The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
15. 15Tom JonesCanon #74
16. 16Great ExpectationsCanon #17
17. 17Absalom, Absalom!Canon #70
18. 18The AmbassadorsCanon #97
19. 19One Hundred Years of SolitudeCanon #4
20. 20The Great GatsbyCanon #19
21. 21To the LighthouseCanon #23
22. 22Crime and PunishmentCanon #3
23. 23The Sound and the FuryCanon #25
24. 24Vanity FairCanon #39
25. 25Dead SoulsCanon #46
26. 26Le Pere GoriotCanon #32
27. 27The Portrait of a LadyCanon #62
28. 28Women in LoveCanon #90
29. 29The Red and the BlackCanon #28
30. 30Tristram ShandyCanon #64
31. 31FinnegansCanon #149
32. 32Tess of the D'urbervillesCanon #241
33. 33BuddenbrooksCanon #68
34. 34Invisible ManCanon #20
35. 35The Man Without QualitiesCanon #61
36. 36A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManCanon #89
37. 37Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable
38. 38The Tin DrumCanon #45
39. 39Wuthering HeightsCanon #7
40. 40Pride and PrejudiceCanon #5
41. 41The Scarlet LetterCanon #58
42. 42Gravity's Rainbow
43. 43Beloved, by Toni Morrison
44. 44NostromoCanon #43
45. 45Fathers and SonsCanon #81
46. 46The TrialCanon #9
47. 47LolitaCanon #24
48. 48Mrs. DallowayCanon #18
49. 49The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
50. 50ClarissaCanon #127
51. 51PersuasionCanon #57
52. 52Jane EyreCanon #10
53. 53David CopperfieldCanon #49
54. 54Petersburg
55. 55Things Fall ApartCanon #16
56. 56The Princess of ClevesCanon #219
57. 57The StrangerCanon #67
58. 58The Red Badge of CourageCanon #150
59. 59The CounterfeitersCanon #98
60. 60The Grapes of WrathCanon #21
61. 61The Golden NotebookCanon #41
62. 62Sons and LoversCanon #51
63. 63The Good SoldierCanon #177
64. 64A Passage to IndiaCanon #71
65. 65Daniel DerondaCanon #182
66. 66Germinal – Emile Zola
67. 67My AntoniaCanon #199
68. 68An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
69. 69HungerCanon #53
70. 70Berlin AlexanderplatzCanon #84
71. 71Midnight's ChildrenCanon #206
72. 72U.S.A. Trilogy
73. 73Les Liaisons Dangereuses
74. 74The Charterhouse of ParmaCanon #195
75. 75The Sorrows of Young WertherCanon #30
76. 76Cities of Salt
77. 77A Farewell to ArmsCanon #117
78. 78The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
79. 79HerzogCanon #203
80. 80CandideCanon #36
81. 81The Sleepwalkers
82. 82The Last Chronicle of Barset
83. 83The Awakening
84. 84Robinson CrusoeCanon #55
85. 85Call It Sleep
86. 86Waverley
87. 87Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
88. 88Their Eyes Were Watching GodCanon #63
89. 89Under the VolcanoCanon #207
90. 90Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata
91. 91Nineteen Eighty-FourCanon #13
92. 92As I Lay DyingCanon #221
93. 93Pickwick PapersCanon #249
94. 94The BetrothedCanon #133
95. 95Pale Fire
96. 96The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
97. 97Les MiserablesCanon #34
98. 98Uncle Tom's Cabin
99. 99Doctor ZhivagoCanon #114
100. 100Native SonCanon #176

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.