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

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