My top ten novels

A Listmania! list by Darran "x-rayspe-x" (London, UK)
 
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)
1.  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne
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  "The most typical novel in world literature.  Beloved by Joyce, Nietzsche, Woolf, Diderot, Goethe, Beckett etc... you get the picture"
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The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)
2.  The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "Kafka is beyond our feeble comprehension."
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The Man without Qualities
3.  The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil
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  "This stupendously written novel is the greatest display of meditation, thought and comprehension I have ever come across. It shows why the novel is a better tool for examining existence than philosoph"
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The Magic Mountain
4.  The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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  "An awesome novel by someone who seems to know everything."
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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
5.  Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
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  "Possibly humanity's single greatest achievement."
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The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics)
6.  The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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  "The most profound novelist"
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A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)
7.  A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
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  "Along with Ulysses this is the greatest portrayal what it is to be alive"
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Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics)
8.  Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
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  "Dickens is like a force of nature. He a story telling magician, and Dostoyevsky and Kafka both adored him."
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Tender Is the Night (Wordsworth Classics)
9.  Tender Is the Night (Wordsworth Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
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  "Fitzgerald captures beauty like no one else."
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Lolita (Everyman's Library classics)
10.  Lolita (Everyman's Library classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
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  "Except Nabakov. I have to admit i've never read Proust, Tolstoy or George Eliott if you're wondering why they're missing"
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