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Top 15 Greatest Novels in World Literature

This ranking evaluates novels based on literary merit, historical influence, global reader acclaim, and academic recognition, spanning masterpieces across eras, regions, and genres to guide readers through world literature's finest works.

Current #1
War and Peace
RankTitleAuthorYear PublishedComposite Score
1
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy18699.8
2
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust19139.7
3
Ulysses
James Joyce19229.6
4
4
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez19679.6
5
5
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky18809.5
6
6
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen18139.5
7
7
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo18629.4
8
8
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy18779.4
9
9
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky18669.3
10
10
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald19259.3
11
11
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell19499.2
12
12
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain18849.2
13
13
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann19249.1
14
14
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf19279
15
15
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov19559

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