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Best Novels of All-Time

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Looking for good novels? This is my list of the best novels of all-time. If you only have time to read one or two books, I recommend looking at the Top Novels section below.

Further down the page, you’ll find more great novels. Many of these books are fantastic. I try to carefully curate all of my reading lists and you can be sure that any novel on this page is worth your time. Enjoy!

Top Novels

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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Siddhartha
By Herman Hesse
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
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More Book Recommendations

Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
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The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
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State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
by Mohsin Hamid
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The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
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Top Classic Literature Novels

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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1984
by George Orwell
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
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The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
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