Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels

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Entertainment Weekly’s Top 100 Novels (2013), as selected by the EW staff in its July 5th 2013 issue

This list was originally published in 2013 and was added to this site almost 12 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
160 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
2144 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets J. K. Rowling 1998 British English
1017 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban J. K. Rowling 1999 British English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
1755 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
2232 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 2007 British English
174 Rabbit, Run John Updike 1960 American English
668 Rabbit Redux John Updike 1971 American English
686 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike 1981 American English
784 Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1990 American English
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
102 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
32 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
9 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 American English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
406 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow 1975 American English
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
14 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 American English
623 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985 American English
195 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925 American English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
88 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1916 Irish English
121 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1852 British English
36 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 American English
293 A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
132 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 Canadian English
107 Native Son Richard Wright 1940 American English
994 Blindness José Saramago 1995 Portuguese Portuguese
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
1104 Maus Art Spiegelman 1980 American English
407 The World According to Garp John Irving 1978 American English
2163 A Personal Matter Kenzaburō Ōe 1964 Japanese Japanese
461 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 1957 American English
62 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 American English
849 Regeneration Pat Barker 1991 British English
14232 The Eye in the Door Pat Barker 1993 British English
5736 The Ghost Road Pat Barker 1995 British English
418 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 American English
735 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 1993 Indian English
353 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953 American English
274 The Stand Stephen King 1978 American English
203 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 American English
399 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 1995 British English
157 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 American English
92 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 American English
473 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
143 The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
2605 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
1538 Snow Orhan Pamuk 2002 Turkish Turkish
237 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001 American English
260 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977 American English
58 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English
3139 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain 2012 American English
549 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 1995 Indian English
803 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 American English
1451 The Children of Men P. D. James 1992 British English
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
68 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 American English
166 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 1985 Colombian Spanish
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
241 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 American English
333 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996 American English
298 Herzog Saul Bellow 1964 American English
197 Howards End E. M. Forster 1910 British English
314 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon 2000 American English
28 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
750 Money Martin Amis 1984 British English
893 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
146 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
204 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 British English
233 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré 1963 British English
1877 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier 1997 American English
20 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
61 The Golden Notebook Doris May Lessing 1962 British English
134 Tom Jones Henry Fielding 1749 British English
223 A House for Mr. Biswas V. S. Naipaul 1961 Trinidadian English
2918 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2012 British English
2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
255 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee 1999 South African English
1697 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields 1993 Canadian English
13941 Clockers Richard Price 1992 American English
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
14984 A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham 1990 American English
221 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 British English
310 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe 1987 American English
51 The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1759 British English
118 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 1940 American English
56 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1958 Italian Italian
348 The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse 1943 German German
722 Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison 1992 American English
393 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1868 British English
878 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 1998 American English
318 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 1979 Italian Italian
120 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 American English
573 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume 1970 American English
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
738 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 1989 American English