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My top ten novels
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (Penguin Classics)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (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
The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
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Kafka is beyond our feeble comprehension.
The Man Without QualitiesThe 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
The Magic MountainThe Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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An awesome novel by someone who seems to know everything.
Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
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Possibly humanity's single greatest achievement.
The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics)The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The most profound novelist
A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)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
Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics)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.
Tender Is the Night (Wordsworth Classics)Tender Is the Night (Wordsworth Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
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Fitzgerald captures beauty like no one else.
Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)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