List :: 100 Greatest Novels of All Time by The Guardian

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  #31

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  by Mark Twain

  (28 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 66

  263 points

  "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The..."

  

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  #32

  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 181

  107 points

  "Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet..."

  

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  #33

  Three Men in a Boat

  by Jerome K. Jerome

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 317

  68 points

  "There were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency."

  

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  #34

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  by Oscar Wilde

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 330

  67 points

  "The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amid the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of lilac, or the more..."

  

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  #35

  The Diary of a Nobody

  by George Grossmith

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 332

  66 points

  "My dear wife Carrie and I have just been a week in our new house, "The Laurels," Brickfield Terrace, Holloway -- a nice six-roomed residence, not counting basement, with a front breakfast-parlour."

  

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  #36

  Jude the Obscure

  by Thomas Hardy

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 196

  99 points

  "The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry."

  

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  #37

  The Riddle of the Sands

  by Erskine Childers

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 346

  64 points

  "I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude - save for a few black faces - have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain..."

  

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  #38

  The Call of the Wild

  by Jack London

  (20 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 92

  203 points

  "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound..."

  

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  #39

  Nostromo

  by Joseph Conrad

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 112

  173 points

  "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

  

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  #40

  The Wind in the Willows

  by Kenneth Grahame

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 49

  318 points

  "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. "

  

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