Best Novels of the Past 500 Years?

Discover the best novels of the past 500 years in this curated list of timeless classics. Explore must-read books that shaped literature, from iconic authors to hidden gems.

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Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding

Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of …
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

A novel about writing a novel is the subject of this complex classic which has been described as the greatest shaggy dog story in the …
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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Guilt and desire, money and the nature of capitalism are pervasive themes in Dickens's magnificent novel, Great Expectations.'Pip's expectation, before his expectations, is that he …
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Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
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The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy …
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Madame Bovary

 

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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

Introduction by A. N. Wilson • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Often called the greatest novel ever …
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of …
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Ulysses

by James Joyce

This revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses …
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To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions …
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