List :: The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Bert

  • On the Road

    #91

    On the Road

    by Jack Kerouac

    (14 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 18

    543 points

    "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."

  • Frankenstein

    #92

    Frankenstein

    by Mary Shelley

    (30 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 84

    219 points

    "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."

  • The Leopard

    #93

    The Leopard

    by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

    (3 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 444

    39 points

    "'Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.'"

  • The Catcher in the Rye

    #94

    The Catcher in the Rye

    by J. D. Salinger

    (44 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 7

    735 points

    "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...

  • The Woman in White

    #95

    The Woman in White

    by Wilkie Collins

    (6 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 118

    164 points

    "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."

  • The Good Soldier Svejk

    #96

    The Good Soldier Svejk

    by Jaroslav Hasek

    (2 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 605

    5 points

    "'And so they've killed our Ferdinand', said the charwoman to Mr Svejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and..."

  • Dracula

    #97

    Dracula

    by Bram Stoker

    (16 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 462

    33 points

  • The Three Musketeers

    #98

    The Three Musketeers

    by Alexandre Dumas

    (11 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 509

    24 points

    "On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the iRoman de la Rose/i, was in a wild state of excitement."

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles

    #99

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    (17 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 166

    119 points

    "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and..."

  • Gone with the Wind

    #100

    Gone with the Wind

    by Margaret Mitchell

    (22 Reviews)

    Overall Rank: 16

    606 points

    "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm, as the Tarleton twins were."