wherever there’s a cop beating up a guy
I’ll be there I’ll be in the way guys
yell on there man with these works of
literature authors turned inspiration
into a lasting legacy welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten greatest
novels of all time I always say you got
on common level here for a white boy
thank you Jim while self-help books and
short stories are appreciated our list
focuses on novels by one specific author
which means the Bible failed to make the
cut as did a work like Hamlet which is a
play and not a novel I do not know why
yet I live to say these things to do
number 10 to kill a mockingbird Harper
Lee there’s no hurry for there’s nowhere
to go nothing to buy no money to buy it
with although Macon County had recently
been told that it had nothing to fear
but fear itself pulled by scout as a
flashback to her childhood To Kill a
Mockingbird is the story of her father
morally upright lawyer Atticus Finch who
defends an innocent black man against a
rape charge and teaches his children
about racial equality they never really
understand a person until you consider
things from his point of view
written by Truman Capote’s childhood
friend it was an instant classic that
one Harper Lee the Pulitzer Prize
Presidential Medal of Freedom and
defined a generation in our courts Oh
created it equal no idealist to believe
firmly in the integrity of our courts
and our jury system that’s no idea to me
number nine Don Quixote Miguel de
Cervantes Lord and governor of this
noble castle my vigil is not yet
complete considered the most important
piece of writing to emerge from Spain’s
Golden Age Don Quixote sees a
middle-aged man attempt to restore the
chivalry he’s read about by go
on a meandering quest with his trusty
squire sancho panza by his side so by
the authority vested in me by the order
of knighthood I call upon your captain
here to release you from tyranny
translated into more languages than any
other book except the Bible Don Quixote
was released in two volumes separated by
ten years with shifting moralities
perspectives and narrations this tale of
honor and romance influenced many novels
that followed it including Alexander
Dumas The Three Musketeers and Mark
Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
number eight in search of lost time Mao
said post whoever knew that a Madeleine
dipped in tea could stir such memories
over 14 years in the early 20th century
one writer issued the notion that plot
must push a novel along Proust seven
volumes of towering prose originally
titled allow a shelf do top felled zoo
pervaded the collective consciousness of
readers with dreamy imagery and
reflective prose involuntary memory is
the theme at the heart of the novel with
human senses guiding the narrative post
never stopped adding to his masterpiece
until his untimely death but fortunately
for readers in search of lost time
provides a lifetime of enjoyment
O’Kelly new yellow number seven The
Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger reading
the classic mantra of cave ecstasy for
rebellious youths worldwide this post
world war ii novel offered a protagonist
to identify with holden caulfield
originated in Salinger’s 1946 short
story slight rebellion off Madison and
he takes us with him after his expulsion
from prep school with teen angst and
disaffected at its core The Catcher in
the Rye was controversial as it featured
slang cursing and open discussions of
teen sexuality page two my brothers in
Hollywood being a prostitute page three
what a phony slob his father was the
most banned book in the u.s. between
1961 and 1982 it
anti-establishment themes inspired a new
wave of global writers and resulted in a
cult following for the reclusive author
Young Hinkley the whiz kid who shot
Reagan and his press secretary said if
you want my defense all you have to do
is read Catcher in the Rye
number six Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
Mark Twain I sure would like to be going
somewheres come on up let’s go after
first appearing in the 1876 classic The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer social outcasts
Huck Finn appeared eight years later in
one of America’s most controversial
novels based in a fictional Missouri
town Huckleberry Finn takes us on a
descriptive and educational trip along
the Mississippi River accompanied by a
runaway slave Jim I don’t let revita
taste of freedom and now being a slave
again and II feel so so very bad let’s
get on to Cairo Hook
please written in colloquial speech
Twain’s novel was occasionally banned
for its coarseness and critique of the
South however it’s sometimes satirical
exploration of racism and societal
pressures in pre-civil war America
opened the door for endless debate
regarding ethical and cultural conflicts
why’d you come and get me you’re my
friend Jim number five Lolita Vladimir
Nabokov listen didn’t you then you have
a daughter then you have a daughter with
a lovely name
yeah lovely what was it now a lovely
lyrical lilting name like Lolita to be a
young woman in the 1950s meant
displaying the proper amount of grace
beauty and respect for elders Russian
novelist Vladimir Nabokov flipped the
script on such ideals with his 1955
classic about a young temptress and the
older man who desired her 38 39 40 41 42
43 4 45 46 while critics often debate
the predatory instincts of the
characters Lolita opened up
international dialogue on sexual abuse
literary morals and the comedic wordplay
of Nabokov initially banned in parts of
Europe it was adapted by film director
Stanley Kubrick thus ensuring a lasting
legacy in both media you’re not bound to
him in any way as you want bound to me
by everything that we have lived through
together you and I I’m going to have his
baby in three months number four the
great gatsby f scott Fitzgerald how do
you do a sport I’m Gatsby
one of America’s most beloved novels was
born in the roaring 20s painting an
opulent picture of life in the imagine
town of West Egg Long Island Gatsby is a
story about the fleeting nature of the
American dream
okay what’s your opinion of me anyhow
I hadn’t really thought about with the
enigmatic Jay Gatsby and his fixation
with Daisy Buchanan at its center
Fitzgerald’s story of new money and love
lost was not an immediate hit only
selling 20,000 copies in its first year
but following World War two the story of
flapper culture was reborn and found its
way into high schools and popular
culture you can’t repeat the past can’t
repeat the past
of course you can number three
war and peace leo tolstoy you know why
I’m going to the war you think it’s
because I think that Napoleon is a
monster do you think that I believe that
we have any business fighting Austria’s
battles 2,000 miles from home you think
that I think Russia will be a greater
nation when this war is over why are you
going because I’m married to one of the
most loving and honorable and attractive
women in Moscow and I can’t stand it
long before the word epic became
associated with viral videos it was the
perfect way to describe this 1869
Russian novel of incomparable power
Tolstoy undertook astounding historical
research for war and peace acutely
examining the French invasion of Russia
while at the same time blending history
with fiction into a work that defies
categorization oh where you going to the
army they hope to make a stand against
Napoleon at Borodino with the narrative
structure sometimes replaced by
philosophical musings war and peace
studies what drives people during the
best of times and the worst of times as
they strive to discover the meaning of
life weighty themes but lasting ones
what do you think it represents I think
it can only represents either the
sincere wish of His Majesty desire to
avoid war and to prevent the shedding of
both Russian and French blood number two
Madame Bovary
Gustav feel their joy was discouraged
misery was forbidden they were trying to
break me like a horse
while all publicity didn’t necessarily
equal good publicity for first-time
authors in mid 19th century France it
did work out well for one celebrated
novelist
I’m not frightening you it’s all
you stop flow valve 18:56 tale of rural
life and bourgeois aspirations caught
the attention of readers but the sexual
conquests of its leading lady rubbed
many the wrong way I have loved I have a
lover the French author was ultimately
acquitted of any wrongdoing as the focus
shifted to his tight narrative structure
exquisite details and juxtaposition of
reality versus imagination I feel no
remorse suffer no guilt fear nothing you
have poured yourself into my heart and
love comes streaming out with each
extraordinary sentence flow bath piece
together a novel of endless fascination
for readers there’s nothing left for you
before we crack the spine on our top
pick here are some honorable mentions
one ring to rule them all to the past or
to the future turn age when thought is
free from the age of Big Brother from
the age of the thought police such a bit
it’ll be thrown away so much English
scholarship is for want of knowing
what’s been done by the rest of the
world what do you mean I met him in that
the Germans have taken the lead in
historical enquiries everything I do I
do it for you anything that might be
special in me is you
there
number one anna karenina leo tolstoy
along with what he called his first true
novel coal story not only pierced the
collective consciousness of his native
Russia he also developed techniques that
inspired literary realism and writers
worldwide as soon as we hear about the
divorce we get married and then you
won’t have to talk to yourself in he’ll
only set against the transformation in
Russian culture occurring in the late
1800s Anna Karenina is on the surface a
story of infidelity and self-examination
with family faith and death anchoring
the plot as well why did I give ELISA
all this jolly life but what pioneering
the use of stream of consciousness to
sinuously weave together tenuously
associated thoughts Anna Karenina is an
astounding display of realism that
stands as the supreme giant of
literature come on Anna is something
wrong no no I have to go to the station
Lingle died on a peasant Jenny I’m sorry
don’t bother goodbye do you agree with
our list what’s your favorite novel of
all time for more mind-blowing top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
Revathy Oh
you
I’ll be there I’ll be in the way guys
yell on there man with these works of
literature authors turned inspiration
into a lasting legacy welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten greatest
novels of all time I always say you got
on common level here for a white boy
thank you Jim while self-help books and
short stories are appreciated our list
focuses on novels by one specific author
which means the Bible failed to make the
cut as did a work like Hamlet which is a
play and not a novel I do not know why
yet I live to say these things to do
number 10 to kill a mockingbird Harper
Lee there’s no hurry for there’s nowhere
to go nothing to buy no money to buy it
with although Macon County had recently
been told that it had nothing to fear
but fear itself pulled by scout as a
flashback to her childhood To Kill a
Mockingbird is the story of her father
morally upright lawyer Atticus Finch who
defends an innocent black man against a
rape charge and teaches his children
about racial equality they never really
understand a person until you consider
things from his point of view
written by Truman Capote’s childhood
friend it was an instant classic that
one Harper Lee the Pulitzer Prize
Presidential Medal of Freedom and
defined a generation in our courts Oh
created it equal no idealist to believe
firmly in the integrity of our courts
and our jury system that’s no idea to me
number nine Don Quixote Miguel de
Cervantes Lord and governor of this
noble castle my vigil is not yet
complete considered the most important
piece of writing to emerge from Spain’s
Golden Age Don Quixote sees a
middle-aged man attempt to restore the
chivalry he’s read about by go
on a meandering quest with his trusty
squire sancho panza by his side so by
the authority vested in me by the order
of knighthood I call upon your captain
here to release you from tyranny
translated into more languages than any
other book except the Bible Don Quixote
was released in two volumes separated by
ten years with shifting moralities
perspectives and narrations this tale of
honor and romance influenced many novels
that followed it including Alexander
Dumas The Three Musketeers and Mark
Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
number eight in search of lost time Mao
said post whoever knew that a Madeleine
dipped in tea could stir such memories
over 14 years in the early 20th century
one writer issued the notion that plot
must push a novel along Proust seven
volumes of towering prose originally
titled allow a shelf do top felled zoo
pervaded the collective consciousness of
readers with dreamy imagery and
reflective prose involuntary memory is
the theme at the heart of the novel with
human senses guiding the narrative post
never stopped adding to his masterpiece
until his untimely death but fortunately
for readers in search of lost time
provides a lifetime of enjoyment
O’Kelly new yellow number seven The
Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger reading
the classic mantra of cave ecstasy for
rebellious youths worldwide this post
world war ii novel offered a protagonist
to identify with holden caulfield
originated in Salinger’s 1946 short
story slight rebellion off Madison and
he takes us with him after his expulsion
from prep school with teen angst and
disaffected at its core The Catcher in
the Rye was controversial as it featured
slang cursing and open discussions of
teen sexuality page two my brothers in
Hollywood being a prostitute page three
what a phony slob his father was the
most banned book in the u.s. between
1961 and 1982 it
anti-establishment themes inspired a new
wave of global writers and resulted in a
cult following for the reclusive author
Young Hinkley the whiz kid who shot
Reagan and his press secretary said if
you want my defense all you have to do
is read Catcher in the Rye
number six Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
Mark Twain I sure would like to be going
somewheres come on up let’s go after
first appearing in the 1876 classic The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer social outcasts
Huck Finn appeared eight years later in
one of America’s most controversial
novels based in a fictional Missouri
town Huckleberry Finn takes us on a
descriptive and educational trip along
the Mississippi River accompanied by a
runaway slave Jim I don’t let revita
taste of freedom and now being a slave
again and II feel so so very bad let’s
get on to Cairo Hook
please written in colloquial speech
Twain’s novel was occasionally banned
for its coarseness and critique of the
South however it’s sometimes satirical
exploration of racism and societal
pressures in pre-civil war America
opened the door for endless debate
regarding ethical and cultural conflicts
why’d you come and get me you’re my
friend Jim number five Lolita Vladimir
Nabokov listen didn’t you then you have
a daughter then you have a daughter with
a lovely name
yeah lovely what was it now a lovely
lyrical lilting name like Lolita to be a
young woman in the 1950s meant
displaying the proper amount of grace
beauty and respect for elders Russian
novelist Vladimir Nabokov flipped the
script on such ideals with his 1955
classic about a young temptress and the
older man who desired her 38 39 40 41 42
43 4 45 46 while critics often debate
the predatory instincts of the
characters Lolita opened up
international dialogue on sexual abuse
literary morals and the comedic wordplay
of Nabokov initially banned in parts of
Europe it was adapted by film director
Stanley Kubrick thus ensuring a lasting
legacy in both media you’re not bound to
him in any way as you want bound to me
by everything that we have lived through
together you and I I’m going to have his
baby in three months number four the
great gatsby f scott Fitzgerald how do
you do a sport I’m Gatsby
one of America’s most beloved novels was
born in the roaring 20s painting an
opulent picture of life in the imagine
town of West Egg Long Island Gatsby is a
story about the fleeting nature of the
American dream
okay what’s your opinion of me anyhow
I hadn’t really thought about with the
enigmatic Jay Gatsby and his fixation
with Daisy Buchanan at its center
Fitzgerald’s story of new money and love
lost was not an immediate hit only
selling 20,000 copies in its first year
but following World War two the story of
flapper culture was reborn and found its
way into high schools and popular
culture you can’t repeat the past can’t
repeat the past
of course you can number three
war and peace leo tolstoy you know why
I’m going to the war you think it’s
because I think that Napoleon is a
monster do you think that I believe that
we have any business fighting Austria’s
battles 2,000 miles from home you think
that I think Russia will be a greater
nation when this war is over why are you
going because I’m married to one of the
most loving and honorable and attractive
women in Moscow and I can’t stand it
long before the word epic became
associated with viral videos it was the
perfect way to describe this 1869
Russian novel of incomparable power
Tolstoy undertook astounding historical
research for war and peace acutely
examining the French invasion of Russia
while at the same time blending history
with fiction into a work that defies
categorization oh where you going to the
army they hope to make a stand against
Napoleon at Borodino with the narrative
structure sometimes replaced by
philosophical musings war and peace
studies what drives people during the
best of times and the worst of times as
they strive to discover the meaning of
life weighty themes but lasting ones
what do you think it represents I think
it can only represents either the
sincere wish of His Majesty desire to
avoid war and to prevent the shedding of
both Russian and French blood number two
Madame Bovary
Gustav feel their joy was discouraged
misery was forbidden they were trying to
break me like a horse
while all publicity didn’t necessarily
equal good publicity for first-time
authors in mid 19th century France it
did work out well for one celebrated
novelist
I’m not frightening you it’s all
you stop flow valve 18:56 tale of rural
life and bourgeois aspirations caught
the attention of readers but the sexual
conquests of its leading lady rubbed
many the wrong way I have loved I have a
lover the French author was ultimately
acquitted of any wrongdoing as the focus
shifted to his tight narrative structure
exquisite details and juxtaposition of
reality versus imagination I feel no
remorse suffer no guilt fear nothing you
have poured yourself into my heart and
love comes streaming out with each
extraordinary sentence flow bath piece
together a novel of endless fascination
for readers there’s nothing left for you
before we crack the spine on our top
pick here are some honorable mentions
one ring to rule them all to the past or
to the future turn age when thought is
free from the age of Big Brother from
the age of the thought police such a bit
it’ll be thrown away so much English
scholarship is for want of knowing
what’s been done by the rest of the
world what do you mean I met him in that
the Germans have taken the lead in
historical enquiries everything I do I
do it for you anything that might be
special in me is you
there
number one anna karenina leo tolstoy
along with what he called his first true
novel coal story not only pierced the
collective consciousness of his native
Russia he also developed techniques that
inspired literary realism and writers
worldwide as soon as we hear about the
divorce we get married and then you
won’t have to talk to yourself in he’ll
only set against the transformation in
Russian culture occurring in the late
1800s Anna Karenina is on the surface a
story of infidelity and self-examination
with family faith and death anchoring
the plot as well why did I give ELISA
all this jolly life but what pioneering
the use of stream of consciousness to
sinuously weave together tenuously
associated thoughts Anna Karenina is an
astounding display of realism that
stands as the supreme giant of
literature come on Anna is something
wrong no no I have to go to the station
Lingle died on a peasant Jenny I’m sorry
don’t bother goodbye do you agree with
our list what’s your favorite novel of
all time for more mind-blowing top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
Revathy Oh
you
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