25 Most Brilliant Novels In Order of Appearance

1813, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen



1839, Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens



1847, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte



1848, Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens



1848, Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray



1850, David Copperfield, Charles Dickens



1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe



1857, Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope



1866, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky



1869, War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy



1891, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde



1903, The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler



1906, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair



1910, Howards End, E. M. Forster



1915, Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham



1930, Cakes and Ale, Somerset Maugham



1931, The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck



1934, A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh



1936, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell



1939, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck



1940, You Can’t Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe



1940, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway



1952, East of Eden, John Steinbeck



1987, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe



2001, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan