The 100 Greatest Novels

The Issues with this quiz are innumerable (JK Rowling beating out Portrait of an Artist and say Go Down Moses among them.) But it was fun

53/100. I don't feel too bad about that. Had to comment because I recognized the name Ted Gioia. As quiz bowl club president at Kansas State, I've read about his quiz bowl exploits at Harvard. By the way, I just signed up for JetPunk. It's one of my new favorite websites!

Terrific quiz! Very enjoyable and educational --- a great combination!

Gah, one of these days I will learn to spell d'Urbervilles...wrote a paper on it once and had to look it up every time. I always forget the apostrophe, or the second "r," or turn the first "e" into a different vowel.

Well, I find this list rather odd. No 'A Clockwork Orange' or 'Brave New World'. And I'm happy to see Phillip K. Dick on the list, but would have thought that 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?' would have been the choice. Same with Jonathan Lethem; 'Gun, With Occasional Music' would seem like a better choice.

It's Mary Shelley, not Shelly. And you should accept Pere Goriot for Le Pere Goriot.

Good list! Never read #1. But looks like I have to clear my schedule for a year to do so! It has 3,200 pages.

no hobbit or lord of the rings, best novels my ass.

What standards were these books rated on anyway? No "To Kill a Mockingbird" or "Slaughter-House 5"?

What about "Lonesome Dove"--a modern American classic? Did I see no Victor Hugo? And what about "The Lord of the Rings"? The list was fun, but purely a matter of opinion and sometimes, I think, elitist snobbery. I'm glad "Harry Potter" was included on the list. It is a fabulous series. Any good read is worth reading, no matter if it does not contains enough "big words" to make some of us feel above the lowly masses who enjoy reading a so-called children's book. It was actually full of thought-provoking ideals and classic conflict of good vs. evil I'm surprised "An American Tragedy" wasn't on the list.

Victor Hugo was there - Les Miserables

Wow, I read Wuthering Heights two months ago and I completely forgot about it! :(

I don't know why so many people are upset about what books are on this list. It's ONE PERSONS opinion.

i have heard of 4 of these books total....

oh man, so many books i need to get too. only got 32 and most of those i read last year. reading war & peace right now

Hmmm ... I got 51 out of 100 right, and this beats or equals 97.9% of test takers! Some that I missed I actually knew, but couldn't spell. Anyway, great quiz! Thanks.

Can you moderate the quiz that original titles also work; e.g. "Der Process" for "The Trial" and furthermore "Le Père Goriot" for "Le Pere Goriot"? BTW, however made this list hasn't read a quarter of those books. Many of them are just BS. German is my original language and I can assure that Thomas Mann is an horrible, highly-overrated author.

BTW @ShoTheVipa: I found A Clockwork Orange a rather dull and boring book, the film was a thousand times better. But I got your point.

I got 30/100. Should've gotten closer to 40 but my brain has atrophied over this short amount of summer. I agree with the flaws, and some of these I haven't heard of, but it was fun nonetheless, and people need to not flip over his opinions.

Seriously? Harry Potter over Lolita?!

This quiz is frustrating if you don't know the engish titles.

After blowing this royally (maybe if it were a well known listing instead of just some guy), the Phillip K Dick (#99) book is "Valis."

I spent half the time trying to get the P K Dick novel. I must've tried 10 Dick novels. Never even thought of Ubik. Unusual choice.

I got only 18 and that somehow beat the average? lol. I should know more but what can I say its hard for me to stomach fiction

Given all the great novels left off this list, the inclusion of friggin Harry Potter is an egregious insult.