The Novel Books
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Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.68 — 335,132 ratings — published 1719
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.87 — 963,046 ratings — published 1955
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.80 — 884,864 ratings — published 1861
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.71 — 382,380 ratings — published 1856
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,117,740 ratings — published 1866
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,345,430 ratings — published 1885
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.14 — 55,155 ratings — published 1931
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,003 ratings — published 1927
The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.15 — 152 ratings — published 2010
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.91 — 310,421 ratings — published 1605
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,003,530 ratings — published 1815
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.29 — 1,688 ratings — published 1357
The Novel: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.19 — 195 ratings — published 2014
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.81 — 220,137 ratings — published 1927
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,955 ratings — published 1987
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,661,253 ratings — published 1988
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.76 — 67 ratings — published 1987
The Marrow Thieves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,403 ratings — published 2017
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.15 — 794,094 ratings — published 1817
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,833 ratings — published 2010
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,250 ratings — published 2018
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.28 — 434,884 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,609,759 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,943,856 ratings — published 1999
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,679,181 ratings — published 1945
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.01 — 114,671 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,229 ratings — published 1983
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.04 — 182,889 ratings — published 1872
The General in His Labyrinth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.69 — 26,315 ratings — published 1989
The Book of Daniel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,017 ratings — published 1971
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,425 ratings — published 1919
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,298 ratings — published 1973
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.16 — 49 ratings — published 2013
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.86 — 88,603 ratings — published 1987
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,504,958 ratings — published 1969
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.40 — 66,164 ratings — published 1997
The Tunnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,069 ratings — published 1995
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.18 — 348,362 ratings — published 1995
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.10 — 556,072 ratings — published 1984
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.14 — 401,229 ratings — published 1980
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,028,771 ratings — published 1925
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,573 ratings — published 1996
Darconville's Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.28 — 623 ratings — published 1981
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.99 — 394,098 ratings — published 1937
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.79 — 502,287 ratings — published 1926
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,115,282 ratings — published 1932
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 4.12 — 530,348 ratings — published 1928
악당만 취급합니다 [Agdangman Chwigeubhabnida] (I Only Treat Villains)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 3.43 — 30 ratings — published 2021
Not Quite Dead Yet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 3.99 — 201,828 ratings — published 2025
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,295,272 ratings — published 2011
“To be fair to them, they were only after something that walled them off from the past and from people in general, not something that offered any connection that might prove painful or human. Thet wanted stories, I came to realise, in which they were already imprisoned, not stories in which they appeared along with the storyteller, accomplices in escaping.”
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
“It's both an alternative history of the novel and a history of the alternative novel.”
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

