This is a list of the best novels I have encountered (so far) with links to their respective reviews as they are written. Notably missing will be nonfiction, poetry, plays, and short stories, all to be found elsewhere.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Karamazov Brothers (1880)
- Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote de la Mancha (1620)
- Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire (1962)
- Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997)
- Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979)
- Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves (2000)
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (1952)
- John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
- Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time (1913)
- David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest (1996)
- William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (1818)
- Thomas Pynchon - V. (1963)
- James Joyce - Ulysses (1920)
- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (1963)
- André Gide - The Immoralist (1902)
- Sesshu Foster - Atmoik Aztex (2005)
- Cormac McCarthy - Suttree (1979)
- Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (1867)
- Franz Kafka - The Trial (1925)
- Émile Zola - The Ladies' Paradise (1883)
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea (1938)
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
- Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain (1924)
- Albert Camus - The Stranger (1942)
- Samuel Beckett - The Unnamable (1953)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)
- Voltaire - Candide (1759)
- Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
- Sadegh Heyadat - The Blind Owl (1937)
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (1963)
- Samuel Johnson - The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)
- Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Henry James - The Golden Bowl (1904)
- William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch (1959)
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick (1851)
- Bram Stoker - Dracula (1897)
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
- Doris May Lessing - The Golden Notebook (1962)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons or The Possessed (1872)
- Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
- André Breton - Nadja (1928)
- Don DeLillo - White Noise (1985)
- Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye (1970)
- William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises (1926)
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (1954)
- Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)
- Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye (1953)
- Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls (1842)