Random Best Novelists (296 items)

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  (#1) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Russian Empire

  The Double and Notes from the Underground 
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  (#2) Leo Tolstoy

  • Russian Empire

  War and Peace, Anna Karenina
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  (#3) George Orwell

  • England

  Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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  (#4) J. R. R. Tolkien

  • United Kingdom

  Author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Fellowship of the Ring 
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  (#5) Mark Twain

  • United States of America

  Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, gambler, traveler and all-around funny dude. 
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  (#6) Ernest Hemingway

  • United States

  Member of the "Lost generation" and author of The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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  (#7) Charles Dickens

  • United Kingdom

  Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities
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  (#8) Jane Austen

  • United Kingdom

  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice (No, not the zombie version)
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  (#9) John Steinbeck

  • United States of America

  One of the great American writers you were forced to read in High School and probably didn't come to appreciate until later in life. Most famous for The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice And Men, Tortilla Flat
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  (#10) William Faulkner

  • United States of America

  As I Lay Dying, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!
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  (#11) James Joyce

  • Republic of Ireland

  Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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  (#12) Victor Hugo

  • France

  Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  
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  (#13) Miguel de Cervantes

  • Spain

  Don Quixote
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  (#14) F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • United States of America
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  (#15) Franz Kafka

  • Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia

  The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Castle
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  (#16) Joseph Conrad

  • United Kingdom, Russian Empire

  Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim 
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  (#17) Gabriel García Márquez

  • Colombia

  Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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  (#18) Virginia Woolf

  • England

  Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, The Waves
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  (#19) Arthur Conan Doyle

  • Scotland
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  (#20) Albert Camus

  • France
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  (#21) Jules Verne

  • France

  Journey to the Center of the earth
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  (#22) Agatha Christie

  • United Kingdom

  British Crime Writer and Author of And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, the Mousetrap, Death on the Nile"
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  (#23) Alexandre Dumas

  • France
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  (#24) Ray Bradbury

  • United States of America
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  (#25) Aldous Huxley

  • United Kingdom, England

  Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, Island
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  (#26) Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Scotland, United Kingdom
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  (#27) Herman Melville

  • United States of America

  Moby Dick, Billy Budd
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  (#28) Mary Shelley

  • United Kingdom, England

  Author of Frankenstein = All you need to know
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  (#29) Rudyard Kipling

  • England
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  (#30) H. G. Wells

  • United Kingdom, England
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  (#31) Kurt Vonnegut

  • United States of America
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  (#32) C. S. Lewis

  • United Kingdom

  Creator of Narnia and all things in it. 
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  (#33) Jack London

  • United States of America
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  (#34) Hermann Hesse

  • Switzerland, Germany

  Steppenwolf, Siddartha, The Glass Bead Game
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  (#35) Stephen King

  • United States of America
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  (#36) Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

  • United States of America, Russian Empire
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  (#37) J. D. Salinger

  • United States of America

  Catcher in the Rye
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  (#38) Charlotte Brontë

  • England

  Jane Eyre
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  (#39) Marcel Proust

  • France

  In Search of Lost Time (aka Remembrance of Things Past), perhaps excluding Vol. 3, The Guermantes Way
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  (#40) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Holy Roman Empire, German Confederation
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  (#41) J. K. Rowling

  • United Kingdom, England
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  (#42) Emily Brontë

  • England

  Wuthering Heights
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  (#43) George Eliot

  • England

  Silas Marner
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  (#44) Jonathan Swift

  • Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
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  (#45) Gustave Flaubert

  • France

  Madame Bovary, considered to be one of the most influential novels ever written
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  (#46) Honoré de Balzac

  • France
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  (#47) Isaac Asimov

  • United States of America
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  (#48) Bram Stoker

  • Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
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  (#49) Thomas Mann

  • United States of America, German Empire, Czechoslovakia

  The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Doctor Faustus, Joseph and His Brothers, etc.
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  (#50) H. P. Lovecraft

  • United States of America

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