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Those would all be mine, too, although I could quibble
a bit if required (I wouldn't include the Illiad
because it's not a novel; I might suggest House of the
Seven Gables instead of The Scarlet Letter; I wouldn't
include those sci-fi novels). 

Here are my all-time favorites, not in any particular
order once past the top 2.  My primary criterion is
novels that demand and sustain multiple readings:  all
of these have drawn me back for a second reading, some
of them I've read a third time, the rest draw me back
for readings beyond that.

Moby Dick
Gravity's Rainbow
Journey to the West (Anthony Yu translation)
Story of the Stone (aka Dream of the Red Chamber) 
A la recherche du temps perdu
Madame Bovary 
L'education sentimentale
Le rouge et le noir (Stendhal)
Voyage au bout de la nuit (Celine)
Les filles du feu (Nerval)
Les miserables
Brothers Karamozov
Crime and Punishment
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Don Quixote
Bleak House 
Thousand Cranes (Kawabata)
House of Sleeping Beauties (Kawabata)
Catch-22
Under the Volcano
Lolita
100 Years of Solitude
Huckleberry Finn
Great Gatsby
The Sound and the Fury
1984
V.
Mason & Dixon
The Crying of Lot 49
Vineland







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