10 Greatest Novels Of All Time

Zee Media Bureau
Jun 12, 2023

Anna Karenina

Written by Leo Tolstoy in 1878. A story about a landowner who fights with philosophy and faith, together with a jaded housewife named Anna, who flees with their young lover.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Written by Harper Lee in 1960. The discrimination in the American South, through the innocent eyes of a bright young girl named Jean Louise

The Great Gatsby

Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. From the perspective of recently arriving in New York City, Nick Carraway quickly becomes friends with his odd new-money neighbors

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1967. The story of seven generations of a family follows the establishment of their town Macondo

A Passage to India

Written by E.M. Forster in 1924. A story about a Muslim Indian doctor and his relationships with an English and a visiting English schoolteacher

Invisible Man

Written by Ralph Ellison in 1952. The story is about a groundbreaking novel in the expression of identity for the African American male

Don Quixote

Written by Miguel de Cervantes in 1615. The tale of a guy who adopts the persona of "Don Quixote de la Mancha" and, inspired by romantic tales about bravery

Beloved

Written by Toni Morrison in 1987. The story is about Sethe, an escaped slave who fled to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873

Mrs.Dalloway

Written by Virginia Woolf in 1925. The story is about a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a British socialite

Things Fall Apart

Written by Chinua Achebe in 1958. The story centers on an Igbo man and tells about his family, his Nigerian town, and the effects of British colonialism on his home nation

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