My favorites:
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
- Joseph Heller – Catch-22
Great (5/5):
- Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon
- Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
- Lev Tolstoy – Death of Ivan Ilych
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Journey to the End of Night
- Richard Wright – Native Son
- Viet Thanh Nyugen – The Sympathizer
- Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
Good (4/5):
- Albert Camus – The Stranger
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago
- Bret Easton Elis – American Psycho
- Carson McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Dalton Trumbo – Johnny Got His Gun
- E.L. Doctorow – Ragtime
- Flann O’Brien – The Third Policeman
- Franz Kafka – Metamorphosis
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Notes from Underground
- Herman Hesse – Steppenwolf
- Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
- Isabel Allende – The House of Spirits
- Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
- James A. Michener – Tales of the South Pacific
- John Brunner – Stand on Zanzibar
- John Fowles – The Magus
- John Milton – Paradise Lost
- John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
- John Steinbeck – East of Eden
- Joseph Conrad – Nostromo
- Leo Tolstoy – War & Peace
- Martin Amis – Money
- Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita
- Normal Mailer – The Executioner’s Song
- Oscar Wilde – The Portrait of Dorian Gray
- Pearl S. Buck – The Good Earth
- Robert Stone – Dog Soldiers
- Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
- Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
- Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
- W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage
Fine (3/5):
- Albert Camus – The Plague
- Arnold Bennett – The Old Wives’ Tale
- Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
- Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
- Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian
- D.H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
- Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
- El Doctorow – World’s Fair
- Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood
- Ford Madox Ford – Good Soldier
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Idiot
- Erskine Caldwell – Tobacco Road
- Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
- Herman Melville – Bartleby the Scrivener
- H.G. Wells – The History of Mr. Polly
- Honore de Balzac – Father Goriot
- Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
- Iris Murdoch – A Severed Head
- Ivan Turgenev – The Diary of a Superfluous Man
- Jack Kerouac – On the Road
- Jack London – The Call of the Wild
- James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
- Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility
- John Cheever – The Wapshot Chronicle
- John Steinbeck – The Winter of our Discontent
- John O’Hara – Appointment in Samarra
- J. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
- Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men on the Bummel
- John Fowles – The Collector
- John Steinback – Of Mice and Men
- Jorge Luis Borges – The Aleph and Other Stories
- José Saramago – Blindness
- José Saramago – The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
- José Saramago – Cain
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
- Lionel Shriver – We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Naguib Mahfouz – Children of Gebelawi
- Nikolai Gogol – Dead Souls
- Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead
- Paul Auster – City of Glass
- Paul Auster – Ghosts
- Paul Bowles – Sheltering Sky
- Penelope Fitzgerald – Offshore
- Pete Dexter – Paris Trout
- Philip Roth – American Pastoral
- Philip Roth – Nemesis
- Richard Hughes – A High Wind in Jamaica
- Robert Penn Warrens – All the King’s Men
- Saul Bellow – Seize the Day
- Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March
- Sincalir lewis – Babbitt
- Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49
- Tim O’Brien – Going After Cacciato
- Tim O’Brien – The Things They Carried
- Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
- Vladimir Nabokov – The Real life of Sebastian Knight
- William Golding – Lord of the Flies
Meh (2/5):
- D.H. Lawrence – The Virgin and the Gipsy
- E.M. Forster – Howards End
- Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
- Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
- Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
- Ivan Turgenev – First Love
- Jacqueline Woodson – Another Brooklyn
- Joan Didion – Play It as It Lays
- Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
- Lawrence Durrell – Justine
- Lawrence Durrell – Balthazar
- Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano
- Marcel Proust – Swan’s Way
- Marcel Proust – Within a Budding Grove
- Marcel Proust – The Guermantes Way
- Muriek Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Paul Auster – The Locked Room
- Paul Harding – Tinkers
- Rudyard Kipling – Kim
- Walker Percy – The Moviegoer
- Willa Cather – My Antonia
- William Shakespeare – The Tempest
- William Styron – Lie Down in Darkness
- Yasunari Kawabata – Snow Country
Bad (1/5):
- Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
- Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
Crap (0/5):