Western Canon reading path
Great Novels
Ten capacious novels that demonstrate what the form can contain.
How to use this reading path
The sequence moves from the self-conscious birth of the modern novel through social realism, psychological extremity, and twentieth-century reinvention.
- Books
- 10
- Estimated hours
- 520
- Suggested pace
- 14 months
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
The reading order
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Find available editions on Bookshop.org
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Find available editions on Bookshop.org
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Find available editions on Bookshop.org
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Find available editions on Bookshop.org
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Find available editions on Bookshop.org
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Find available editions on Bookshop.org
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Find available editions on Bookshop.org
- Middlemarch by George Eliot Find available editions on Bookshop.org
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Find available editions on Bookshop.org
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Get the recommended edition
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