This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: Novel
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
- This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
- 1984 by George Orwell
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Divided Loyalties by Nilofar Shidmehr
- The Collector by John Fowles
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Guest by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
- Jonas, or The Artist at Work by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
- You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
- The Voiceless by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- The Beastly Arms by Patrick Jennings
- The Beast by Walter Dean Myers
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Adulterous Wife by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- Notes To My Biographer by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- Divination by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
- Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote
- Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
- A Painful Case by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- The Dead by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- The Growing Stone by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Saving Lilly by Peg Kehret
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Reunion by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- War's End by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- Eveline by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- My Father's Business by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- The Beginnings Of Grief by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- Rabbit, Run by John Updike
- Bartleby and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
- The Good Doctor by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- Devotion by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Clay by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- Counterparts by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- The Boarding House by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- Grace by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- A Little Cloud by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- Ivy Day In The Committee Room by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- After The Race by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- Two Gallants by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- The Renegade, or A Confused Mind by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- The Volunteer by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Araby by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- The Sisters by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- A Mother by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
- An Encounter by James Joyce (Dubliners)
- The River Why by David James Duncan
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
