So what is the best novel you have a red or even among the best?
Five of my favourite classics (from the first half of the 20th century or earlier):
Anna Karenina - Lev Tolstoy
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Five of my favourite modern novels (second half of 20th century or later):
Illywhacker - Peter Carey
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
Border Crossing - Pat Barker
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon