My Favourite Prose Writers

35 stars
1846 The Double***
1848 White Nights**
1849 A Little Hero*
1859 The Village of Stepanchikovo***
1861 Humiliated and Insulted***
1862 The House of the Dead***
1864 Notes from Underground***
1866 Crime and Punishment***
1866 The Gambler***
1868 The Idiot***
1870 The Eternal Husband***
1876 The Meek One*
1877 The Dream of a Ridiculous Man*
1880 The Brothers Karamazov***

33 stars
1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles***
1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd***
1929 The Seven Dials Mystery***
1930 The Murder at the Vicarage***
1934 Murder on the Orient Express***
1936 The A.B.C. Murders***
1936 Cards on the Table***
1937 Death on the Nile***
1939 And Then There Were None***
1942 The Body in the Library***
1974 Curtain***

32 stars
1946 Over to You***
1948 Sometime Never***
1953 Someone Like You***
1960 Kiss Kiss***
1961 James and the Giant Peach**
1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory**
1970 Fantastic Mr Fox**
1975 Danny the Champion of the World*
1979 My Uncle Oswald***
1981 George’s Marvelous Medicine**
1982 The BFG**
1984 Boy: Tales of Childhood***
1988 Matilda**

26 stars
1838 Oliver Twist***
1839 Nicholas Nickleby***
1841 The Old Curiosity Shop***
1843 A Christmas Carol**
1853 Bleak House***
1854 Hard Times***
1855 Little Dorrit***
1859 A Tale of Two Cities***
1861 Great Expectations***

25 stars
1852 Childhood***
1869 War and Peace***
1877 Anna Karenina***
1886 The Death of Ivan Ilyich**
1886 Ivan the Fool*
1886 How Much Land Does a Man Need?*
1889 The Devil**
1890 The Kreutzer Sonata**
1899 Resurrection***
1904 The Forged Coupon**
1905 Alyosha Gorshok*
1912 Hadji Murat**

24 stars
1982 La Casa de los Espiritus***
1984 De Amor y de Sombra***
1987 Eva Luna***
1990 Cuentos de Eva Luna***
1991 El Plan Infinito***
1999 Hija de la Fortuna***
2002 La Ciudad de las Bestias***
2014 El Juego de Ripper***

22 stars
1938 Brighton Rock***
1940 The Power and the Glory***
1947 The Destructors*
1950 The Third Man***
1951 The End of the Affair***
1955 The Quiet American***
1958 Our Man in Havana***
1978 The Human Factor***

19 stars
1987 Norwegian Wood***
1993 The Elephant Vanishes***
1995 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle***
2002 Kafka on the Shore***
2006 Tony Takitani*
2010 1Q84***
2017 Killing Commendatore***

18 stars
1811 Sense and Sensibility***
1813 Pride and Prejudice***
1814 Mansfield Park***
1815 Emma***
1817 Persuasion***
1818 Northanger Abbey***

18 stars
1872 Under the Greenwood Tree***
1874 Far from the Madding Crowd***
1883 The Three Strangers*
1885 A Mere Interlude*
1887 The Woodlanders***
1890 Barbara of the House of Grebe*
1891 Tess of the d’Urbervilles***
1895 Jude the Obscure***

18 stars
1887 A Study in Scarlet***
1890 The Sign of the Four***
1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes***
1892 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes***
1902 The Hound of the Baskervilles***
1912 The Lost World***

18 stars
1955 El Triple Campeón Revela Sus Secretos***
1967 Cien Años de Soledad***
1967 Los Funerales de Mama Grande***
1972 La Increíble y Triste Historia de la Cándida Eréndira y de Su Abuela Desalmada***
1981 Crónica de una muerta anunciada***
1985 El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera***

17 stars
1906 Unterm Rad***
1908 In der alten Sonne*
1919 Demian***
1922 Siddharta**
1928 Der Steppenwolf***
1930 Narziß und Goldmund***
1932 Die Morgenlandfahrt**

17 stars
1867 Thérèse Raquin***
1880 Nana***
1880 Madame Sourdis**
1883 Au Bonheur des Dames***
1885 Germinal***
1890 La Bête humaine***

17 stars
1953 De Kapellekensbaan***
1955 Menuet**
1958 De Paradijsvogel***
1971 Pieter Daens***
1972 Mieke Maaike's Obscene Jeugd***
1980 Eros en de Eenzame Man***

15 stars
1959 Het Stenen Bruidsbed***
1975 Twee Vrouwen***
1982 De Aanslag****
1992 De Ontdekking van de Hemel***
1998 De Procedure***

15 stars
1931 La Tête d’un homme***
1933 Les Fiançailles de Monsieur Hire***
1954 Maigret à l’école***
1955 Maigret tend un piège***
1955 Maigret et le corps sans tête***

15 stars
1993 Le Sabotage amoureux
1999 Stupeur et tremblements
2000 Métaphysique des tubes
2003 Antécrista
2007 Ni d’Ève ni d’Adam

15 stars
2004 Spieltrieb***
2007 Schilf***
2009 Corpus Delicti***
2012 Nullzeit***
2016 Unterleuten***

14 stars
1878 Daisy Miller**
1881 The Portrait of a Lady***
1888 The Aspern Papers**
1892 The Real Thing*
1898 The Turn of the Screw***
1904 The Golden Bowl***

14 stars
1829 Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné**
1831 Notre-Dame de Paris***
1862 Les Misérables***
1869 L’Homme qui rit***
1874 Quatrevingt-treize***

14 stars
1967 Žert [The Joke]***
1984 Nesnesitelná Lehkost Bytí [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]***
1990 Immortality [Nesmrtelost]***
1995 La Lenteur**
1998 L'Identité***

14 stars
1901 Buddenbrooks***
1912 Der Tod in Venedig**
1924 Der Zauberberg***
1939 Lotte in Weimar***
1947 Doktor Faustus***

14 stars
1945 Pippi Långstrump**
1946 Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist**
1947 Alla vi Barn i Bullerbyn**
1961 Lotta på Bråkmakargatan**
1963 Emil i Lönneberga**
1973 Bröderna Lejonhjärta**
1981 Ronja Rövardotter**

13 stars
1838 Ligeia
1839 The Fall of the House of Usher*
1841 A Descent Into the Maelstrom*
1841 The Murders in the Rue Morgue*
1842 The Oval Portrait*
1842 The Masque of the Red Death*
1843 The Pit and the Pendulum*
1843 The Tell-Tale Heart*
1843 The Black Cat*
1844 The Oblong Box*
1845 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar*
1845 The Imp of the Perverse*
1846 The Cask of Amontillado*

12 stars
1886 Romance with Double Bass*
1886 A Dreadful Night*
1886 The Orator*
1889 The Bet*
1889 The Princess*
1892 Ward No. 6**
1894 The Black Monk*
1894 Rothschild's Violin*
1896 My Life**
1899 The Lady with the Dog*

12 stars
2004 Isprinsessan***
2005 Stenhuggaran***
2008 Tyskungen***
2011 Änglamakarskan***

12 stars
1926 Clouds of Witness***
1928 The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club***
1930 Strong Poison***
1933 Murder Must Advertize***

12 stars
1966 La Casa Verde***
1981 La Guerra del Fin del Mundo***
1996 La Fiesta del Chivo***
2016 Cinco Esquinas***

12 stars
1956 De Koele Minnaar***
1962 De Verwondering***
1972 Het Jaar van de Kreeft***
1982 Het Verdriet van België***

12 stars
1962 The Golden Notebook***
1971 Briefing for a Descent Into Hell***
1974 The Memoirs of a Survivor***
1988 The Fifth Child***

12 stars
1998 Benim Adim Kirmizi [My Name Is Red]
2002 Kar [Snow]
2008 Masumiyet Müzesi [The Museum of Innocence]
2021 Veba Geceleri [Nights of Plague]

11 stars
1936 Keep the Aspidistra Flying***
1939 Coming Up for Air***
1945 Animal Farm**
1949 1984***

11 stars
1936 Jamaica Inn***
1945 Rebecca***
1951 My Cousin Rachel***
1952 The Birds*
1971 Don’t Look Now*

11 stars
1935 Tortilla Flat***
1937 Of Mice and Men**
1939 The Grapes of Wrath***
1952 East of Eden***

11 stars
1913 Villa des Roses***
1924 Lijmen***
1933 Kaas***
1946 Het Dwaallicht**

11 stars
1917 The Mark on the Wall*
1920 Solid Objects*
1925 Mrs Dalloway***
1927 To the Lighthouse***
1928 Orlando***

10 stars
1835 Nevsky Prospekt*
1835 Diary of a Madman*
1835 Taras Bulba**
1836 The Nose*
1836 The Carriage*
1842 The Overcoat*
1842 Dead Souls***

10 stars
1895 The Time Machine**
1896 The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham*
1898 The War of the Worlds***
1897 The Invisible Man***
1904 The Country of the Blind*

9 stars
1930 The Lyuzhin Defense***
1933 Camera Obscura***
1955 Lolita***

9 stars
1883 La Ficelle*
1883 Denis*
1884 L’Héritage**
1884 La Parure*
1884 L’Armoire*
1885 Toine*
1886 La Question du latin*
1890 L’Inutile Beauté*

9 stars
1914 Dubliners***
1914 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man***
1922 Ulysses***

9 stars
1905 The House of Mirth***
1911 Ethan Frome**
1920 The Age of Innocence***
1934 Roman Fever*

9 stars
1857 Rudin***
1859 Home of the Gentry***
1862 Fathers and Sons***

9 stars
1864 Voyage au centre de la terre***
1870 Vingt mille lieues sous les mers***
1872 Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours***

9 stars
1931 The Good Earth***
1946 Pavilion of Women***
1948 Peony***

9 stars
1998 Tipping the Velvet***
2002 Fingersmith***
2014 The Paying Guests***

9 stars
1908 A Room with a View***
1910 Howards End***
1971 Maurice***

9 stars
1950 Strangers on a Train***
1955 The Talented Mr. Ripley***
1957 Deep Water***

9 stars
1963 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold***
1974 Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy***
1989 The Russia House***