100 Novel Terbaik Dunia

The Lord of the Rings adalah novel terbaik di dunia yang telah dinobatkan oleh Korando (Koran Anak Indonesia). Novel hebat ini adalah novel kisah fantasi epik karangan J. R. R. Tolkien. 

Diterbitkan dalam tiga jilid pada tahun 1954 dan 1955, masing-masing jilid terdiri dari dua buku. Jilid pertama diberi judul The Fellowship of the Ring, jilid kedua The Two Towersdan jilid ketiga The Return of the King. Kisah ini ditulis dari tahun 1937 sampai 1949 dan menjadi salah satu karya sastra abad ke-20 yang paling populer dan diterjemahkan ke dalam 38 bahasa. The Lord of the Rings telah difilmkan tiga kali, yang pertama sebagai film animasi oleh Ralph Bakshi pada tahun 1978 (sebagai bagian pertama dari dua film yang mulanya direncanakan), yang kedua pada tahun 1980 sebagai acara televisi. 

Karya ketiga, trilogi film The Lord of the Rings oleh sutradara Peter Jackson yang dirilis pada tahun 2001, 2002, dan 2003, memenangkan beberapa Academy Awards dan memperbaharui minat publik dalam trilogi ini dan karya Tolkien lainnya. Inilah 100 Novel Terbaik Sepanjang Masa

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

2. To Kill a  Mockingbird, Harper Lee

3. Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling

4. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

5. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

6. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

7. 1984, George Orwell

8. Pride and Prejudice,  Jane Austen

9. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

10. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

The Adventures, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Lolita,  Vladimir Nabokov

Animal Farm, George Orwell

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Ulysses, James Joyce

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

One Hundred Years , Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

Atlas Shrugged,  Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

The Chronicles, Narnia by C.S. Lewis

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

On the Road, Jack Kerouac

Watership Down, Richard Adams

His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

Dune, Frank Herbert

Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

The Stand, Stephen King

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

Middlemarch, George Eliot

The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

Persuasion, Jane Austen

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer

The Trial, Franz Kafka

The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

Emma, Jane Austen

Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

Siddharta, Hermann Hesse

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Atonement, Ian McEwan

The  Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kinsolver

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