Greatest Novel Nomination Thread

[Pharass]

The time has come for all the readers on the forum to come together and decide which is the greatest novel. Before we can begin nominating however, there are a few rules I'd like to go over. They are as follows:

Each member can nominate up to 25 novels, I may expand upon that number if necessary, but for now, that's what we'll start with.
Novels that are part of a series shall be nominated separately.
Finally, this tournament is for novels only; plays and short-story collections will be excluded. I'm on the fence on whether or not graphic novels should be allowed. Personally, I'd rather save them for an eventual greatest comic tournament, but I'd like to hear what you guys think.
Now that we've got all the boring stuff out of the way, let's start nominating. I'll get the ball rolling with the following:

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Nominated Novels:

Spoiler

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin
A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (as one novel)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
And Then There Were None (or Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Congo by Michael Crichton
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Great Brain by John Dennis Fitzgerald
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by James Howe
Nighty Nightmare by James Howe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
Night Watch by Sir Terry Pratchett
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The First Man In Rome by Colleen McCullough
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett
Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Phantastes by George MacDonald
The Princess & The Goblin by George MacDonald
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
Wise Blood by Flannery O' Connor
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O' Connor
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Pelandra by C.S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Stand by Stephen King
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
The High King by Lloyd Alexander
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Rudolph Wyss
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
Dune by Frank Herbert
Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Waystation by Clifford D. Simak
Eight Days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
Shogun by James Clavell
Shadows Linger by Glen Cook
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
The Iron King by Maurice Druon
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Vampire Hunter D Raiser of Gales by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Vampire Hunter D Journey to the Northern Sea Parts 1 and 2 by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
Bloodstone by Karl Edward Wagner
The Knight of Swords by Michael Moorcock
The Queen of Swords by Michael Moorcock
The King of Swords by Michael Moorcock

[close]

[gunswordfist]

Comics should continue to have their own separate tournament.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Yeah, let's keep this competition for just novels. "Graphic novels" is just a another term for comic books, imo, and they should be saved for whenever we do a comics tournament.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Unfortunately, my complete lack of reading quality literature aside from a few classics means that I will not be abke to participate in this tournament. I really should read more novels. Still, I'll toss in a few nominations:

All of the ASOIAF books released so far by George R. R. Martin

All of the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (as one novel)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

And Then There Were None (or Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Timeline by Michael Crichton

Congo by Michael Crichton

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglass Adams

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Also, just to be clear, I'm nominating both the ASOIAF and Harry Potter series as separate entries for each individual novel. I just didn't feel like listing out each one.

On the other hand, TLOTR was always originally meant to be just one book, and has been re-released as such, so I want to nominate it as one book as opposed to an entire series.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Great Brain by John Dennis Fitzgerald
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by James Howe
Nighty Nightmare by James Howe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

[Pharass]

All the novels that have been nominated so far have been added to the OP. Please consult this list in case you're unsure on whether or not a novel is already in the tournament.

[Avaitor]

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

[Pharass]

A few more from me:

Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
Night Watch by Sir Terry Pratchett
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The First Man In Rome by Colleen McCullough

[LumRanmaYasha]

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

[Pharass]

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
American Tabloid by James Ellroy

[Pharass]

Might as well post my nine final choices:

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett
Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

There we go.

[Spark Of Spirit]

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Phantastes by George MacDonald
The Princess & The Goblin by George MacDonald
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
Wise Blood by Flannery O' Connor
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O' Connor
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander (all 5)
The Stand by Stephen King
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Is that acceptable?

[gunswordfist]

Ah, Stephen King. I need to get back to reading American Vampire.

[Pharass]

Is that acceptable?

Perfectly.
By the way, guys: I'm planning to get this tournament started by Saturday, so if you haven't already nominated any novels, now would be the time. Thank you.