User:Errabee/canon list of novels

This list reflects my personal views on novels and short stories that should be considered canon at this moment (either by literary merits, popular demand, or a combination of both). The number of novels in this list is based upon the number of articles in scope of the WikiProject Novels. 1% of that number rounded down is the number of novels in this list. As there are currently (as of 25 January) 8083 articles in scope, 80 articles will be considered canon. Of course this list is entirely my opinion, and I don't have any degree in literature, so my opinions will probably differ from an expert's opinion.

Based on literary merit solely

 * 1) A Christmas Carol
 * 2) A Hero of Our Time
 * 3) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * 4) All Quiet on the Western Front
 * 5) Animal Farm
 * 6) Anna Karenina
 * 7) Brave New World
 * 8) Crime and Punishment
 * 9) David Copperfield
 * 10) Dead Souls
 * 11) Death In Venice
 * 12) Doctor Zhivago
 * 13) Don Quixote
 * 14) Eugene Onegin
 * 15) Fathers and Sons
 * 16) Frankenstein
 * 17) Great Expectations
 * 18) Gulliver's Travels
 * I, Claudius
 * 1) Jane Eyre
 * 2) Lady Chatterley's Lover
 * 3) Les Misérables
 * 4) Lolita
 * 5) Madame Bovary
 * 6) Max Havelaar
 * 7) Moby-Dick
 * 8) Nineteen Eighty-Four
 * 9) Oblomov
 * 10) Oliver Twist
 * 11) Pride and Prejudice
 * 12) Quo Vadis
 * 13) Robinson Crusoe
 * 14) The Brothers Karamazov
 * 15) The Captain's Daughter
 * 16) The Count of Monte Cristo
 * 17) The Death of Ivan Ilyich
 * 18) The Decameron
 * 19) The Fatal Eggs
 * 20) The Good Soldier Švejk
 * 21) The Grapes of Wrath
 * 22) The Heart of a Dog
 * 23) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 * 24) The Idiot
 * 25) The Lady with the Dog
 * 26) The Master and Margarita
 * 27) The Nose
 * 28) The Old Man and the Sea
 * 29) The Overcoat
 * 30) The Plague
 * 31) The Picture of Dorian Gray
 * 32) The Queen of Spades
 * 33) The Satanic Verses
 * 34) The Sorrows of Young Werther
 * 35) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
 * 36) The Three Musketeers
 * 37) The Tin Drum
 * 38) The Trial
 * 39) The White Guard
 * 40) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
 * 41) The War of the Worlds
 * 42) Treasure Island
 * 43) Ulysses
 * 44) Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * 45) War and Peace
 * 46) Winnie-the-Pooh
 * 47) Wuthering Heights

Based on literary merit and popular demand
Without the popular demand, these novels would not have made it into this list, as they have significant lesser literary merit than the novels in the first category.
 * 1) Death on the Nile
 * 2) Dracula
 * 3) Erast Fandorin
 * 4) Hercule Poirot
 * 5) Miss Marple
 * 6) Murder on the Orient Express
 * 7) Sherlock Holmes
 * 8) Tarzan of the Apes
 * 9) The Hound of the Baskervilles
 * 10) The Lord of the Rings
 * 11) The Name of the Rose
 * 12) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Based on popular demand solely
Hardly any literary merit, but so popular at this time, one could not leave it out at this time.
 * 1) Harry Potter
 * 2) The Da Vinci Code

Summary by language

 * 40 English
 * 22 Russian
 * 7 French
 * 5 German
 * 2 Italian
 * 1 Czech
 * 1 Dutch
 * 1 Polish
 * 1 Spanish