十大、百大、年度、評選、票選、必讀的文學小說以及推理小說
先來看看由英國作家威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆（William Somerset Maugham）於1948年出版的著作（後來在1954年改寫，書名改為Ten Novels and Their Authors），討論他心目中十部偉大的長篇小說及其作者。
世界十大小說家及其代表作
Great Novelists and Their Novels
- 1749, 湯姆·瓊斯 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- 1813, 傲慢與偏見 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- 1830, 紅與黑 Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal
- 1834~1835, 高老頭 Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- 1847, 咆哮山莊 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- 1849~1850, 大衛·科波菲爾 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- 1851, 白鯨記 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- 1856, 包法利夫人 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- 1865~1869, 戰爭與和平 War and Peace by Tolstoy
- 1879, 卡拉馬佐夫兄弟 The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
20世紀百大英文小說
Modern Library 100 Best Novels
1998年7月，由美國現代圖書公司（Modern Library）所選出的20世紀一百大英文長篇小說，評選小組由紐約公共圖書館（New York Public Library, NYPL）《世紀之書》以及藍燈書屋（Random House）《當代文庫》的編輯組成。
評選分為編輯小組以及讀者票選。
20世紀百大英文小說 - 維基百科
時代雜誌百大英文小說
The All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels
2005年美國《時代雜誌》所提出的100部最佳英文長篇小說及10部最佳圖像小說書單。評選範圍是1923年後出版（該雜誌創刊）的英文長篇小說，評選者是時代雜誌社內兩位書評家拉卡尤（Richard Lacayo）與葛羅斯曼（Lev Grossman）。
時代雜誌百大英文小說 - 維基百科
Amazon：人生必讀的一百本書
Amazon: 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
- "1984" by George Orwell
- 時間簡史 "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
- "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers
- 長路漫漫 "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah
- 波特萊爾的冒險 "A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition" by Lemony Snicket
- 時間的皺摺 "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
- "Alice Munro: Selected Stories" by Alice Munro
- 愛麗絲夢遊仙境 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
- 驚天大陰謀 "All the President's Men" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- 安琪拉的灰燼 "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
- "Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret" by Judy Blume
- "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
- 寵兒 "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
- 天生就會跑 "Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall
- "Breath, Eyes, Memory" by Edwidge Danticat
- 第二十二條軍規 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
- 查理與巧克力工廠 "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
- 夏綠蒂特的網 "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
- 雙生石 "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese
- 脆弱的力量 "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead" by Brene Brown
- "Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1" by Jeff Kinney
- 沙丘 "Dune" by Frank Herbert
- 華氏451度 "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
- "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
- 控制 "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
- "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown
- 遠大前程 "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
- 槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵 "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
- 哈利波特 神秘的魔法石 "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
- 冷血 "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
- "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
- 隱形人 "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
- 吉米柯瑞根：地球上最聰明的小子 "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth" by Chris Ware
- 廚房秘事 "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain
- 死亡回憶 "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson
- 大草原之家 "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- 羅莉塔 "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
- "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich
- "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
- "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
- "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
- "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
- "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis
- "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham
- "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
- "Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen
- "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
- "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth
- "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
- "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
- "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
- "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
- "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon
- "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- 偷書賊 "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
- "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
- 麥田捕手 "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
- "The Color of Water" by James McBride
- "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
- "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson
- "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank
- "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
- 記憶傳承人 "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
- "The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman
- 大亨小傳 "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
- "The House At Pooh Corner" by A. A. Milne
- 飢餓遊戲 "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
- "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
- "The Liars' Club: A Memoir" by Mary Karr
- 神火之賊 "The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)" by Rick Riordan
- 小王子 "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler
- "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright
- 魔戒 "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
- "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales" by Oliver Sacks
- "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" by Michael Pollan
- "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
- "The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver
- "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert A. Caro
- "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe
- "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
- "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
- 鬼店 "The Shining" by Stephen King
- "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
- "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
- "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
- "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle
- "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
- "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel" by Haruki Murakami
- "The World According to Garp" by John Irving
- "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
- "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
- "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand
- "Valley of the Dolls" by Jacqueline Susann
- "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
- "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak
Amazon.com: 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime: Books
BBC - The Big Read - Top 100 Books
2003年4月，由BBC的「The Big Read」中挑選出100本最優秀的小說。
- 魔戒 The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- 傲慢與偏見 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- 黑暗元素 His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- 銀河便車指南The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- 哈利波特 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
- 梅崗城故事 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- 小熊維尼 Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- 簡愛 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- 咆哮山莊 Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- 麥田捕手 The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
- 戰爭與和平 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- 哈利波特 神秘的魔法石 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
- 哈利波特 消失的密室 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
- 哈利波特 阿茲卡班的逃犯 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
- 哈比人 The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
- 憤怒的葡萄 The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- 愛麗絲夢遊仙境 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
- 百年孤寂 One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
- The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- 金銀島 Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- 沙丘 Dune, Frank Herbert
- 艾瑪 Emma, Jane Austen
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- 大亨小傳 The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
- 基督山恩仇記 The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- 動物農莊 Animal Farm, George Orwell
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- 遠離塵囂 Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
- Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
- The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
- 末日逼近 The Stand, Stephen King
- 安娜‧卡列尼娜 Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
- Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
- Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 罪與罰 Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
- Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
- A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- 刺鳥 The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
- Mort, Terry Pratchett
- The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
- The Magus, John Fowles
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
- 蒼蠅王 Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
- 香水 Perfume, Patrick Süskind
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
- Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
- Matilda, Roald Dahl
- BJ單身日記 Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
- 尤里西斯 Ulysses, James Joyce
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Twits, Roald Dahl
- I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
- Holes, Louis Sachar
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
- 美麗新世界 Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- Magician, Raymond E Feist
- On The Road, Jack Kerouac
- 教父 The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
- The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Katherine, Anya Seton
- Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
- Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
- Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
The Observer 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
2003年10月由英國《觀察家報》選出的100本最棒的小說。
The Observer 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
一百本必讀的書
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library (100 books)
上面幾個列表，稍微看看就會發現大多都重疊不少本。
接下來是幾個我特別有興趣類型書，犯罪、推理小說。
百大犯罪小說
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
1990年由英國犯罪作家協會所選出百大犯罪小說。
百大犯罪小說 - 維基百科（僅列出前20名）
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - Wikipedia
週刊文春百大推理小說
週刊文春ミステリーベスト100
日本文藝春秋發行的週刊雜誌《週刊文春》在1985年所選出的100部最佳推理小說，由推理作家與推理小説愛好者約500名所投票選出，在《週刊文春》1985年8月29日號與9月5日號上發表。2012年《週刊文春》再度舉行投票，並在2013年1月4日臨時増刊號上發表。
中文的維基百科裡只有列出日本篇的排名。
讓我在意的是，1985年版總共只有98名，而2012年版則有102名。
週刊文春百大推理小說 - 維基百科
東西ミステリーベスト100 - Wikipedia
週刊文春年度前十推理小說
週刊文春ミステリーベスト10
另外週刊文春每年也都有推理小說排名。
週刊文春ミステリーベスト10
這本推理小說真厲害！
このミステリーがすごい!
這是由日本寶島社『別冊寶島』發行的推理小說導覽書，1988年開始排名。
排名同樣有國際篇和日本篇。
這本推理小說真厲害！ - 維基百科
このミステリーがすごい! - Wikipedia
本格推理小說 Best 10
本格ミステリベスト10
由日本偵探小説研究會編著的推理小説排行書，每年12月由原書房發行。
本格是一種推理小說的流派，一般也稱為正宗、正統、古典派或傳統派。以邏輯至上的推理解謎為主，與注重寫實的社會派流派相對，不注重寫實，而以驚險離奇的情節與耐人尋味的詭計，通過邏輯推理展開情節。
著名的作家像是Ellery Queen、江戶川亂步、橫溝正史以及被稱為新本格的島田莊司。
本格推理小說 Best 10 - 維基百科
本格ミステリベスト10 - Wikipedia
我想讀推理小說！
ミステリが読みたい!
由早川書房於2007年開始發行的推理小說排名書。
ミステリが読みたい! - Wikipedia
同時提一下，在中國有所謂的四大奇書，也就是《水滸傳》、《三國演義》、《西遊記》和《金瓶梅》這四本章回小說，後來也有不少人以《紅樓夢》取代《金瓶梅》這樣的說法。
而在日本也有所謂推理小說四大奇書一說。
最初是由夢野久作的《腦髓地獄》、小栗蟲太郎的《黑死館殺人事件》以及中井英夫的《獻給虛無的供物》被稱為「日本三大推理奇書」，亦有「日本異端文學史三大偉業」、「日本偵探小説三大高峰」和「日本本格偵探小説三大高峰」的稱號。
後來則加上了竹本健治的《匣中失樂》，成為日本推理四大奇書。
- 夢野久作《腦髓地獄》，1935年
- 小栗蟲太郎《黑死館殺人事件》，1934年
- 中井英夫《獻給虛無的供物》，1964年
- 竹本健治《匣中失樂》，1977年