Highest Ranked Novels Prior to 1950

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Place	Score	Year	Title	Type	Authors
1	220	1000	Beowulf	NOVEL	uncredited
2	104	1938	The Sword in the Stone	NOVEL	T. H. White
3	101	1945	Animal Farm	NOVEL	George Orwell
4	85	1946	Slan	NOVEL	A. E. van Vogt
5	77	1944	The Wind on the Moon	NOVEL	Eric Linklater
6	70	1937	The Hobbit, or There and Back Again	NOVEL	J. R. R. Tolkien
7	66	1945	That Hideous Strength	NOVEL	C. S. Lewis
8	64	1949	Nineteen Eighty-Four	NOVEL	George Orwell
9	56	1949	Earth Abides	NOVEL	George R. Stewart
10	55	1943	Conjure Wife	NOVEL	Fritz Leiber
11	50	1949	Red Planet	NOVEL	Robert A. Heinlein
12	50	1948	Beyond This Horizon	NOVEL	Robert A. Heinlein
13	50	1947	The Twenty-One Balloons	NOVEL	William Pène du Bois
14	50	1946	The Little White Horse	NOVEL	Elizabeth Goudge
15	50	1946	Miss Hickory	NOVEL	Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
16	50	1942	The Little Grey Men: A Story for the Young in Heart	NOVEL	BB
17	50	1940	"If This Goes On —"	NOVEL	Robert A. Heinlein
18	50	1937	The White Stag	NOVEL	Kate Seredy
19	50	1935	It Can't Happen Here	NOVEL	Sinclair Lewis
20	50	1929	Hitty, Her First Hundred Years	NOVEL	Rachel Field
21	50	1922	The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle	NOVEL	Hugh Lofting
22	50	1921	Мы^?My	NOVEL	Евгений Замятин^?Yevgeny Zamyatin
23	50	1900	Makt Myrkranna	NOVEL	Valdimar Ásmundsson and Bram Stoker
24	50	1865	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	NOVEL	Lewis Carroll
25	47	1895	The Time Machine	NOVEL	H. G. Wells
26	40	1930	Last and First Men	NOVEL	Olaf Stapledon
27	36	1948	The World of Null-A	NOVEL	A. E. van Vogt
28	36	1944	Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord	NOVEL	Olaf Stapledon
29	36	1943	Fog Magic	NOVEL	Julia L. Sauer
30	36	1818	Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus	NOVEL	Mary Shelley
31	35	1946	A Vörös Oroszlán	NOVEL	Szepes Mária
32	35	1944	The Hundred Dresses	NOVEL	Eleanor Estes
33	35	1940	Darkness at Noon	NOVEL	Arthur Koestler
34	35	1938	Out of the Silent Planet	NOVEL	C. S. Lewis
35	35	1937	Swastika Night	NOVEL	Katharine Burdekin
36	35	1936	We the Living	NOVEL	Ayn Rand
37	35	1930	Floating Island	NOVEL	Anne Parrish
38	35	1930	孤島の鬼^?Kotō no oni	NOVEL	江戸川乱歩^?Edogawa Rampo
39	35	1930	The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess	NOVEL	Alida Sims Malkus
40	35	1924	Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story	NOVEL	Anne Carroll Moore
41	35	1924	The Dream Coach	NOVEL	Anne Parrish and Dillwyn Parrish
42	35	1921	The Old Tobacco Shop	NOVEL	William Bowen
43	35	1921	The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles	NOVEL	Padraic Colum
44	35	1897	The Water of the Wondrous Isles	NOVEL	William Morris
45	35	1896	The Well at the World's End	NOVEL	William Morris
46	30	1947	The Weapon Makers	NOVEL	A. E. van Vogt
47	30	1945	Destiny Times Three	NOVEL	Fritz Leiber
48	30	1942	Darkness and the Light	NOVEL	Olaf Stapledon
49	30	1940	The Ill-Made Knight	NOVEL	T. H. White
50	30	1900	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	NOVEL	L. Frank Baum
51	30	1897	Dracula	NOVEL	Bram Stoker
52	29	1944	The Golden Fleece	NOVEL	Robert Graves
53	29	1943	Perelandra	NOVEL	C. S. Lewis
54	29	1942	Donovan's Brain	NOVEL	Curt Siodmak
55	29	1940	Kallocain	NOVEL	Karin Boye
56	28	1945	Red Sun of Danger	NOVEL	Edmond Hamilton
57	28	1944	Land of Terror	NOVEL	Edgar Rice Burroughs
58	28	1942	The Uninvited	NOVEL	Dorothy Macardle
59	28	1939	Carson of Venus	NOVEL	Edgar Rice Burroughs
60	27	1943	Das Glasperlenspiel	NOVEL	Hermann Hesse
61	27	1942	Islandia	NOVEL	Austin Tappan Wright
62	26	1896	The Island of Dr. Moreau	NOVEL	H. G. Wells
63	23	1911	Peter Pan	NOVEL	J. M. Barrie
64	22	1666	The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World	NOVEL	Margaret Cavendish
65	21	1941	The Incomplete Enchanter	NOVEL	L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
66	16	1922	The Worm Ouroboros	NOVEL	E. R. Eddison
67	16	1898	The War of the Worlds	NOVEL	H. G. Wells
68	12	1949	Silverlock	NOVEL	John Myers Myers
69	4	1937	Star Maker	NOVEL	Olaf Stapledon
70	2	1942	The Screwtape Letters	NOVEL	C. S. Lewis
71	2	1940	Synthetic Men of Mars	NOVEL	Edgar Rice Burroughs
72	1	1949	The Humanoids	NOVEL	Jack Williamson
73	1	1948	Final Blackout	NOVEL	L. Ron Hubbard
74	1	1947	The Book of Ptath	NOVEL	A. E. van Vogt
75	1	1946	Titus Groan	NOVEL	Mervyn Peake
76	1	1944	Le voyageur imprudent	NOVEL	René Barjavel^?Rene Barjavel
77	1	1944	Time Must Have a Stop	NOVEL	Aldous Huxley
78	1	1944	Magic Moon	NOVEL	Edmond Hamilton
79	1	1944	The Delicate Ape	NOVEL	Dorothy B. Hughes
80	1	1944	The Golden Amazon	NOVEL	John Russell Fearn
81	1	1944	Murder in Space	NOVEL	David V. Reed
82	1	1944	Worlds Beginning	NOVEL	Robert Ardrey
83	1	1944	Miss Shumway Waves a Wand	NOVEL	James Hadley Chase
84	1	1943	The Robot Master	NOVEL	Walter B. Gibson
85	1	1943	The Fountainhead	NOVEL	Ayn Rand
86	1	1943	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	NOVEL	H. P. Lovecraft
87	1	1943	Mary Poppins Opens the Door	NOVEL	P. L. Travers
88	1	1943	The Magic Faraway Tree	NOVEL	Enid Blyton
89	1	1943	Ravage	NOVEL	René Barjavel^?Rene Barjavel
90	1	1943	Malpertuis	NOVEL	Jean Ray
91	1	1942	Superman	NOVEL	George Lowther
92	1	1942	The Land of Unreason	NOVEL	L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
93	1	1942	Grand Canyon	NOVEL	Vita Sackville-West
94	1	1942	Rocket to the Morgue	NOVEL	Anthony Boucher
95	1	1940	Typewriter in the Sky	NOVEL	L. Ron Hubbard
96	1	1940	The Twenty-Fifth Hour	NOVEL	Herbert Best
97	1	1940	The Man Who Went Back	NOVEL	Warwick Deeping
98	1	1940	La invención de Morel	NOVEL	Adolfo Bioy Casares
99	1	1940	Twice in Time	NOVEL	Manly Wade Wellman
100	1	1940	The Wonder City of Oz	NOVEL	John R. Neill
101	1	1940	A Million Years to Conquer	NOVEL	Henry Kuttner
102	1	1939	Tarzan the Magnificent	NOVEL	Edgar Rice Burroughs
103	1	1939	The Drums of Fu Manchu	NOVEL	Sax Rohmer
104	1	1938	Tarzan and the Forbidden City	NOVEL	Edgar Rice Burroughs
105	1	1938	The Doomsday Men	NOVEL	J. B. Priestley
106	1	1938	The Silver Princess in Oz	NOVEL	Ruth Plumly Thompson
107	1	1938	At Midnight on the 31st of March	NOVEL	Josephine Young Case
108	1	1938	Towers in the Mist	NOVEL	Elizabeth Goudge
109	1	1935	Land Under England	NOVEL	Joseph O'Neill
110	1	1935	Kajtuś czarodziej^?Kajtus czarodziej	NOVEL	Janusz Korczak
111	1	1932	Brave New World	NOVEL	Aldous Huxley
112	1	1931	Arundel	NOVEL	Kenneth Lewis Roberts
113	1	1926	Metropolis	NOVEL	Thea von Harbou
114	1	1907	The Iron Heel	NOVEL	Jack London
115	1	1907	What Might Have Been: The Story of a Social War	NOVEL	Ernest Bramah
116	1	1889	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	NOVEL	Mark Twain
117	1	1761	Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse	NOVEL	Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Highest Ranked Novels Prior to 1950

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