Go for "Great Expectations", "David Copperfield" and "Bleak House". If they are not great novels, I don't know what are.
"A Christmas Carol" will never be a great novel, but there is a reason it is beloved the world over for what it is.
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"A Christmas Carol" will never be a great novel, but there is a reason it is beloved the world over for what it is.