Since Professor Boxall is keen to start an argument, let me oblige.
Drop the bloated, self-indulgent "Ada" from an otherwise correct
Nabokov list ("Lolita," "Pale Fire," "Pnin") and insert "Laughter in
the Dark" or "The Gift."
J. M. Coetzee,
with 10 novels, can afford to lose 1 or 2. That would open up space for
"The Cossacks" by Tolstoy and "A Hero of Our Time" by Mikhail
Lermontov. There should be another five Balzacs. I could go on and on.