Greatest novels

We asked 10 models: The greatest novels ever written, any language. Each named its own top 10.

Agreement between models

62%

Same model, run twice

75%

Different picks

17

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#	Pick	Score	Listed by	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
1	Don Quixote		10/10	1	1	2	1	1	4	3	1	1	1
2	War and Peace		10/10	2	2	4	2	3	3	1	2	2	2
3	In Search of Lost Time		10/10	3	3	1	3	8	1	6	7	5	4
4	The Brothers Karamazov		10/10	7	4	6	5	5	5	2	5	8	3
5	Ulysses		8/10	4		3	4		6	5	9	4	5
6	Anna Karenina		9/10	6	9	5	8	6	2	4	3	9
7	One Hundred Years of Solitude		9/10	9	6	8		7	7	7	8	3	7
8	Moby-Dick		8/10		7	7	7	2	9	8		6	6
9	Madame Bovary		7/10	8	10		9	4			4	7	10
10	Middlemarch		6/10	5	5	9	6	10		9
11	Crime and Punishment		5/10	10				9	8	10	6
12	Hamlet		1/10										8
13	The Tale of Genji		1/10		8
14	Dream of the Red Chamber		3/10			10	10		10
15	The Divine Comedy		1/10										9

2 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

1. Don Quixote
2. War and Peace
3. In Search of Lost Time
4. Ulysses
5. Middlemarch
6. Anna Karenina
7. The Brothers Karamazov
8. Madame Bovary
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude
10. Crime and Punishment

89% with consensus · 67% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

1. Don Quixote
2. War and Peace
3. In Search of Lost Time
4. The Brothers Karamazov
5. Middlemarch
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude
7. Moby-Dick
8. The Tale of Genji
9. Anna Karenina
10. Madame Bovary

89% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

1. In Search of Lost Time
2. Don Quixote
3. Ulysses
4. War and Peace
5. Anna Karenina
6. The Brothers Karamazov
7. Moby-Dick
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude
9. Middlemarch
10. Dream of the Red Chamber

66% with consensus · 63% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

1. Don Quixote
2. War and Peace
3. In Search of Lost Time
4. Ulysses
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. Middlemarch
7. Moby-Dick
8. Anna Karenina
9. Madame Bovary
10. Dream of the Red Chamber

91% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1. Don Quixote
2. Moby-Dick
3. War and Peace
4. Madame Bovary
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. Anna Karenina
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude
8. In Search of Lost Time
9. Crime and Punishment
10. Middlemarch

72% with consensus · 81% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

1. In Search of Lost Time
2. Anna Karenina
3. War and Peace
4. Don Quixote
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. Ulysses
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude
8. Crime and Punishment
9. Moby-Dick
10. Dream of the Red Chamber

59% with consensus · 64% self-consistent

Kimi K3

1. War and Peace
2. The Brothers Karamazov
3. Don Quixote
4. Anna Karenina
5. Ulysses
6. In Search of Lost Time
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude
8. Moby-Dick
9. Middlemarch
10. Crime and Punishment

68% with consensus · 60% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

1. Don Quixote
2. War and Peace
3. Anna Karenina
4. Madame Bovary
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. Crime and Punishment
7. In Search of Lost Time
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude
9. Ulysses
10. Pride and Prejudice

77% with consensus · 90% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

1. Don Quixote
2. War and Peace
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude
4. Ulysses
5. In Search of Lost Time
6. Moby-Dick
7. Madame Bovary
8. The Brothers Karamazov
9. Anna Karenina
10. Beloved

81% with consensus · 82% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

1. Don Quixote
2. War and Peace
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. In Search of Lost Time
5. Ulysses
6. Moby-Dick
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude
8. Hamlet
9. The Divine Comedy
10. Madame Bovary

90% with consensus · 65% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 44 (lightest) to 93 (darkest)

	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5		84	65	93	65	53	58	74	81	79
GPT-6 Luna	84		58	88	69	51	58	72	76	84
Gemini 4 Argon	65	58		67	49	77	53	49	56	58
Qwen 3.8 Flash	93	88	67		67	54	59	72	82	85
DeepSeek V4 Pro	65	69	49	67		44	49	77	68	68
GLM-5.3	53	51	77	54	44		56	54	44	50
Kimi K3	58	58	53	59	49	56		59	56	66
MiniMax M3	74	72	49	72	77	54	59		71	72
Mistral Large 4	81	76	56	82	68	44	56	71		82
Nemotron 3 Ultra	79	84	58	85	68	50	66	72	82