The greatest novelist in the world is difficult to determine because the standards of a novelist's achievements vary from person to person. Different readers may resonate with different novelists and think that their works are the greatest. The works of novelists were usually influenced by many factors such as the reader's cultural level, personal preferences, historical background, and so on. Therefore, it was impossible to determine which novelist was the greatest novelist in the world. Some of the works that are considered the greatest novelists include Dream of the Red Chamber, War and Peace, the Harry Potter series, The Catcher in the Rye, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and so on.