100 Books
The 100 best english language novels from 1923 to present, picked by Time Magazine's Critics, Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo. (http://www.time.com/100books)
- The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
- All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
- American Pastoral - Philip Roth
- An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
- The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
- At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
- Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
- Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
- The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
- The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
- A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
- The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
- Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
- A Death in the Family - James Agee
- The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
- Deliverance - James Dickey
- Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone
- Falconer - John Cheever
- The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
- The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
- Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
- Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
- The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
- Herzog - Saul Bellow
- Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
- A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul
- I, Claudius - Robert Graves
- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Light in August - William Faulkner
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Loving - Henry Green
- Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
- The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- Money - Martin Amis
- The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
- Native Son - Richard Wright
- Neuromancer - William Gibson
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1984 - George Orwell
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
- The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
- Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
- Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
- Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
- Possession - A.S. Byatt
- The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
- Rabbit, Run - John Updike
- Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
- The Recognitions - William Gaddis
- Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
- Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
- The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
- The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- Ubik - Philip K. Dick
- Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
- Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
- Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- White Noise - Don DeLillo
- White Teeth - Zadie Smith
- Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
