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)

1. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
2. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
3. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
4. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
5. Animal Farm - George Orwell
6. Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
8. The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
9. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
10. Atonement - Ian McEwan
11. Beloved - Toni Morrison
12. The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood
13. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
14. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
15. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
16. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
18. Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
19. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
20. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
21. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
22. The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
23. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
24. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
25. A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
26. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
27. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
28. A Death in the Family - James Agee
29. The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
30. Deliverance - James Dickey
31. Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone
32. Falconer - John Cheever
33. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
34. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
35. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
36. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
37. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
38. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
39. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
41. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
42. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
43. Herzog - Saul Bellow
44. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
45. A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul
46. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
47. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
48. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
49. Light in August - William Faulkner
50. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
51. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
52. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
53. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
54. Loving - Henry Green
55. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
56. The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
57. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
58. Money - Martin Amis
59. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
60. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
61. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
62. Native Son - Richard Wright
63. Neuromancer - William Gibson
64. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
65. 1984 - George Orwell
66. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
68. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
69. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
70. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
71. Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
72. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
73. Possession - A.S. Byatt
74. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
75. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
76. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
77. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
78. The Recognitions - William Gaddis
79. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
80. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
81. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
82. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
83. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
84. The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
85. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
86. The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
87. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre
88. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
89. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
90. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
91. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
92. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
93. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
94. Ubik - Philip K. Dick
95. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
96. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
97. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
98. White Noise - Don DeLillo
99. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
100. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys