Time’s Top 100 Novels of All Time

Time Magazine’s list of the top 100 novels of all time (in alphabetical order, not ranked, English-language, 1923-present). As always, items in bold are the ones I’ve read.

• 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

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