{"id":3541,"date":"2005-10-18T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/18\/times-top-100-novels-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:50:16","slug":"times-top-100-novels-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/18\/times-top-100-novels-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time&#8217;s Top 100 Novels of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7541,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.time.com\\\/time\\\/2005\\\/100books\\\/the_complete_list.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100313052053\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.time.com:80\\\/time\\\/2005\\\/100books\\\/the_complete_list.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 21:57:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 09:25:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 09:25:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7542,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.republicoft.com\\\/index.php\\\/archives\\\/2005\\\/10\\\/17\\\/time-for-another-book-meme&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Time Magazine&#8217;s list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/the_complete_list.html\" title=\"Time: All-TIME 100 Novels\">top 100 novels of all time<\/a> (in alphabetical order, not ranked, English-language, 1923-present). As always, items in <strong>bold<\/strong> are the ones I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow<\/li>\n<li>All the King&#8217;s Men, Robert Penn Warren<\/li>\n<li>American Pastoral, Philip Roth<\/li>\n<li>An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animal Farm, George Orwell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Appointment in Samarra, John O&#8217;Hara<\/li>\n<li>Are You There God? It&#8217;s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume<\/li>\n<li>The Assistant, Bernard Malamud<\/li>\n<li>At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<li>Atonement, Ian McEwan<\/li>\n<li>Beloved, Toni Morrison<\/li>\n<li>The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood<\/li>\n<li>The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler<\/li>\n<li>The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li>Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy<\/li>\n<li>Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh<\/li>\n<li>The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder<\/li>\n<li>Call It Sleep, Henry Roth<\/li>\n<li><strong>Catch-22, Joseph Heller<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron<\/li>\n<li>The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen<\/li>\n<li>The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon<\/li>\n<li>A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell<\/li>\n<li>The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West<\/li>\n<li>Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather<\/li>\n<li>A Death in the Family, James Agee<\/li>\n<li>The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen<\/li>\n<li>Deliverance, James Dickey<\/li>\n<li>Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone<\/li>\n<li>Falconer, John Cheever<\/li>\n<li>The French Lieutenant&#8217;s Woman, John Fowles<\/li>\n<li>The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing<\/li>\n<li>Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon<\/li>\n<li>The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/li>\n<li>A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh<\/li>\n<li>The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers<\/li>\n<li>The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene<\/li>\n<li>Herzog, Saul Bellow<\/li>\n<li>Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson<\/li>\n<li>A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul<\/li>\n<li>I, Claudius, Robert Graves<\/li>\n<li>Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace<\/li>\n<li>Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison<\/li>\n<li>Light in August, William Faulkner<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lord of the Flies, William Golding<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Loving, Henry Green<\/li>\n<li>Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis<\/li>\n<li>The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead<\/li>\n<li>Midnight&#8217;s Children, Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n<li>Money, Martin Amis<\/li>\n<li>The Moviegoer, Walker Percy<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf<\/li>\n<li><strong>Naked Lunch, William Burroughs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Native Son, Richard Wright<\/li>\n<li>Neuromancer, William Gibson<\/li>\n<li>Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984, George Orwell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On the Road, Jack Kerouac<\/li>\n<li>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest, Ken Kesey<\/li>\n<li>The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski<\/li>\n<li>Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n<li>A Passage to India, E.M. Forster<\/li>\n<li>Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion<\/li>\n<li>Portnoy&#8217;s Complaint, Philip Roth<\/li>\n<li>Possession, A.S. Byatt<\/li>\n<li>The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene<\/li>\n<li>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark<\/li>\n<li>Rabbit, Run, John Updike<\/li>\n<li>Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow<\/li>\n<li>The Recognitions, William Gaddis<\/li>\n<li>Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett<\/li>\n<li>Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates<\/li>\n<li>The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth<\/li>\n<li>The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner<\/li>\n<li>The Sportswriter, Richard Ford<\/li>\n<li>The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John le Carre<\/li>\n<li>The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n<li>Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston<\/li>\n<li>Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe<\/li>\n<li><strong>To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf<\/li>\n<li>Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller<\/li>\n<li>Ubik, Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li>Under the Net, Iris Murdoch<\/li>\n<li>Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watchmen, Alan Moore &amp; Dave Gibbons<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>White Noise, Don DeLillo<\/li>\n<li>White Teeth, Zadie Smith<\/li>\n<li>Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicoft.com\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/10\/17\/time-for-another-book-meme\/\" title=\"The Republic of T: Time for another book meme\">Terrance<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine&#8217;s list of the top 100 novels of all time (in alphabetical order, not ranked, English-language, 1923-present). 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