Time Magazine’s All-Time best 100 English language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
2. 1984
by George Orwell
3. The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
5. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by C.S. Lewis
7. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
8. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
9. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
10. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
11. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
12. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
13. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Ken Kesey
15. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
16. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
17. Atonement
by Ian McEwan
18. Watchmen
by Alan Moore
19. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
20. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by Chinua Achebe
21. The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
22. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
23. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
24. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
25. On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
26. The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
27. Possession
by A.S. Byatt
28. A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster
29. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by Robert Graves
30. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
31. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
32. All the King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren
33. Native Son
by Richard Wright
34. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
by John Fowles
35. Ragtime
by E.L. Doctorow
36. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
by John le Carré
37. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
38. Light in August
by William Faulkner
39. The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
40. Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
41. Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
42. To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
43. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
44. White Noise
by Don DeLillo
45. Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
46. Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
47. Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
48. Midnight’s Children
by Salman Rushdie
49. Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
50. Portnoy’s Complaint
by Philip Roth
51. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
52. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by William Gibson
53. American Pastoral (The American Trilogy #1)
by Philip Roth
54. The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
55. The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
56. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
57. Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
58. The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
59. Gravity’s Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
60. Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
61. Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
62. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
by John Updike
63. White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
64. The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosiński
65. Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
66. A House for Mr Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul
67. Play It as It Lays
by Joan Didion
68. Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
69. Ubik
by Philip K. Dick
70. The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
71. The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
72. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
73. The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
74. The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
75. Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
76. The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
77. Appointment in Samarra
by John O’Hara
78. Money
by Martin Amis
79. Deliverance
by James Dickey
80. The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
81. Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
82. The Man Who Loved Children
by Christina Stead
83. The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth
84. The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
85. Herzog
by Saul Bellow
86. The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
87. Call it Sleep
by Henry Roth
88. A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
89. The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford
90. The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher Isherwood
91. At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O’Brien
92. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
93. Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone
94. The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
95. Loving
by Henry Green
96. Under the Net
by Iris Murdoch
97. A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
by Anthony Powell
98. An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
99. Falconer
by John Cheever
100. The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
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