Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Time Magazine's "All Time 100 Best Novels 1923 to the Present"

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html

All Time 100 Best Novels 1923 to the Present

 

A - B

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

 

C - D

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

 

F - G

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

 

H - I

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

 

L - N

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

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O - R

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

 

S - T

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

 

U - W

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

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

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