TIME — 100 Best Novels
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94
Authors
9,028
Pages
1924–2005
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Atonement
Ian McEwan
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Possession
A. S. Byatt
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
Watchmen
Alan Moore
Dave Gibbons
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Money
Martin Amis, Yuval Noah Harari
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Falconer
John Cheever
Ragtime
E. L. Doctorow
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Deliverance
James Dickey
Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Crying of Lot 49
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
Herzog
Saul Bellow
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
A Death In The Family
James Agee
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
Lolita
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
The Adventures of Augie March
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
Anthony Powell
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
1984
George Orwell
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood
Animal Farm
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Loving
Henry Green, Christopher Brown
Native Son
Richard Wright
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
The Power and the Glory
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
A Handful of Dust
Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Light in August
William Faulkner
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
The Sound and the Fury
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Mrs Dalloway
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald