Time 100

ALL-TIME 100 BEST NOVELS SINCE 1923

• 1984 | George Orwell
• 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 | JD 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
• The Moviegoer | Walker Percy
• Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis
• The Man Who Loved Children | Christina Stead
• Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie
• Money | Martin Amis
• Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf
• Naked Lunch | William Burroughs
• Native Son | Richard Wright
• Neuromancer | William Gibson
• Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro
• 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 For
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | John LeCarre
• 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 | Malcom Lowry
• Watchmen | Alan Moore
• White Noise | Don DeLillo*
• White Teeth | Zadie Smith
• Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys 4/5