Time Magazine’s 100 Best English Language Novels since 1923

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Total: 23/100

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

[source: Time]