TIME 100 Best Novels

TIME Magazine's 100 best novels written in English since 1923.

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