Time Magazine's "100 Best English-language Novels (1923-present)"

Some of these are not among the best, in my experience. For instance, missing is Harry Mulisch’s THE ASSAULT, brilliant. Another is NIGHT by Wiesel, brilliant. ONE HUNDRED DAYS OF SOLITUDE, probably the best book written in the last half-century: missing: ridiculous. And yet books like the one by Kingsley Amis, about a drunk who is supposed to be funny, is questionable. As is Steinbeck’s dated book instead of his better EAST OF EDEN, or Hemingway’s FAREWELL TO ARMS (missing), or Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy, or the brilliant book by Gunter Grass, or any one of a number of books by the wonderful Penelope Fitzgerald. What about Pym? Louis Auchincloss? James Cain? Molly Gloss’s THE JUMP-OFF CREEK? Kawabatta? Ivan Doig? Mishima? In their place? – many lesser works.