Time Magazine's 100 Best Novels

Add to my lists | Print this list

This is in Alphabetical order, not in order of importance.

Pages: 1

  1. 1.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  2. 2.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  3. 3.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

  4. 4.

  5. 5.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  6. 6.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

  7. 7.
    Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    by Judy Blume

  8. 8.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

  9. 9.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

  10. 10.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

  11. 11.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  12. 13.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  13. 14.
    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

  14. 15.

  15. 16.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  16. 17.
    The Bride of San Luis Rey
    by Thornton Wilder

  17. 18.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

  18. 19.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  19. 20.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  20. 21.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  21. 22.
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen

  22. 23.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

  23. 24.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
    by Anthony Powell

  24. 25.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

  25. 26.

  26. 27.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  27. 28.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

  28. 29.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

  29. 30.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

  30. 31.
    Falconer
    by John Cheever

  31. 32.

  32. 33.
    The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition
    by Doris Lessing

  33. 34.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  34. 35.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  35. 36.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  36. 37.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

  37. 38.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  38. 39.
    A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library)
    by Evelyn Waugh

  39. 40.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

  40. 41.
    The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

  41. 42.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  42. 43.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

  43. 44.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

  44. 46.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

  45. 47.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

  46. 48.
    Light in August (The Corrected Text)
    by William Faulkner

  47. 50.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

Pages: 1

This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists.
Created by soimobsessive on Sep 17, 2006.
 

Comments

Falconer — 3 years ago

Someone replaced Falconer by John Cheever (#32) with some other book that clearly didn’t belong. I reinstated it.




or
Login with Facebook