Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels (1923-present)

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Time Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present (2005).
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  1. 1.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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

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  3. 3.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

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  4. 4.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  5. 5.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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

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

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

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

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  10. 10.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

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  11. 11.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  12. 13.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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

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  14. 16.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  15. 17.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  16. 18.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  17. 19.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  18. 20.
    The Catcher in the Rye

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  19. 21.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  20. 22.
    The Confessions of Nat Turner
    by William Styron

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  21. 23.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  22. 24.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  23. 26.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

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  25. 28.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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  26. 29.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  27. 30.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

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  28. 31.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

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  29. 32.
    Falconer
    by John Cheever

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  30. 33.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

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  31. 35.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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  32. 36.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  33. 37.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  34. 38.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  35. 39.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  36. 40.
    A Handful of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  37. 41.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

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  38. 43.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  39. 44.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  40. 45.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  41. 47.
    Infinite Jest : A Novel
    by David Foster Wallace

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  42. 48.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  43. 49.
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

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Comments

miss kiki
St. Paul

Why? — 13 weeks ago

Looks like someone deleted a book from the list (there’s only 99 now).


Oprah's Book Club- Blah! — 1 year ago

Tamsinator, 100% agree. Seeing that ‘Oprah’s Book Club choice’ sticker on a book makes me want to look elsewhere.


miss kiki
St. Paul

Untitled — 1 year ago

Deleting The Handmaid’s Tale that was added recently. It’s a great book, but not on the list.

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html


Tamsinator
Spanish Fork

Is it just me... — 1 year ago

or does nothing turn you off a book more than the words “Oprah’s book club”?


Missing! — 1 year ago

The Adventures of Augie March should be here, yet there are already 100. So which of the ones here doesn’t belong?


Wow... — 1 year ago

...there are so many I haven’t even HEARD of… I’m going to be reading some of these for sure. THanks for sharing!


Juliet
Toronto

Found it! — 2 years ago

The missing one was The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler. :)