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

Time Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present (2005).
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(found at: http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html)

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1. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
2. All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
  
3. American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
  
4. An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Theodore Dreiser
  
5. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
6. Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
by John O'Hara
  
7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
  
8. The Assistant: A Novel
by Bernard Malamud
  
9. At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien
  
10. Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
  
11. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
12. The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)
by Christopher Isherwood
  
13. The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
  
14. The Blind Assassin: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
15. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International)
by Cormac Mccarthy
  
16. Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
  
17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
by Thornton Wilder
  
18. Call It Sleep: A Novel
by Henry Roth
  
19. Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
  
20. The Catcher in the Rye  
21. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
22. The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
  
23. The Corrections: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
  
24. The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
  
25. A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (Dance to the Music of Time)
by Anthony Powell
  
26. The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
  
27. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Willa Cather
  
28. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
29. The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
  
30. Deliverance
by James Dickey
  
31. Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone
  
32. Falconer
by John Cheever
  
33. The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
  
34. The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)
by Doris Lessing
  
35. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
  
36. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
37. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
38. Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
39. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
40. A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
  
41. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
by Carson McCullers
  
42. The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Graham Greene
  
43. Herzog (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
44. Housekeeping: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
  
45. A House for Mr. Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul
  
46. I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International)
by Robert Graves
  
47. Infinite Jest : A Novel
by David Foster Wallace
  
48. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
49. Light in August
by William Faulkner
  
50. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition)
by C. S. Lewis
  
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Created by Juliana on Mar 25, 2006.