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Time Magazine's All-Time Best Novels (100)

List of Time Magazine’s top English-language novels from 1923 to the present:
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.
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 All the king's men,: A play
by Robert Penn Warren
  
3. American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
  
4. An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
  
5.
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 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.
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 At Swim-two-birds
by Flann O'Brien
  
10.
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 Atonement – Ian McEwan  
11.
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 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; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window (Everyman's Library)
by Raymond Chandler
  
14.
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 The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
  
15. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library)
by Cormac Mccarthy
  
16. Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
  
17. Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
  
18. Call It Sleep: A Novel
by Henry Roth
  
19.
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 Catch-22 (1961)
by Joseph Heller
  
20. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
21.
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 A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
22. Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
  
23. The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
  
24. The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
25.
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 A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
by Anthony Powell
  
26. The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
  
27. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
by Willa Cather
  
28. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
29. The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
  
30. Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
by James Dickey
  
31. Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone
  
32.
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 Falconer - John Cheever
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33.
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 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 (Penguin Modern Classics)
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 Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
39. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
40. A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Evelyn Waugh
  
41. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
by Carson McCullers
  
42.
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 The Heart of the Matter
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.
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 I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
  
47. Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
  
48. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
49. Light in August
by William Faulkner
  
50. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Color Gift Edition (Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
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