Time's 100 Greatest English-Language Novels

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Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-Language novels from 1923 to the present.

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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.
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    AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  5. 5.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  6. 6.
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    APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
    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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    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud

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  9. 9.
    Swim-Two-Birds
    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. 12.
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    The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris
    by Christopher Isherwood

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  13. 13.
    The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
    by Raymond Chandler

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  14. 14.
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

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  15. 15.
    Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
    by Cormac McCarthy

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  16. 16.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  17. 17.
    The Bridge of San Luis Ray
    by Thornton Wilder

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  18. 18.
    Call It Sleep
    by Henry Roth

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  19. 19.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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

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  21. 21.
    A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  22. 22.
    Confessions of Nat Turner
    by William Styron

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  23. 23.
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  24. 24.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  25. 25.
    A Dance to the Music of Time
    by Anthony Powell

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

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  27. 27.
    Death Comes For The Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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  28. 28.
    A Death In The Family
    by James Agee

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

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  30. 30.
    Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
    by James Dickey

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  31. 31.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

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    Falconer - John Cheever

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

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  34. 35.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  35. 36.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Herb Bridges

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  36. 37.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  37. 38.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  38. 39.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  39. 40.
    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  40. 41.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  41. 42.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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  42. 43.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

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  43. 44.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  44. 45.
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    A House for Mister Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  45. 46.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

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  46. 47.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  47. 48.
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

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  48. 49.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

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Comments

Inaccuracies — 33 weeks ago

This list is wrong. I am familiar with Time Magazine’s 100 Best Books Ever Written in English, and you have errors in it. Even the title is incorrect.

First of all, “When Things Fall Apart” should be changed to “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe. Secondly, in “Thier Eyes Were Watching God”, you spelled “Their” incorrectly.

I am going to create my own Time List, unless you change it. Also, what’s with the lack of pictures?