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
  2. 2.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  3. 3.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth
  4. 4.
    ?
    AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
    by Theodore Dreiser
  5. 5.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  6. 6.
    ?
    APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
    by John O'Hara
  7. 7.
    Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
    by Judy Blume
  8. 8.
    ?
    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud
  9. 9.
    Swim-Two-Birds
    by Flann O'Brien
  10. 10.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan
  11. 11.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  12. 12.
    ?
    The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris
    by Christopher Isherwood
  13. 13.
    The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
    by Raymond Chandler
  14. 14.
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood
  15. 15.
    Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
    by Cormac McCarthy
  16. 16.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh
  17. 17.
    The Bridge of San Luis Ray
    by Thornton Wilder
  18. 18.
    Call It Sleep
    by Henry Roth
  19. 19.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  20. 20.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  21. 21.
    A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
    by Anthony Burgess
  22. 22.
    Confessions of Nat Turner
    by William Styron
  23. 23.
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen
  24. 24.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon
  25. 25.
    A Dance to the Music of Time
    by Anthony Powell
  26. 26.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West
  27. 27.
    Death Comes For The Archbishop
    by Willa Cather
  28. 28.
    A Death In The Family
    by James Agee
  29. 29.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen
  30. 30.
    Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
    by James Dickey
  31. 31.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone
  32. 32.
    ?
    Falconer - John Cheever

  33. 33.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles
  34. 34.
    The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition
    by Doris Lessing
  35. 35.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin
  37. 37.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  38. 38.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon
  39. 39.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  40. 40.
    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh
  41. 41.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  42. 42.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers
  43. 43.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene
  44. 44.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson
  45. 45.
    ?
    A House for Mister Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul
  46. 46.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves
  47. 47.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  48. 48.
    Light in August (The Corrected Text)
    by William Faulkner
  49. 49.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

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Comments

amandadavison

Inaccuracies — 3 years 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?

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