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. 51.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  2. 52.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  3. 54.
    Lucky Jim
    by Kingsley Amis

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  4. 55.
    Loving (A novel by Henry Green)
    by Henry Green

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  5. 56.
    The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel
    by Christina Stead

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  6. 57.
    Naked Lunch
    by William S. Burroughs

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  7. 58.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  8. 59.
    Money
    by Martin Amis

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  9. 60.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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  10. 61.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  11. 62.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  12. 63.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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  13. 64.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  14. 65.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  15. 66.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  16. 67.
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  17. 68.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy N. Kosinski

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  18. 69.
    Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  19. 70.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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  20. 71.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

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  21. 72.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  22. 73.
    Possession
    by Antonia S. Byatt

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  23. 74.
    The Power and the Glory
    by Graham Greene

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  24. 75.
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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    by Muriel Sparks

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  25. 76.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  26. 77.
    Ragtime
    by E.L. DOCTOROW

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  27. 78.
    The Recognitions
    by William Gaddis

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  28. 79.
    Red Harvest (Crime Masterworks)
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  29. 80.
    Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction)
    by Richard Yates

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  30. 81.
    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles

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  31. 82.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  32. 83.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson

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  33. 84.
    The Sot-weed Factor
    by John Barth

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  34. 85.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  35. 86.
    The Sportswriter
    by Richard Ford

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  36. 87.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

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  37. 88.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  38. 89.
    Thier Eyes Were Watching God - A Novel 2004
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  39. 90.
    When Things Fall Apart
    by Pema Chodron

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  40. 91.
    To Kill a Mocking Bird
    by Harper Lee

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  41. 92.
    To the Lighthouse (1927)
    by Virginia, Woolf

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  42. 93.
    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller

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  43. 94.
    Ubik
    by Philip K. Dick

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  44. 95.
    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch

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  45. 96.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  46. 97.
    Watchmen (Absolute Edition)
    by Alan Moore

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  47. 99.
    White Teeth
    by Zadie Smith

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  48. 100.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

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