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Time's 100 Greatest English-Language Novels

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

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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.
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 AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
by Theodore Dreiser
  
5. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
6.
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 APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
by John O'Hara
  
7.
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 Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
  
8.
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 The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
  
9. Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
  
10. Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
  
11. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
12.
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 The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris
by Christopher Isherwood
  
13. The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
by Raymond Chandler
  
14. The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
  
15. Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
by Cormac McCarthy
  
16. Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
  
17. The Bridge of San Luis Ray
by Thornton Wilder
  
18. Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth
  
19. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
20. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
21. A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
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. A 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
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. 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 Herb Bridges
  
37. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
38. Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
  
39. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
40. A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Evelyn Waugh
  
41. Herzog (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
42. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
  
43. The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
  
44. Housekeeping: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
  
45.
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 A House for Mister Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul
  
46.
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 I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
  
47. The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
by H.G. Wells
  
48. Light in August
by William Faulkner
  
49. Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
  
50.
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 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)  
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