Anthony Burgess's "99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939"

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From the Anthony Burgess book of the same name.

In several cases, Burgess cheats by recommending a series. When the series is not available in a single book, I have listed the first book in the series, for instance "Dark Lantern" for "The Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight".

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    Party Going (Viking Reprint Editions)
    by Henry Green

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  2. 2.
    After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
    by Aldous Huxley

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    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by James Joyce

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    At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

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    The Power and the Glory (The Viking critical library)
    by Graham Greene

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    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Strangers and Brothers
    by C. P. Snow

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  8. 8.
    The Aerodrome: A Love Story
    by Rex Warner

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    The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Joyce Cary

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  10. 10.
    The Razor's Edge
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  11. 11.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    Titus Groan
    by Mervyn Laurence Peake

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  13. 13.
    The Victim (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  14. 14.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  15. 16.
    Ape and Essence
    by Aldous Huxley

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  16. 17.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

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  17. 18.
    No Highway
    by Nevil Shute

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    The Heat of the Day
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  19. 20.
    1984: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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    The body
    by William Sansom

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    Scenes from Provincial Life
    by William Cooper

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    The Disenchanted
    by Budd Schulberg

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    The Catcher in the Rye

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  24. 26.
    Dark Lantern (Pocket Classics S.)
    by David Fine

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  25. 27.
    The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
    by Herman Wouk

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  26. 28.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  27. 29.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Alexander Adams

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  28. 30.
    The Groves of Academe
    by Mary McCarthy

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  29. 31.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  30. 32.
    The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  31. 33.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler

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    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

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    Room at the Top
    by John Braine

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    The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet)
    by Lawrence Durrell

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    The London Novels
    by Colin MacInnes

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    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

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    The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

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    Once and Future King
    by T. H. White

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    The Mansion
    by William Faulkner

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    Goldfinger (James Bond Novels)
    by Ian Fleming

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    Facial Justice (Twentieth Century Classics S.)
    by L.P. Hartley

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    The Balkan Trilogy
    by Olivia Manning

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    Mighty and Their Fall
    by I. Compton-Burnett

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  45. 47.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  46. 48.
    The Fox in the Attic (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes

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  47. 49.
    Riders in the Chariot (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Patrick White

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  48. 50.
    The Old Men at the Zoo
    by Angus Wilson

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Comments

ggchickapee
Portland

1939 - 1984 — 3 years ago

Great list! It makes me want to read Anthony Burgess’s book to enjoy his short reviews of the 99 novels that made his list.

If it matters to people, Burgess’s book was published in 1984, so the list is his 99 favorite books from the beginning of WWII up to 1984.