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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  1. 1.
    Party Going
    by Henry Green
  2. 2.
    After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
    by Aldous Huxley
  3. 3.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce
  4. 4.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien
  5. 5.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene
  6. 6.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  7. 7.
    ?
    Strangers and Brothers
    by C. P. Snow
  8. 8.
    The Aerodrome: A Love Story
    by Rex Warner
  9. 9.
    The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Joyce Cary
  10. 10.
    The Razor's Edge
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  11. 11.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh
  12. 12.
    ?
    Titus Groan
    by Mervyn Laurence Peake
  13. 13.
    The Victim (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Saul Bellow
  14. 14.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry
  15. 15.
    The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene
  16. 16.
    Ape and Essence
    by Aldous Huxley
  17. 17.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer
  18. 18.
    No Highway
    by Nevil Shute
  19. 19.
    The Heat of the Day
    by Elizabeth Bowen
  20. 20.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell
  21. 21.
    The Body
    by William Sansom
  22. 22.
    ?
    Scenes from Provincial Life
    by William Cooper
  23. 23.
    ?
    The Disenchanted
    by Budd Schulberg
  24. 24.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
    by Anthony Powell
  25. 25.
    The Catcher in the Rye

  26. 26.
    Dark Lantern (Pocket Classics)
    by David Fine
  27. 27.
    The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
    by Herman Wouk
  28. 28.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison
  29. 29.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Alexander Adams
  30. 30.
    The Groves of Academe
    by Mary McCarthy
  31. 31.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor
  33. 33.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler
  34. 34.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis
  35. 35.
    ?
    Room at the Top
    by John Braine
  36. 36.
    The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set
    by Lawrence Durrell
  37. 37.
    The London Novels
    by Colin MacInnes
  38. 38.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud
  39. 39.
    The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch
  40. 40.
  41. 41.
    The Once and Future King
    by Terence Hanbury White
  42. 42.
    ?
    The Mansion
    by William Faulkner
  43. 43.
    Goldfinger (James Bond Novels)
    by Ian Fleming
  44. 44.
    ?
    Facial Justice (Twentieth Century Classics)
    by L.P. Hartley
  45. 45.
    The Balkan Trilogy
    by Olivia Manning
  46. 46.
    Mighty and Their Fall
    by Ivy Compton-Burnett
  47. 47.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller
  48. 48.
    The Fox in the Attic (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes
  49. 49.
    Riders in the Chariot (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Patrick White
  50. 50.
    The Old Men at the Zoo
    by Angus Wilson

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ggchickapee

1939 - 1984 — 5 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.

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