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

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.
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 Party Going (Viking Reprint Editions)
by Henry Green
  
2. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
by Aldous Huxley
  
3. Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by James Joyce
  
4. At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien
  
5.
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 The Power and the Glory (The Viking critical library)
by Graham Greene
  
6. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
7.
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 Strangers and Brothers
by C. P. Snow
  
8. The Aerodrome: A Love Story
by Rex Warner
  
9. The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
by Joyce Cary
  
10. The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
11. Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
  
12.
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 Titus Groan
by Mervyn Laurence Peake
  
13. The Victim (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
14. Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Malcolm Lowry
  
15. The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Graham Greene
  
16. Ape and Essence
by Aldous Huxley
  
17. The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
by Norman Mailer
  
18. No Highway
by Nevil Shute
  
19. The Heat of the Day
by Elizabeth Bowen
  
20. 1984: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
21.
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 The body
by William Sansom
  
22.
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 Scenes from Provincial Life
by William Cooper
  
23.
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 The Disenchanted
by Budd Schulberg
  
24. A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (Dance to the Music of Time)
by Anthony Powell
  
25. The Catcher in the Rye  
26. Dark Lantern (Pocket Classics S.)
by David Fine
  
27. The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
by Herman Wouk
  
28. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
29. The Old Man and the Sea
by Alexander Adams
  
30. The Groves of Academe
by Mary McCarthy
  
31. Wise Blood: A Novel
by Flannery O'Connor
  
32. The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library)
by Evelyn Waugh
  
33. The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
  
34. Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
  
35.
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 Room at the Top
by John Braine
  
36. The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet)
by Lawrence Durrell
  
37. The London Novels
by Colin MacInnes
  
38. The Assistant: A Novel
by Bernard Malamud
  
39. The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Iris Murdoch
  
40. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Plume Contemporary Fiction)
by Alan Sillitoe
  
41. Once and Future King
by T. H. White
  
42.
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 The Mansion
by William Faulkner
  
43. Goldfinger (James Bond Novels)
by Ian Fleming
  
44.
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 Facial Justice (Twentieth Century Classics S.)
by L.P. Hartley
  
45.
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 The Balkan Trilogy
by Olivia Manning
  
46.
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 Mighty and Their Fall
by I. Compton-Burnett
  
47. Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
  
48. The Fox in the Attic (New York Review Books Classics)
by Richard Hughes
  
49. Riders in the Chariot (New York Review Books Classics)
by Patrick White
  
50. The Old Men at the Zoo
by Angus Wilson
  
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