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Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels

100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present, according to Time Magazine.

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1. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
 
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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
 
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Roth, Philip-American Pastoral  
4.
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An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
 
5. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
 
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APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
by John O'Hara
 
7. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
by Judy Blume
 
8.
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The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
 
9.
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At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
 
10. Atonement (MTI)
by Ian Mcewan
 
11.
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
 
12. Berlin Stories (New Directions Paperbook)
by Christopher Isherwood
 
13. The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
 
14.
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
 
15.
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
 
16.
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
 
17. Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
 
18. Call It Sleep: A Novel
by Henry Roth
 
19. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
 
20. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
 
21. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
 
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Styron, William-The Confessions Of Nat Turner  
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Franzen, Jonathan-The Corrections  
24. The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
by Thomas Pynchon
 
25.
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A Dance to the Music of Time (Anthony Powell)  
26. The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
 
27. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
by Willa Cather
 
28.
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Agee, James-A Death In The Family  
29. The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
 
30. Deliverance
by James Dickey
 
31. Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone
 
32.
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Falconer - John Cheever
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33.
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The French Lieutenant´s Woman
by John Fowles
 
34.
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The Golden Notebook: A Novel
by Doris Lessing
 
35.
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Go Tell It On The Mountain
by James Baldwin
 
36. Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
 
37. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
 
38. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
 
39. The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
 
40.
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A Handful Of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
 
41. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
by Carson McCullers
 
42. The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
 
43. Herzog (Unabridged)
by Saul Bellow
 
44.
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Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
 
45. A House for Mr. Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul
 
46. I, Claudius: Classic Collection
by Robert Graves
 
47. Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
 
48.
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
 
49. Light in August
by William Faulkner
 
50. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
 
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Created by Emelle on Sep 16, 2008.