Lists of Bests: Time Magazine's "100 Best English-language Novels (1923-present)" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/1977 Time Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present (2005). Enjoy! Non-fiction: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/96561-time-magazine-s-all-time-100-best-non-fiction-books Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:59:59 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962230 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962230"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RH3GY1XAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686679 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686679"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VBNAiFPDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z-DuG4wVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41puFdb7pCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w-rPGvWcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Appointment in Samarra: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9226 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9226"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BNbntENCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John O'Hara</div> Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50510 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50510"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GZBH7FXXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judy Blume</div> The Assistant: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59045 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59045"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G9GxvaqmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Malamud</div> At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30319 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30319"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51oo8lRzCDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flann O'Brien</div> Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fS5vrBjZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51srBOCdgBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris/Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25091 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25091"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5116cNONYkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Isherwood</div> The Big Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416K0YQnmtL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> The Blind Assassin: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10548 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10548"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Og6Di3z8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18710 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18710"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-fUEeoCvL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac McCarthy</div> Brideshead Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61IrqrCMouL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/281070 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/281070"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060088877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> Call It Sleep: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/257686 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/257686"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512piZQWAIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Roth</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eW-wH1K-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51namOub2kL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tViXbqjLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> The Confessions of Nat Turner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18813 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18813"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516SCQXFBRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> The Corrections: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wr09D9LZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> The Crying of Lot 49 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1318 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1318"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414511_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64948 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64948"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eifaREN0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Powell</div> The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451523482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathanael West</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686755 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686755"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679413197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> A Death in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> The Death of the Heart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51366 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51366"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NJN4Z3QZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Bowen</div> Deliverance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10061 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10061"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yFZtBNz2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> Dog Soldiers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66383 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66383"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514V90PKFjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Stone</div> Falconer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18828 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18828"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4105xEF4Z5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> The French Lieutenant's Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6962 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6962"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MxLz7VHNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hI6SDdnyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12548 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12548"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0440330076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12955 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12955"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446365386.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RByRz03GL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Gravity's Rainbow (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2805 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2805"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oZMgL79OL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eiFf1x23L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> A Handful of Dust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7161 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7161"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316926051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IzHYWL%2BHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/510865 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/510865"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415RV3Y0C7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Herzog (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AikSo6bVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Housekeeping: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6440 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6440"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E7kbIih6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilynne Robinson</div> A House for Mr. Biswas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9142 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9142"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PDjmbg31L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Naipaul</div> I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517efjnUZRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Infinite Jest: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89501 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89501"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KGoVkI1rL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BPEBYp8FL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Light in August (The Corrected Text) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CvkLzqUbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1949 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1949"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0064409422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. S. Lewis</div>