Lists of Bests: Time's 100 Greatest English-Language Novels http://www.listsofbests.com/list/26835 Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-Language novels from 1923 to the present. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:46:59 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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156004801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487798 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487798"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099771810.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619578 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EVNTBM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619597 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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/2151671 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judy Blume</div> The Assistant http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2593802 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Malamud</div> Swim-Two-Birds http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2553551 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2553551"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/2251442197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038572179X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741968 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Isherwood</div> The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/529560 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/529560"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140108920.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> The Blind Assassin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337828 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337828"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1860498809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Blood Meridian (Picador Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63367 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63367"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330312561.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Bridge of San Luis Ray http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489095 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489095"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000K0CD82.01-A3IR684A8KT0GX._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> Call It Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/929913 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/929913"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000F8L4G6.01-ADA4TVZMALFG4._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Roth</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BJV3E2.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49951 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49951"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014027409X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Confessions of Nat Turner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338076 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338076"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099285568.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> The Corrections http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268177 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268177"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841156736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020142 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020142"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006091307X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> A Dance to the Music of Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499261 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499261"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0749391588.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335588 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335588"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1417904232.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> A Death In The Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499790 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499790"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BY9FTC.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720173.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Bowen</div> Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2598706 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2598706"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747540888.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> Dog Soldiers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2581914 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2581914"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330370960.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Stone</div> Falconer - John Cheever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2598723 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by </div> The French Lieutenant's Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/717167 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/717167"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EY3W5W.01-A34BGT9FQIAQY3._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45554637_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics) 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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006093140X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1678501 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1678501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Gone With the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189502 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189502"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067168387X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herb Bridges</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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Gravity's Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/369970 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/369970"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187468.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Herzog (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437298.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618084746.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> The Heart of the Matter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099478420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312424094.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilynne Robinson</div> A House for Mister Biswas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919992 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Naipaul</div> I, Claudius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46917 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> The Invisible Man (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13965 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13965"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528522.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.G. Wells</div> Light in August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Infinite Jest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316066524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668888 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>