Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

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Work
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
A Death in the Family (1957) by James Agee
Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
Money: A Suicide Note (1984) by Martin Amis
The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow
Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume
The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen
The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
Naked Lunch (1962) by William S. Burroughs
Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
Falconer (1977) by John Cheever
White Noise (1984) by Don DeLillo
Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey
Ubik (1966) by Philip K. Dick
Play It As It Lays (1970) by Joan Didion
Ragtime: A Novel (1975) by E. L. Doctorow
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sportswriter (1986) by Richard Ford
A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
Loving (1945) by Henry Green
Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
The Berlin Stories (1945) by Christopher Isherwood
Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird (1965) by Jerzy Kosiński
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) by John le Carré
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis
Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud
Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
Watchmen (1987) by Alan Moore
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) by V. S. Naipaul
At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien
Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O'Hara
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy
A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter (1976) by Anthony Powell
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
Housekeeping (1980) by Marilynne Robinson
Call It Sleep (1934) by Henry Roth
American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint (1967) by Philip Roth
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
Dog Soldiers (1974) by Robert Stone
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) by William Styron
The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh
The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thornton Wilder
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates

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