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Time Magazine's "All-Time 100"

Description: http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/times-list-of-the-100-best-novels/ Time Magazine book critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo select the 100 greatest novels since 1923 - when Time Magazine began publishing

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To Kill a Mockingbird

78,658 members

1,433 reviews

½ 4.4

10 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, darlenebuckner, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,334 members

1,172 reviews

3.8

9 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Orwell

60,169 members

888 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,093 members

706 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

45,885 members

767 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Orwell

82,160 members

1,274 reviews

4.2

8 Members: Rtrace, booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,379 members

475 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, booksinbed, mellowout124, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,001 members

337 reviews

3.8

7 Members: aprille, booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,592 members

265 reviews

4

7 Members: Rtrace, booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Virginia Woolf

20,674 members

331 reviews

3.9

7 Members: Rtrace, booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

54,827 members

488 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: Rtrace, booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,713 members

745 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca

13

by Toni Morrison

22,899 members

408 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,657 members

1,081 reviews

3.8

6 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Neal Stephenson

20,210 members

398 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aprille, hipdeep, mellowout124, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

19,174 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,159 members

346 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

18

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,472 members

142 reviews

3.8

6 Members: mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

22,916 members

938 reviews

3.8

6 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Joseph Heller

40,079 members

527 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, Laura1124

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

7,714 members

241 reviews

3.8

5 Members: mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

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by J. R. R. Tolkien

48,544 members

309 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: Rtrace, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

46,894 members

283 reviews

½ 4.5

6 Members: Rtrace, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Raymond Chandler

10,310 members

284 reviews

4

5 Members: mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by William Gibson

23,096 members

379 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aprille, hipdeep, Rtrace, mellowout124, rretzler

26

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

7,775 members

123 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aprille, booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,758 members

564 reviews

4.1

5 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,739 members

243 reviews

4

5 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,920 members

244 reviews

4

5 Members: aprille, booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

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by Ralph Ellison

16,214 members

212 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, mellowout124, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca

31

Portnoy's Complaint

7,381 members

155 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aprille, booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

32

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John le Carré

8,621 members

239 reviews

4

5 Members: aprille, hipdeep, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963

33

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,704 members

432 reviews

3.8

5 Members: mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca, ManWithAnAgenda

34

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,266 members

298 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963

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12,972 members

289 reviews

4

5 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,480 members

384 reviews

3.9

4 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

37

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,912 members

389 reviews

4

4 Members: Rtrace, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963

38

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,621 members

341 reviews

3.8

4 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

39

26,534 members

629 reviews

3.9

4 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

40

by Kingsley Amis

5,808 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aprille, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963

41

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,482 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

5,079 members

84 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

43

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,330 members

129 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, mellowout124, Laura1124

44

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

5,958 members

147 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, Rtrace, mellowout124, Laura1124

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by Robert Graves

9,191 members

167 reviews

4.2

4 Members: Rtrace, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

46

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,321 members

226 reviews

4

4 Members: mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124, bmacedomendonca

47

by Jack Kerouac

27,968 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: mellowout124, Laura1124, DanielSTJ

48

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,522 members

441 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, Laura1124

49

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,215 members

171 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, rretzler, ahef1963

50

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,292 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, MyFathersDragon

51

Appointment in Samarra

1,805 members

44 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

52

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,628 members

271 reviews

3.9

4 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

53

11,013 members

173 reviews

3.8

4 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

54

American Pastoral

8,078 members

180 reviews

3.9

3 Members: booksinbed, mellowout124, Laura1124

55

At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien

3,278 members

63 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, mellowout124

56

The Adventures of Augie March

3,864 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mellowout124, Laura1124

57

2,107 members

40 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, booksinbed, mellowout124

58

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,546 members

108 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, ahef1963

59

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,860 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mellowout124, ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

11,012 members

194 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

61

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

10,777 members

141 reviews

4.1

2 Members: mellowout124, MyFathersDragon

62

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

4,406 members

92 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, Rtrace, mellowout124

63

5,207 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

64

by James Dickey

2,588 members

59 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

65

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,795 members

246 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, ahef1963

66

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

3,452 members

69 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

67

by Marilynne Robinson

6,370 members

214 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

68

by Walker Percy

4,699 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: hipdeep, mellowout124, Laura1124

69

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,243 members

104 reviews

4

3 Members: mellowout124, ahef1963, Laura1124

70

by Richard Wright

7,737 members

101 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, mellowout124, Laura1124

71

by John Cheever

1,406 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

72

Ragtime: A Novel

by E. L. Doctorow

6,261 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

73

The Sheltering Sky

4,320 members

79 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

74

by Iris Murdoch

2,138 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

75

The Sportswriter

by Richard Ford

2,923 members

61 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, mellowout124, Laura1124

76

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,178 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Rtrace, mellowout124

77

by Bernard Malamud

1,572 members

29 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

78

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

4,783 members

119 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

79

by Cormac McCarthy

11,622 members

273 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

80

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,770 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, mellowout124

81

by Robert Stone

1,011 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

82

A Death in the Family

3,051 members

67 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mellowout124, Laura1124

83

The Death of the Heart

by Elizabeth Bowen

1,693 members

39 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mellowout124, Laura1124

84

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński

2,976 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

85

721 members

19 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

86

Play It As It Lays

2,961 members

59 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

87

The Man Who Loved Children

by Christina Stead

1,444 members

45 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

88

Money: A Suicide Note

3,297 members

55 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

89

The Sot-Weed Factor

2,101 members

40 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

90

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,220 members

36 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

91

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

8,831 members

131 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

92

6,150 members

110 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mellowout124, Laura1124

93

by Philip K. Dick

7,619 members

162 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, mellowout124

94

by Vladimir Nabokov

7,966 members

140 reviews

4.2

2 Members: mellowout124, Laura1124

95

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,000 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: mellowout124

96

by Dashiell Hammett

3,016 members

88 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mellowout124, Laura1124

97

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,410 members

89 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mellowout124, Laura1124

98

13,669 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mellowout124, Laura1124

99

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,731 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: mellowout124

100

A Question of Upbringing

by Anthony Powell

1,021 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mellowout124

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