Time's All-Time 100 Novels 1923-Present (2005)
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| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 1962 |
| A Dance to the Music of Time | ||
| A Question of Upbringing | Anthony Powell | 1951 |
| A Buyer's Market | Anthony Powell | 1952 |
| The Acceptance World | Anthony Powell | 1955 |
| At Lady Molly's | Anthony Powell | 1957 |
| Casanova's Chinese Restaurant | Anthony Powell | 1960 |
| The Kindly Ones | Anthony Powell | 1962 |
| The Valley of Bones | Anthony Powell | 1964 |
| The Soldier's Art | Anthony Powell | 1966 |
| The Military Philosophers | Anthony Powell | 1968 |
| Books Do Furnish a Room | Anthony Powell | 1971 |
| Temporary Kings | Anthony Powell | 1973 |
| Hearing Secret Harmonies | Anthony Powell | 1975 |
| A Death in the Family | James Agee | 1956 |
| A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh | 1934 |
| A House for Mr. Biswas | V. S. Naipaul | 1961 |
| A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | 1924 |
| All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | 1946 |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth | 1997 |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | 1925 |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 |
| Appointment in Samarra | John O'Hara | 1934 |
| Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. | Judy Blume | 1970 |
| At Swim-Two-Birds | Flann O'Brien | 1939 |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | 2001 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | 1985 |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 1945 |
| Call It Sleep | Henry Roth | 1934 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | 1927 |
| Deliverance | James Dickey | 1970 |
| Dog Soldiers | Robert Stone | 1974 |
| Falconer | John Cheever | 1977 |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin | 1953 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 1973 |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow | 1964 |
| Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | 1980 |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves | 1934 |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 1996 |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 |
| Light in August | William Faulkner | 1932 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1954 |
| Loving | Henry Green | 1945 |
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | 1954 |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 |
| Money | Martin Amis | 1984 |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 1925 |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs | 1959 |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | 1940 |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 1949 |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1957 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 1962 |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | 1962 |
| Play It as It Lays | Joan Didion | 1970 |
| Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth | 1969 |
| Possession: A Romance | A. S. Byatt | 1990 |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike | 1960 |
| Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow | 1975 |
| Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett | 1929 |
| Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | 1961 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | 1992 |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow | 1953 |
| The Assistant | Bernard Malamud | 1957 |
| The Berlin Stories | Christopher Isherwood | 1946 |
| The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 1939 |
| The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 2000 |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder | 1927 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 |
| The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron | 1967 |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 |
| The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | 1966 |
| The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West | 1939 |
| The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen | 1939 |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles | 1969 |
| The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | 1962 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 |
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | 1940 |
| The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene | 1948 |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis | 1950 |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1955 |
| The Man Who Loved Children | Christina Stead | 1940 |
| The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | 1961 |
| The Painted Bird | Jerzy Kosinski | 1967 |
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | 1940 |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | 1961 |
| The Recognitions | William Gaddis | 1955 |
| The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles | 1949 |
| The Sot-Weed Factor | John Barth | 1960 |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 |
| The Sportswriter | Richard Ford | 1986 |
| The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John le Carre | 1963 |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 1937 |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 1959 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 1927 |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1934 |
| Ubik | Philip K. Dick | 1969 |
| Under the Net | Iris Murdoch | 1954 |
| Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry | 1947 |
| Watchmen | Alan Moore | 1986 |
| White Noise | Don DeLillo | 1985 |
| White Teeth | Zadie Smith | 2000 |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | 1966 |