Saturday, 19 July 2014

100 best English-language novels published since 1923 — the beginning of TIME

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100 best English-language novels published since 1923 — the beginning of TIME

  1. Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March 
  2. Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men 
  3. Philip Roth: American Pastoral 
  4. Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy  (1925)
  5. George Orwell: Animal Farm 
  6. John O'Hara: Appointment in Samarra 
  7. Judy Blume: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret 
  8. Bernard Malamud: The Assistant 
  9. Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds 
  10. Ian McEwan: Atonement 
  11. Toni Morrison: Beloved 
  12. Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories 
  13. Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep 
  14. Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin 
  15. Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian 
  16. Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited 
  17. Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  18. Henry Roth: Call It Sleep 
  19. Joseph Heller: Catch-22 
  20. J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye 
  21. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange 
  22. William Styron: The Confessions of Nat Turner 
  23. Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections 
  24. Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 
  25. Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time 
  26. Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust 
  27. Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop 
  28. James Agee: A Death in the Family 
  29. Elizabeth Bowen: The Death of the Heart 
  30. James Dickey: Deliverance 
  31. Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers
  32. John Cheever: Falconer 
  33. John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman 
  34. Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook 
  35. James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain 
  36. Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind 
  37. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath 
  38. Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow 
  39. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby H - I 
  40. Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust 
  41. Carson McCullers: The Heart is A Lonely Hunter 
  42. Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter 
  43. Saul Bellow: Herzog 
  44. Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping 
  45. V. S. Naiapul: A House for Mr. Biswas 
  46. Robert Graves: I, Claudius 
  47. David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest 
  48. Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
  49. William Faulkner: Light in August 
  50. C. S. Lewis: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe 
  51. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita 
  52. William Golding: Lord of the Flies 
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings 
  54. Henry Green: Loving
  55. Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
  56. Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children 
  57. Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children 
  58. Martin Amis: Money
  59. Walker Percy: The Moviegoer 
  60. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway 
  61. William Burroughs: The Naked Lunch 
  62. Richard Wright: Native Son 
  63. William Gibson: Neuromancer 
  64. Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go 
  65. George Orwell: 1984
  66. Jack Kerouac: On the Road 
  67. Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 
  68. Jerzy Kosinski: The Painted Bird 
  69. Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire 
  70. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India 
  71. Joan Didion: Play It As It Lays 
  72. Philip Roth: Portnoy’s Complaint 
  73. A. S. Byatt: Possession 
  74. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory 
  75. Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 
  76. John Updike: Rabbit, Run 
  77. E. L. Doctorow: Ragtime 
  78. William Gaddis: The Recognitions 
  79. Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest 
  80. Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road S - T 
  81. Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky 
  82. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five 
  83. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash 
  84. John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor 
  85. William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury 
  86. Richard Ford: The Sportswriter 
  87. John le Carré: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold 
  88. Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises 
  89. Zora N. Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God 
  90. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 
  91. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird 
  92. Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse 
  93. Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer
  94. Philip K. Dick: Ubik 
  95. Iris Murdoch: Under the Net 
  96. Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano 
  97. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen 
  98. Don Delillo: White Noise 
  99. Zadie Smith: White Teeth 
  100. Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea

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