100 best English-language novels published since 1923 — the beginning of TIME
- Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March
- Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men
- Philip Roth: American Pastoral
- Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy (1925)
- George Orwell: Animal Farm
- John O'Hara: Appointment in Samarra
- Judy Blume: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
- Bernard Malamud: The Assistant
- Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds
- Ian McEwan: Atonement
- Toni Morrison: Beloved
- Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories
- Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep
- Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
- Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
- Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
- Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Henry Roth: Call It Sleep
- Joseph Heller: Catch-22
- J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
- William Styron: The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
- Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
- Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time
- Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
- Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop
- James Agee: A Death in the Family
- Elizabeth Bowen: The Death of the Heart
- James Dickey: Deliverance
- Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers
- John Cheever: Falconer
- John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
- James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain
- Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind
- John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
- Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby H - I
- Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust
- Carson McCullers: The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
- Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter
- Saul Bellow: Herzog
- Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping
- V. S. Naiapul: A House for Mr. Biswas
- Robert Graves: I, Claudius
- David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
- William Faulkner: Light in August
- C. S. Lewis: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
- Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
- William Golding: Lord of the Flies
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
- Henry Green: Loving
- Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
- Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children
- Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
- Martin Amis: Money
- Walker Percy: The Moviegoer
- Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
- William Burroughs: The Naked Lunch
- Richard Wright: Native Son
- William Gibson: Neuromancer
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
- George Orwell: 1984
- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Jerzy Kosinski: The Painted Bird
- Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
- E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
- Joan Didion: Play It As It Lays
- Philip Roth: Portnoy’s Complaint
- A. S. Byatt: Possession
- Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
- Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- John Updike: Rabbit, Run
- E. L. Doctorow: Ragtime
- William Gaddis: The Recognitions
- Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest
- Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road S - T
- Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
- Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five
- Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
- John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor
- William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
- Richard Ford: The Sportswriter
- John le Carré: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
- Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
- Zora N. Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
- Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
- Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer
- Philip K. Dick: Ubik
- Iris Murdoch: Under the Net
- Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen
- Don Delillo: White Noise
- Zadie Smith: White Teeth
- Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea