Best 100 Novels – Time

  1. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
  2. All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
  3. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
  4. An American Tragedy – Theodore DreiserAnimal Farm – George Orwell
  5. Appointment in Samarra – John O’Hara
  6. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy BlumeThe Assistant – Bernard Malamud
  7. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’BrienAtonement – Ian McEwan
  8. Beloved – Toni Morrison
  9. The Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood
  10. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

  11. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
  12. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthyBrideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  13. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
  14. Call It Sleep – Henry Roth
  15. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  16. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  17. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  18. The Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron
  19. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
  20. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
  21. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
  22. The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
  23. Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa CatherA Death in the Family – James AgeeThe Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
  24. Deliverance – James Dickey
  25. Dog Soldiers – Robert Stone
  26. Falconer – John Cheever
  27. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  28. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  29. Go Tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  30. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  31. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  32. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
  33. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  34. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
  35. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
  36. The Heart of the Matter – Graham GreeneHerzog – Saul Bellow
  37. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
  38. A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
  39. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
  40. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
  41. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison