the UrbanSpaceman MENU Time 100 Best English-language Novels since 1923 In 2005, Time magazine in the USA produced their list of the 100 Best English-language novels since 1923. I'm hoping to read them all in due course. This page is track my progress. I've also decided to try to read the books on a number of other lists - see List Central for more information. Read BBC means "Read BBC", so the the book is not registered on BC/has no journal entry. Number of Time 100 Best novels read: 25 ** Time didn't rank the novels, so they are listed in alphabetical order by author. ** 1 - Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 2 - A Death in the Family, James Agee 3 - 4 - Money, Martin Amis 5 - 6 - Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin 7 - 8 - The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 9 - Herzog, Saul Bellow 10 - The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles 11 - The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen 12 - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume 13 - 14 - Naked Lunch, William Burroughs 15 - Possession, A S Byatt 16 - Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather 17 - 18 - Falconer, John Cheever 19 - White Noise, Don DeLillo 20 - 21 - Deliverance, James Dickey 22 - Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion 23 - Ragtime, E L Doctorow 24 - An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser 25 - Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 26 - Light in August, William Faulkner 27 - The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner 28 - 29 - The Sportswriter, Richard Ford 30 - 31 - The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles 32 - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 33 - The Recognitions, William Gaddis 34 - 35 - 36 - I, Claudius, Robert Graves 37 - Loving, Henry Green 38 - 39 - The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene 40 - Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett 41 - 42 - The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 43 - Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 44 - The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood 45 - Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 46 - 47 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey 48 - The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski 49 - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John le Carre 50 - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 51 - The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing 52 - 53 - Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry 54 - The Assistant, Bernard Malamud 55 - Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 56 - 57 - 58 - Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller 59 - Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 60 - Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 61 - Beloved, Toni Morrison 62 - Under the Net, Iris Murdoch 63 - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 64 - Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov 65 - A House for Mr Biswas, V S Naipaul 66 - At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien 67 - Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara 68 - 69 - 70 - The Moviegoer, Walker Percy 71 - A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell 72 - 73 - The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon 74 - Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys 75 - 76 - Call It Sleep, Henry Roth 77 - American Pastoral, Philip Roth 78 - Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth 79 - Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie 80 - 81 - White Teeth, Zadie Smith 82 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark 83 - The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead 84 - The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 85 - 86 - Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone 87 - The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron 88 - 89 - Rabbit, Run, John Updike 90 - 91 - Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace 92 - All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren 93 - Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 94 - 95 - The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West 96 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder 97 - Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf. 98 - To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf 99 - Native Son, Richard Wright 100 - Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates |
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