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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 - Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis. Read June 2006.
4 - Money, Martin Amis
5 - The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood. Read April 2006.
6 - Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
7 - The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth. Read BBC.
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 - A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess. Read July 2006.
14 - Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
15 - Possession, A S Byatt
16 - Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
17 - The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler. Read BBC.
18 - Falconer, John Cheever
19 - White Noise, Don DeLillo
20 - Ubik, Philip K Dick. Read BBC.
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 - The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald. Read BBC.
29 - The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
30 - A Passage to India, E M Forster. Read June 2006.
31 - The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
32 - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
33 - The Recognitions, William Gaddis
34 - Neuromancer, William Gibson. Read BBC.
35 - Lord Of The Flies, William Golding. Read May 2006.
36 - I, Claudius, Robert Graves
37 - Loving, Henry Green
38 - The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene. Read July 2006.
39 - The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
40 - Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
41 - Catch-22, Joseph Heller. Read BBC.
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 - On The Road, Jack Kerouac. Read May 2006.
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 - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C S Lewis. Read BBC.
53 - Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
54 - The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
55 - Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
56 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (1940). Read July 2006.
57 - Atonement, Ian McEwan. Read June 2006.
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 - Animal Farm, George Orwell. Read BBC.
69 - 1984, George Orwell. Read BBC.
70 - The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
71 - A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell
72 - Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon. Read BBC.
73 - The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
74 - Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
75 - Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson. Read June 2006.
76 - Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
77 - American Pastoral, Philip Roth
78 - Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
79 - Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
80 - The Catcher In The Rye, J D Salinger. Read January 2006.
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 - Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson. Read BBC.
86 - Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
87 - The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
88 - The Lord of the Rings, J R R Tolkien. Read BBC.
89 - Rabbit, Run, John Updike
90 - Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut. Read BBC.
91 - Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
92 - All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
93 - Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
94 - A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh. Read June 2006.
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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