All-TIME 100 Novels

gunsmoke

backnextHide All
Books
All-TIME 100 Novels
Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME.
A - B

    The Adventures of Augie March
    All the King's Men
    American Pastoral
    An American Tragedy
    Animal Farm
    Appointment in Samarra
    Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    The Assistant
    At Swim-Two-Birds
    Atonement
    Beloved
    The Berlin Stories
    The Big Sleep
    The Blind Assassin
    Blood Meridian
    Brideshead Revisited
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

C - D

    Call It Sleep
    Catch-22
    The Catcher in the Rye
    A Clockwork Orange
    The Confessions of Nat Turner
    The Corrections
    The Crying of Lot 49
    A Dance to the Music of Time
    The Day of the Locust
    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    A Death in the Family
    The Death of the Heart
    Deliverance
    Dog Soldiers

F - G

    Falconer
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    The Golden Notebook
    Go Tell it on the Mountain
    Gone With the Wind
    The Grapes of Wrath
    Gravity's Rainbow
    The Great Gatsby

H - I

    A Handful of Dust
    The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
    The Heart of the Matter
    Herzog
    Housekeeping
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    I, Claudius
    Infinite Jest
    Invisible Man

L - N

    Light in August
    The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
    Lolita
    Lord of the Flies
    The Lord of the Rings
    Loving
    The Moviegoer
    Lucky Jim
    The Man Who Loved Children
    Midnight's Children
    Money
    Mrs. Dalloway
    Naked Lunch
    Native Son
    Neuromancer
    Never Let Me Go
    1984

O - R

    On the Road
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    The Painted Bird
    Pale Fire
    A Passage to India
    Play It As It Lays
    Portnoy's Complaint
    Possession
    The Power and the Glory
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    Rabbit, Run
    Ragtime
    The Recognitions
    Red Harvest
    Revolutionary Road

S - T

    The Sheltering Sky
    Slaughterhouse Five
    Snow Crash
    The Sot-Weed Factor
    The Sound and the Fury
    The Sportswriter
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    The Sun Also Rises
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    Things Fall Apart
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    To the Lighthouse
    Tropic of Cancer

U - W

    Ubik
    Under the Net
    Under the Volcano
    Watchmen
    White Noise
    White Teeth
    Wide Sargasso Sea

Graphic Novels

    Berlin: City of Stones (2000), by Jason Lutes
    Blankets (2003), by Craig Thompson
    Bone (2004), by Jeff Smith
    The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2002), by Kim Deitch
    The Dark Knight Returns (1986), by Frank Miller
    David Boring (2000), by Daniel Clowes
    Ed the Happy Clown (1989), by Chester Brown
    Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), by Chris Ware
    Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (2003), by Gilbert Hernandez
    Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

About the List

    TIME'S List of the 100 Best Novels

Making the List

    How We Picked the List

Your Opinion

    Tell us your thoughts about TIME's ALL-TIME 100 Novels

emailprint
share

Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/20 ... vels/#ixzz1dYGv8uu4