Time’s 100 Best Novels Challenge

Time Magazine’s 100 All-Time Best Novels (32/100)

The Adventures of Augie March    - Saul Bellow

All the King’s Men    - Robert Penn Warren

American Pastoral    - Philip Roth

An American Tragedy    - Theodore Dreiser

Animal Farm    - George Orwell

Appointment in Samarra    - John O’Hara

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret    - Judy Blume

The Assistant    - Bernard Malamud

At Swim-Two-Birds    - Flann O’Brien

Atonement    - Ian McEwan

Beloved – Toni Morrison  

The Berlin Stories    - Christopher Isherwood

The Big Sleep    - Raymond Chandler

The Blind Assassin    - Margaret Atwood

Blood Meridian    - Cormac McCarthy

Brideshead Revisited    - Evelyn Waugh

The Bridge of San Luis Rey    - Thornton Wilder

Call It Sleep    - Henry Roth

Catch-22    - Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye    - J.D. Salinger

A Clockwork Orange    - Anthony Burgess

The Confessions of Nat Turner    - William Styron

The Corrections    - Jonathan Franzen

The Crying of Lot 49    - Thomas Pynchon

A Dance to the Music of Time    - Anthony Powell

The Day of the Locust    - Nathanael West

Death Comes for the Archbishop    - Willa Cather

A Death in the Family    - James Agee

The Death of the Heart    - Elizabeth Bowen

Deliverance    - James Dickey

Dog Soldiers    - Robert Stone

Falconer    - John Cheever

The French Lieutenant’s Woman    - John Fowles

The Golden Notebook    - Doris Lessing

Go Tell it on the Mountain    - James Baldwin

Gone With the Wind    - Margaret Mitchell

The Grapes of Wrath    - John Steinbeck

Gravity’s Rainbow    - Thomas Pynchon

The Great Gatsby    - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Handful of Dust    - Evelyn Waugh

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter    - Carson McCullers

The Heart of the Matter    - Graham Greene

Herzog    - Saul Bellow

Housekeeping    - Marilynne Robinson

A House for Mr. Biswas    - V.S. Naipaul

I, Claudius    - Robert Graves

Infinite Jest    - David Foster Wallace

Invisible Man    - Ralph Ellison

Light in August    - William Faulkner

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe    - C.S. Lewis

Lolita    - Vladimir Nabokov

Lord of the Flies    - William Golding

The Lord of the Rings    - J.R.R. Tolkien

Loving    - Henry Green

Lucky Jim    - Kingsley Amis

The Man Who Loved Children    - Christina Stead

Midnight’s Children    - Salman Rushdie

Money    - Martin Amis

The Moviegoer    - Walker Percy

Mrs. Dalloway    - Virginia Woolf

Naked Lunch    - William Burroughs

Native Son    - Richard Wright

Neuromancer    - William Gibson

Never Let Me Go    - Kazuo Ishiguro

1984    - George Orwell

On the Road – Jack Kerouac  

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest    - Ken Kesey

The Painted Bird    - Jerzy Kosinski

Pale Fire    - Vladimir Nabokov

A Passage to India    - E.M. Forster

Play It As It Lays    - Joan Didion

Portnoy’s Complaint    - Philip Roth

Possession    - A.S. Byatt

The Power and the Glory    - Graham Greene

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie    - Muriel Spark

Rabbit, Run    - John Updike

Ragtime    - E.L. Doctorow

The Recognitions    - William Gaddis

Red Harvest    - Dashiell Hammett

Revolutionary Road    - Richard Yates

The Sheltering Sky    - Paul Bowles

Slaughterhouse-Five    - Kurt Vonnegut

Snow Crash    - Neal Stephenson

The Sot-Weed Factor    - John Barth

The Sound and the Fury    - William Faulkner

The Sportswriter    - Richard Ford

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold    - John le Carre

The Sun Also Rises    - Ernest Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God    - Zora Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart    - Chinua Achebe

To Kill a Mockingbird    - Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse    - Virginia Woolf

Tropic of Cancer    - Henry Miller

Ubik    - Philip K. Dick

Under the Net    - Iris Murdoch

Under the Volcano    - Malcolm Lowry

Watchmen    - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

White Noise    - Don DeLillo

White Teeth    - Zadie Smith

Wide Sargasso Sea    - Jean Rhys

 

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