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Burgess 99

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Henry Green

<< 1939 >>

A personal selection of ninety-nine English language novels published between 1939 and 1983, chosen by author Anthony Burgess. Because he included some trilogies and series, it's actually more than ninety-nine (rather like thinking "all the Beatles" only counts as one on your desert island 10 CD list). To his credit, Burgess did not select any of his own works, the best known of which is A Clockwork Orange (and which was actually not his personal favorite among his own books anyway).

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1939:

Henry Green, Party Going

1939:

Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

1939:

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

1939:

Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two Birds

1940:

Graham Greene, The Power and The Glory

1940:

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

1940:

C.P. Snow, Strangers and Brothers

1941:

Rex Warner, The Aerodome: A Love Story

1944:

Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

1944:

W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge

1945:

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

1946:

Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

1947:

Saul Bellow, The Victim

1947:

Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

1948:

Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

1948:

Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

1948:

Nevil Shute, No Highway

1949:

Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day

1949:

Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence

1949:

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]

1949:

William Sansom, The Body

1950:

Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

1950:

William Cooper, Scenes from Provincial Life

1950:

Budd Schulberg, The Disenchanted

1951:

Anthony Powell, A Question of Upbringing

1951:

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1951:

Henry Williamson, A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight

1951:

Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny

1952:

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

1952:

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

1952:

Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

1952:

Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms

1952:

Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe

1953:

Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market

1953:

Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

1954:

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

1955:

Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

1955:

Evelyn Waugh, Officers and Gentlemen

1957:

Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's

1957:

John Braine, Room at the Top

1957:

Lawrence Durrell, Justine

1957:

Bernard Malamud, The Assistant

1957:

Colin MacInnes, City of Spades

1958:

Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

1958:

Lawrence Durrell, Mountolive

1958:

Iris Murdoch, The Bell

1958:

Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

1958:

T.H. White, The Once and Future King

1959:

William Faulkner, The Mansion

1959:

Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone

1959:

Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

1959:

Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners

1960:

Anthony Powell, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

1960:

Lawrence Durrell, Clea

1960:

Colin MacInnes, Mr. Love and Justice

1960:

L.P. Hartley, Facial Justice

1960:

Olivia Manning, Great Fortune

1961:

Evelyn Waugh, Unconditional Surrender

1961:

Patrick White, Riders in the Chariot

1961:

Richard Hughes, The Fox in the Attic

1961:

Angus Wilson, The Old Men at the Zoo

1962:

Anthony Powell, The Kindly One's

1962:

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

1962:

James Baldwin, Another Country

1962:

Aldous Huxley, Island

1962:

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

1962:

Olivia Manning, The Spoilt City

1962:

Pamela Hansford Johnson, An Error of Judgement

1963:

Muriel Spark, Girls of Slender Means

1964:

Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones

1964:

William Golding, The Spire

1964:

Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

1964:

Vladimir Nabokov, The Defense

1964:

Angus Wilson, Late Call

1964:

Wilson Harris, Heartland

1965:

John O'Hara, The Lockwood Concern

1965:

Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate

1965:

Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes

1966:

Anthony Powell, The Soldier's Art

1966:

Kingsley Amis, The Anti-Death League

1966:

John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy

1966:

Nadine Gordimer, The Late Borgeois World

1966:

Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman

1967:

R.K. Narayan, The Vendor of Sweets

1968:

Anthony Powell, The Military Philosophers

1968:

J.B. Priestley, The Image Men

1968:

Mordecai Richler, Cocksure

1968:

Keith Roberts, Pavane

1969:

John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

1969:

Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

1970:

Len Deighton, Bomber

1971:

Anthony Powell, Books Do Furnish a Room

1973:

Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings

1973:

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

1973:

Michael Frayn, Sweet Dreams

1975:

Anthony Powell, Hearing Secret Harmonies

1975:

Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift

1975:

Malcolm Bradbury, The History of Man

1976:

Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife

1976:

Robert Nye, Falstaff

1977:

Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life

1977:

Paul Scott, Staying On

1977:

James Plunkett, Farewell Companions

1978:

John Updike, The Coup

1979:

J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Factory

1979:

Bernard Malamud, Dubin's Lives

1979:

William Styron, Sophie's Choice

1979:

V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

1980:

John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

1980:

Brian W. Aldiss, Life in the West

1980:

Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

1980:

David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?

1981:

Alasdair Gray, Lanark

1981:

Gore Vidal, Creation

1981:

Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast

1982:

Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels

1983:

Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings

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