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Time Magazine 100 Novels

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E.M. Forster

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Not to be outdone during the post-millennial "100 Best List" hysteria, Time Magazine asked its critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo to choose the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.

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1924:

E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

1925:

Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy

1925:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

1925:

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

1926:

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

1927:

Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1927:

Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

1927:

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

1929:

Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

1929:

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

1932:

William Faulkner, Light in August

1934:

John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra

1934:

Henry Roth, Call It Sleep

1934:

Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

1934:

Robert Graves, I, Claudius

1934:

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

1935:

Christopher Isherwood, Mr. Norris Changes Trains

1936:

Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

1936:

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

1937:

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

1939:

Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two Birds

1939:

Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin

1939:

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

1939:

Nathanael West, Day of the Locust

1939:

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

1940:

Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

1940:

Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children

1940:

Richard Wright, Native Son

1940:

Graham Greene, The Power and The Glory

1945:

George Orwell, Animal Farm

1945:

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

1945:

Henry Green, Loving

1946:

Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

1947:

Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

1948:

Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

1949:

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]

1949:

Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

1950:

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

1951:

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1951:

Anthony Powell, A Question of Upbringing

1952:

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

1953:

Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

1953:

Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market

1953:

James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

1954:

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

1954:

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

1954:

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

1954:

Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

1955:

Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

1955:

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

1955:

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

1955:

William Gaddis, The Recognitions

1957:

Bernard Malamud, The Assistant

1957:

Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's

1957:

James Agee, A Death in the Family

1957:

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

1958:

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

1959:

William S. Burroughs, The Naked Lunch

1959:

John Updike, Rabbit, Run

1960:

Anthony Powell, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

1960:

John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor

1960:

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

1961:

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

1961:

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

1961:

Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

1961:

Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1961:

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

1962:

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

1962:

Anthony Powell, The Kindly One's

1962:

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

1962:

Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962:

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

1964:

Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones

1964:

Saul Bellow, Herzog

1964:

John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

1965:

Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird

1966:

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

1966:

Anthony Powell, The Soldier's Art

1966:

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

1967:

William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

1968:

Anthony Powell, The Military Philosophers

1969:

John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

1969:

Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

1969:

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

1969:

Philip K. Dick, Ubik

1970:

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

1970:

James Dickey, Deliverance

1970:

Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays

1971:

Anthony Powell, Books Do Furnish a Room

1973:

Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings

1973:

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

1974:

Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers

1975:

Anthony Powell, Hearing Secret Harmonies

1975:

E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

1977:

John Cheever, Falconer

1980:

Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

1981:

Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

1984:

Martin Amis, Money

1984:

William Gibson, Neuromancer

1985:

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridan

1985:

Don DeLillo, White Noise

1986:

Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

1986:

Alan Moore, Watchmen

1987:

Toni Morrison, Beloved

1990:

A.S. Byatt, Possession

1992:

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

1996:

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

2000:

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

2000:

Zadie Smith, White Teeth

2001:

Ian McEwan, Atonement

2001:

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

2005:

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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