Time Magazine 100 Novels

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.

2005
Never Let Me Go
2001
The Corrections
2001
Atonement
2000
White Teeth
2000
The Blind Assassin
1996
Infinite Jest
1992
Snow Crash
1990
Possession
1987
Beloved
1986
The Sportswriter
1986
Watchmen
1985
White Noise
1985
Blood Meridian
1984
Neuromancer
1984
Money
1981
Midnight's Children
1980
Housekeeping
1977
Falconer
1975
Hearing Secret Harmonies
1975
Ragtime
1974
Dog Soldiers
1973-03-14
Gravity's Rainbow
1973
Temporary Kings
1971
Books Do Furnish a Room
1970
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
1970
Play It as It Lays
1970-03-23
Deliverance
1969
Ubik
1969-02-21
Portnoy's Complaint
1969
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1969-03-31
Slaughterhouse-Five
1968
The Military Philosophers
1967
The Confessions of Nat Turner
1966-04-27
The Crying of Lot 49
1966
The Soldier's Art
1966
Wide Sargasso Sea
1965
The Painted Bird
1964
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
1964-09-21
Herzog
1964
The Valley of Bones
1962-02-1
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1962
The Kindly One's
1962
Pale Fire
1962
The Golden Notebook
1962
A Clockwork Orange
1961-05-15
The Moviegoer
1961
A House for Mr. Biswas
1961
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1961
Revolutionary Road
1961-10-10
Catch-22
1960-07-11
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
1960-08-19
The Sot-Weed Factor
1959
The Naked Lunch
1959-10-19
Rabbit, Run
1958
Things Fall Apart
1957
At Lady Molly's
1957-09-05
On the Road
1957
The Assistant
1957
A Death in the Family
1955
The Acceptance World
1955
Lolita
1955
The Return of the King
1955
The Recognitions
1954
Under the Net
1954
The Two Towers
1954
The Fellowship of the Ring
1954
Lucky Jim
1953-09-18
The Adventures of Augie March
1953
A Buyer's Market
1953-03-18
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1952
Invisible Man
1951
A Question of Upbringing
1951-07-16
The Catcher in the Rye
1950
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]
1949
The Sheltering Sky
1948
The Heart of the Matter
1947
Under the Volcano
1946-08-22
All the King's Men
1945
Animal Farm
1945
Brideshead Revisited
1945
Loving
1940
Native Son
1940-06-04
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1940
The Power and The Glory
1940
The Man Who Loved Children
1939-04-14
The Grapes of Wrath
1939
At Swim-Two Birds
1939
The Day of the Locust
1939
Goodbye to Berlin
1939
The Big Sleep
1937
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1936
The Death of the Heart
1936-06-30
Gone with the Wind
1935
Mr. Norris Changes Trains
1934
A Handful of Dust
1934
Appointment in Samarra
1934
Tropic of Cancer
1934
I, Claudius
1934
Call It Sleep
1932-10-06
Light in August
1929-10-07
The Sound and the Fury
1929
Red Harvest
1927
To the Lighthouse
1927
Death Comes for the Archbishop
1927-11-03
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1926-10-22
The Sun Also Rises
1925-05-14
Mrs. Dalloway
1925-04-10
The Great Gatsby
1925
An American Tragedy
1924-06-04
A Passage to India