Welcome to the massive, anguished, exalted undertaking that is the ALL TIME 100 books list. The parameters: English language novels published anywhere in the world since 1923, the year that TIME Magazine began, which, before you ask, means that Ulysses (1922) doesn’t make the cut. (Yes, I know this is an older list, but I would still like to think that “popularity” does not always = “quality.”)
There is a slide show with detailed descriptions of each chosen title. Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/?iid=ent-main-feature#all
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
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
Read more:http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/?iid=ent-main-feature#all#ixzz1yjVi1d6G
Are there any from the list that you would put as one of your favorites? I, for example, would choose Brideshead Revisited, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and Lord of the Flies.
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