TIME 100 Novels

• The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow

• All the King’s Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren

• American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth 

• An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser

• Animal Farm (1946) by George Orwell 

• Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O’Hara

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume 

• The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud 

• At Swim-Two-Birds (1938) Flann O’ Brien

• Atonement (2002) by Ian McEwan

• Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison 

• The Berlin Stories (1946) by Christopher Isherwood

• The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler 

• The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood 

• Blood Meridian (1986) by Cormac McCarthy 

• Brideshead Revisited (1946) by Evelyn Waugh

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thornton Wilder

• Call it Sleep (1935) by Henry Roth

• Catch 22 (1961) by Joseph Heller 

• The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger 

• A Clockwork Orange (1963) by Anthony Burgess

• The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) by William Styron

• The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen 

• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon

• A Dance to the Music of Time (1951) by Anthony Powell

• The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West

• Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather 

• A Death in the Family (1958) by James Agee

• The Death of the Heart (1958) by Elizabeth Bowen

• Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey 

• Dog Soldiers (1974) by Robert Stone 

• Falconer (1977) by John Cheever 

• The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles 

• The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing

• Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin 

• Gone With The Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell 

• The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck

• Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon

• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• A Handful of Dust (1935) by Evelyn Waugh

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers 

• The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene

• Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow

• Housekeeping (1981) by Marilynne Robinson

• A House for Mr. Biswas (1962) by V.S. Naipaul

• I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves 

• Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace 

• Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison

• Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner

• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis 

• Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov 

• Lord of the Flies (1955) by William Golding 

• The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien

• Loving (1945) by Henry Green

• Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis

• The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead

• Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie

• Money (1984) by Martin Amis

• The Moviegoer (1964) by Walker Percy 

• Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf 

• Naked Lunch (1959) by William Burroughs

• Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright 

• Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson 

• Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro 

• 1984 (1948) by George Orwell 

• On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac

• One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey 

• The Painted Bird (1965) by Jerzy Kosinski

• Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov

• A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster

• Play It As It Lays (1970) by Joan Didion

• Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth

• Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt

• The Power and the Glory (1939) by Graham Greene 

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark

• Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike 

• Ragtime (1975) E.L. Doctorow

• The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis

• Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett

• Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates 

• The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles

• Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut 

• Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson

• The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth

• The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner 

• The Sportswriter (1986) by Richard Ford

• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1964) by John Le Carre 

• The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway

• Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston

• Things Fall Apart (1959) by Chinua Achebe 

• To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee (07/08/12 ; 4:55 P.M.)

• To The Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf

• Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller

• Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick

• Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch

• Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcom Lowry 

• Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 

• White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo

• White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith

• Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Jean Rhys