The Time Top 100 is the list of top 100 novels in English published since 1923, as selected by Time magazine (in alphabetical order).
Reading score: 67/100
† Yet to read.
No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
1 | The Adventures of Augie March |
Saul Bellow |
2 | All the King’s Men |
Robert Penn Warren |
3 | American Pastoral † |
Philip Roth |
4 | An American Tragedy |
Theodore Dreiser |
5 | Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
6 | Appointment in Samarra |
John O’Hara |
7 | Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret |
Judy Blume |
8 | The Assistant † |
Bernard Malamud |
9 | At Swim-Two-Birds |
Flann O’Brien |
10 | Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
11 | Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
12 | The Berlin Stories † |
Christopher Isherwood |
13 | The Big Sleep † |
Raymond Chandler |
14 | The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood |
15 | Blood Meridian † |
Cormac McCarthy |
16 | Brideshead Revisited |
Evelyn Waugh |
17 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Thornton Wilder |
18 | Call It Sleep † |
Henry Roth |
19 | Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
20 | The Catcher in the Rye |
J. D. Salinger |
21 | A Clockwork Orange |
Anthony Burgess |
22 | The Confessions of Nat Turner |
William Styron |
23 | The Corrections † |
Jonathan Franzen |
24 | The Crying of Lot 49 † |
Thomas Pynchon |
25 | A Dance to the Music of Time |
Anthony Powell |
26 | The Day of the Locust |
Nathanael West |
27 | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Willa Cather |
28 | A Death in the Family † |
James Agee |
29 | The Death of the Heart |
Elizabeth Bowen |
30 | Deliverance |
James Dickey |
31 | Dog Soldiers † |
Robert Stone |
32 | Falconer † |
John Cheever |
33 | The French Lieutenant’s Woman |
John Fowles |
34 | The Golden Notebook † |
Doris Lessing |
35 | Go Tell it on the Mountain |
James Baldwin |
36 | Gone With the Wind |
Margaret Mitchell |
37 | The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
38 | Gravity’s Rainbow |
Thomas Pynchon |
39 | The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
40 | A Handful of Dust |
Evelyn Waugh |
41 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
Carson McCullers |
42 | The Heart of the Matter |
Graham Greene |
43 | Herzog † |
Saul Bellow |
44 | Housekeeping † |
Marilynne Robinson |
45 | A House for Mr. Biswas |
V. S. Naipaul |
46 | I, Claudius |
Robert Graves |
47 | Infinite Jest † |
David Foster Wallace |
48 | Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
49 | Light in August |
William Faulkner |
50 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe † |
C.S. Lewis |
51 | Lolita |
Vladimir Nabokov |
52 | Lord of the Flies |
William Golding |
53 | The Lord of the Rings † |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
54 | Loving † |
Henry Green |
55 | Lucky Jim † |
Kingsley Amis |
56 | The Man Who Loved Children † |
Christina Stead |
57 | Midnight’s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
58 | Money † |
Martin Amis |
59 | The Moviegoer |
Walker Percy |
60 | Mrs. Dalloway † |
Virginia Woolf |
61 | Naked Lunch |
William Burroughs |
62 | Native Son |
Richard Wright |
63 | Neuromancer † |
William Gibson |
64 | Never Let Me Go † |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
65 | 1984 |
George Orwell |
66 | On the Road |
Jack Kerouac |
67 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
Ken Kesey |
68 | The Painted Bird |
Jerzy Kosinski |
69 | Pale Fire |
Vladimir Nabokov |
70 | A Passage to India |
E. M. Forster |
71 | Play It As It Lays † |
Joan Didion |
72 | Portnoy’s Complaint |
Philip Roth |
73 | Possession |
A.S. Byatt |
74 | The Power and the Glory † |
Graham Greene |
75 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Muriel Spark |
76 | Rabbit, Run |
John Updike |
77 | Ragtime |
E.L. Doctorow |
78 | The Recognitions † |
William Gaddis |
79 | Red Harvest |
Dashiell Hammett |
80 | Revolutionary Road † |
Richard Yates |
81 | The Sheltering Sky |
Paul Bowles |
82 | Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
83 | Snow Crash † |
Neal Stephenson |
84 | The Sot-Weed Factor † |
John Barth |
85 | The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner |
86 | The Sportswriter † |
Richard Ford |
87 | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
John le Carre |
88 | The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
89 | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston |
90 | Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
91 | To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
92 | To the Lighthouse |
Virginia Woolf |
93 | Tropic of Cancer |
Henry Miller |
94 | Ubik † |
Philip K. Dick |
95 | Under the Net |
Iris Murdoch |
96 | Under the Volcano |
Malcolm Lowry |
97 | Watchmen † |
Alan Moore |
98 | White Noise |
Don DeLillo |
99 | White Teeth |
Zadie Smith |
100 | Wide Sargasso Sea |
Jean Rhys |