Paritosh Uttam: Indian Writing in English: Time Top 100

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 Dave Gibbons
98	White Noise	Don DeLillo
99	White Teeth	Zadie Smith
100	Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys