Time Magazine’s list of the top 100 novels of all time (in alphabetical order, not ranked, English-language, 1923-present). As always, items in bold are the ones I’ve read.

* The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow * All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren * American Pastoral, Philip Roth * An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser * Animal Farm, George Orwell * Appointment in Samarra, John O’Hara * Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume * The Assistant, Bernard Malamud * At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien * Atonement, Ian McEwan * Beloved, Toni Morrison * The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood * The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler * The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood * Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy * Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh * The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder * Call It Sleep, Henry Roth * Catch-22, Joseph Heller * The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger * A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess * The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron * The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen * The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon * A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell * The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West * Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather * A Death in the Family, James Agee * The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen * Deliverance, James Dickey * Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone * Falconer, John Cheever * The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles * The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing * Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin * Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell * The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck * Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon * The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald * A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh * The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers * The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene * Herzog, Saul Bellow * Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson * A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul * I, Claudius, Robert Graves * Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace * Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison * Light in August, William Faulkner * The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis * Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov * Lord of the Flies, William Golding * The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien * Loving, Henry Green * Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis * The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead * Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie * Money, Martin Amis * The Moviegoer, Walker Percy * Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf * Naked Lunch, William Burroughs * Native Son, Richard Wright * Neuromancer, William Gibson * Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro * 1984, George Orwell * On the Road, Jack Kerouac * One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey * The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski * Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov * A Passage to India, E.M. Forster * Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion * Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth * Possession, A.S. Byatt * The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene * The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark * Rabbit, Run, John Updike * Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow * The Recognitions, William Gaddis * Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett * Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates * The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles * Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut * Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson * The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth * The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner * The Sportswriter, Richard Ford * The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John le Carre * The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway * Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston * Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe * To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee * To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf * Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller * Ubik, Philip K. Dick * Under the Net, Iris Murdoch * Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry * Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons * White Noise, Don DeLillo * White Teeth, Zadie Smith * Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

(via Terrance)

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