TIME's list of ALL TIME 100 Novels

100 best English language novels since 1923 - As picked by TIME

20/100

• 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

  • A Handful of Dust
  • The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
  • The Heart of the Matter
  • Herzog
  • Housekeeping
  • A House for Mr. Biswas
  • I, Claudius
  • Infinite Jest
  • Invisible Man

• 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
• 1984
• Never Let Me Go

• 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

  • Ubik
  • Under the Net
  • Under the Volcano
  • Watchmen
  • White Noise
  • White Teeth
  • Wide Sargasso Sea