I have marked those that I have read. I have read only 30 out of this 100. How many have you read?
Time Magazines 100 best English Language Novel from 1923 to the present
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 (Read)
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 (Read)
Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin (Read)
Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited (Read)
Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
C - D
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
Catch-22 (Read)
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (Read)
J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange (Read)
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
F - G
Falconer
John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman (Read)
John Fowles
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind (Read)
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath (Read)
John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby (Read)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
H - I
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 (Read)
V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius (Read)
Robert Graves
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
L - N
Light in August
William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Read)
C.S. Lewis
Lolita (Read)
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies (Read)
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings (Read)
J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving
Henry Green
Lucky Jim (Read)
Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Midnight's Children (Read)
Salman Rushdie
Money
Martin Amis
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway (Read)
Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
Native Son
Richard Wright
Neuromancer (Read)
William Gibson
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 (Read)
George Orwell
O - R
On the Road (Read)
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Read)
Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India (Read)
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 (Read)
E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
S - T
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five (Read)
Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
The Sound and the Fury (Read)
William Faulkner
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Read)
John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises (Read)
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
ummm....only 8 of them....Sigh....
ReplyDeleteHeh, 9.
ReplyDeleteHaven't even heard of some of the authors.
And any list without Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Zindell, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, James Joyce or any of the other many fantastic authors out there is just totally incomplete.