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The Great English-Language Novels - Page 2

This list is inspired by The Atlantic's recent list of their Great American Novels. For this list, I'm not abiding by The Atlantic's strict rule that all books are published within the last 100 years (imagine the classics you'd have to leave out!) and thus have no time limit on their publication. I will make another list that does comply with that rule. So, I have 136 novels in chronological order, just like The Atlantic's list, but the one rule I imposed on myself, unlike The Atlantic, is to allow an author only one entry on the list. I'm sure many will disagree with some of my choices, but that's a great thing about reading. Enjoy!
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The Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham)
The Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham)
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Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
43
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
44
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
45
1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
46
A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute)
A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute)
47
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
48
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
49
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
50
In the Castle of My Skin (George Lamming)
In the Castle of My Skin (George Lamming)
51
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
52
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
53
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
54
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
55
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
56
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
57
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
58
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter Miller)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter Miller)
59
Rabbit Angstrom Novels (John Updike)
Rabbit Angstrom Novels (John Updike)
60
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
61
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
62
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
63
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
64
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
65
The Country Girls (Edna O'Brien)
The Country Girls (Edna O'Brien)
66
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
67
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Magus (John Fowles)
68
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
69
A Grain of Wheat (Ngugi Wa Thiong'o)
A Grain of Wheat (Ngugi Wa Thiong'o)
70
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
71
Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
72
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
73
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
74
Crash (J.G. Ballard)
Crash (J.G. Ballard)
75
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
76
The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
77
The Shining (Stephen King)
The Shining (Stephen King)
78
A Bend in the River (V. S. Naipaul)
A Bend in the River (V. S. Naipaul)
79
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
80
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
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