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All-TIME 100 Best Novels 1923-2005 (TIME Magazine)

Welcome to the massive, anguished, exalted undertaking that is the ALL TIME 100 books list. The parameters: English language novels published anywhere in the world since 1923, the year that TIME Magazine began, which, before you ask, means that Ulysses (1922) doesn’t make the cut.
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The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
1
Saul Bellow
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men
2
Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
American Pastoral
3
Philip Roth
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
4
Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
5
George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra (John O'Hara)
Appointment in Samarra
6
John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (Judy Blume)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
7
Judy Blume
The Assistant
The Assistant
8
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Birds
9
Flann O'Brien
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
10
Ian McEwan
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
11
The Berlin Stories
The Berlin Stories
12
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Big Sleep
13
Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
The Blind Assassin
14
Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
15
Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
16
Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
17
Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
Call It Sleep
18
Henry Roth
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
19
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
20
J.D. Salinger
The Confessions of Nat Turner (William Styron)
The Confessions of Nat Turner
21
William Styron
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
22
Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
23
Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time (Series)
A Dance to the Music of Time (Series)
24
The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
The Day of the Locust
25
Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
26
Willa Cather
A Death in the Family (James Agee)
A Death in the Family
27
James Agee
The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen)
The Death of the Heart
28
Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance (James Dickey)
Deliverance
29
James Dickey
Dog Soldiers
Dog Soldiers
30
Falconer
Falconer
31
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman
32
John Fowles
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook
33
Doris Lessing
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
34
James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
35
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
36
John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
37
Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
38
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh)
A Handful of Dust
39
Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
40
Carson McCullers
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