Time Magazine: All Time 100 Novels by Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo

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Time Magazine literary critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo have named their picks for the 100 best novels released since 1923 the year of the magazine’s founding

1. The Adventures Of Augie March by Saul Bellow
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   


2. All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   


3. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   


4. An American Tragedy by Thomas P. Riggio
   
   
   (literature and fiction, classics, mystery and thrillers)
   
   


5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
   
   
   (literature and fiction, classics)
   
   


6. Appointment In Samarra by John O'Hara
   
   
   (girl fiction, literature and fiction)
   
   


7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
   
   
   (children books (Ages 9-12), children books, literature and fiction, teens)
   
   


8. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
   
   
   (literature and fiction, classics)
   
   


9. At Swim-two-birds by Flann O'Brien
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   


10. Atonement by Ian McEwan
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


11. Beloved by Toni Morrison
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


12. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


13. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
    
    
    (classics, literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers)
    
    


14. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


15. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


16. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


17. The Bridge Of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


18. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


19. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


20. The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


21. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics, sci-fi)
    
    


22. The Confessions Of Nat Turner by William Styron
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


23. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


24. The Crying Of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


25. A Dance To The Music Of Time by Anthony Powell
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


26. The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


27. Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


28. A Death In The Family by Sandy Tovray Greenberg
    
    
    (self-help, health, religion and spirituality)
    
    


29. The Death Of The Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


30. Deliverance by James Dickey
    
    
    (literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers)
    
    


31. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


32. Falconer by John Cheever
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


33. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


34. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
    
    
    (literature and fiction, girl fiction, mystery and thrillers)
    
    


35. Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


36. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


37. The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


38. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


39. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


40. A Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


41. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


42. The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


43. Herzog by Saul Bellow
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


44. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


45. A House For Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


46. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


47. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


48. Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
    
    
    (classics, literature and fiction, sci-fi)
    
    


49. Light In August by William Faulkner
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


50. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe by Pauline Baynes
    
    
    (children books (Ages 9-12), children books, religion and spirituality)
    
    


51. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


52. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


53. The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
    
    
    (classics, literature and fiction, fantasy)
    
    


54. Loving by Henry Green
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


55. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


56. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
    
    
    (classics, literature and fiction)
    
    


57. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


58. Money by Martin Amis
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


59. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


60. Mrs. Dalloway By Virginia Woolf
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


61. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics, sci-fi)
    
    


62. Native Son by Richard Wright
    
    
    (children books, literature and fiction, teens)
    
    


63. Neuromancer by William Gibson
    
    
    (literature and fiction, sci-fi)
    
    


64. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


65. 1984 by George Orwell
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics, sci-fi)
    
    


66. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


67. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics, mystery and thrillers)
    
    


68. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


69. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


70. A Passage To India by E.M. Forster
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


71. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
    
    
    (literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers)
    
    


72. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


73. Possession by A.S. Byatt
    
    
    (literature and fiction, romance)
    
    


74. The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


75. The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


76. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


77. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


78. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


79. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
    
    
    (literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers)
    
    


80. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
    
    
    (literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers)
    
    


81. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


82. Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics, sci-fi)
    
    


83. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
    
    
    (sci-fi)
    
    


84. The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


85. The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


86. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


87. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John le Carre
    
    
    (mystery and thrillers)
    
    


88. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    


89. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


90. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


91. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    
    
    (literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers)
    
    


92. To The Lighthouse by Eudora Welty (Introduction)
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


93. Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


94. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
    
    
    (literature and fiction, fantasy, sci-fi)
    
    


95. Under The Net by Iris Murdoch
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


96. Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


97. Watchmen by Alan Moore
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


98. White Noise by Don DeLillo
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    


99. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
    
    
    (literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers)
    
    


100. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
     
     
     (classics, literature and fiction)
     
     


Source:
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