TIME All-TIME 100 Novels

• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
• Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
• 1984 (1949) by George Orwell
• Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
• Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
• Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
• The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
• On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
• Invisible Man (1953) by Ralph Ellison
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) by Harper Lee
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
• Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
• Beloved (1988) by Toni Morrison
• The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
• Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
• Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
• White Teeth (2002) by Zadie Smith
• American Pastoral (1998) by Philip Roth
• The Road (2007) by Cormac McCarthy
• Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
• A Death in the Family (1958) by James Agee
• The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
• Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
• A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) by V.S. Naipaul
• I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
• The Moviegoer (1962) by Walker Percy
• White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
• Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
• Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
• The Adventures of Augie March (1954) by Saul Bellow
• The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968) by William Styron
• The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
• Dog Soldiers (1975) by Robert Stone
• The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
• Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
• Gravity's Rainbow (1974) by Thomas Pynchon
• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
• Herzog (1965) by Saul Bellow
• Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
• Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
• The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
• The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
• The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
• To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
• Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
• A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh
• All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
• An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
• Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O'Hara
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume
• The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud
• At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien
• The Berlin Stories (1945) by Christopher Isherwood
• The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thornton Wilder
• Call It Sleep (1934) by Henry Roth
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
• A Dance to the Music of Time (1951) by Anthony Powell
• The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
• The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen
• Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey
• Falconer (1977) by John Cheever
• The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene
• Housekeeping (1980) by Marilynne Robinson
• Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis
• Loving (1945) by Henry Green
• Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
• The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead
• Money: A Suicide Note (1984) by Martin Amis
• Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
• Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
• The Painted Bird (1965) by Jerzy Kosinski
• Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
• A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
• Play It as It Lays (1970) by Joan Didion
• Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth
• The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
• Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
• Ragtime (1975) by E.L. Doctorow
• The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
• Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
• Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates
• The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles
• Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
• The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) by John le Carré
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
• Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
• Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
• Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick
• Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch
• Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore
• Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
• Henderson the Rain King (1959) by Saul Bellow
• The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro