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The All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels was a list published by TIME magazine in 2005 of the greatest ever English-language pieces of literature published since TIME was founded in 1923. It was picked by TIME critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo. The full list comprises:
  • Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart (1959)
  • James Agee - A Death in the Family (1958)
  • Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (1954)
  • Martin Amis - Money (1984)
  • Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin (2000)
  • James Baldwin - Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953)
  • John Barth - The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
  • Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Herzog (1964)
  • Judy Blume - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970)
  • Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart (1938)
  • Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky (1949)
  • Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (1963)
  • William Burroughs - Naked Lunch (1959)
  • A.S. Byatt - Possession (1990)
  • Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
  • Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep (1939)
  • John Cheever - Falconer (1977)
  • Don DeLillo - White Noise (1985)
  • Philip K. Dick - Ubik (1969)
  • James Dickey - Deliverance (1970)
  • Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays (1970)
  • E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime (1975)
  • Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy (1925)
  • Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (1952)
  • William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury (1929), Light in August (1932)
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (1925)
  • Richard Ford - The Sportswriter (1986)
  • E.M. Forster - A Passage to India (1924)
  • John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
  • Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections (2001)
  • William Gaddis - The Recognitions (1955)
  • William Gibson - Neuromancer (1984)
  • William Golding - Lord of the Flies (1955)
  • Robert Graves - I, Claudius (1934)
  • Henry Green - Loving (1945)
  • Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory (1939), The Heart of the Matter (1948)
  • Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest (1929)
  • Joseph Heller - Catch-22 (1961)
  • Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  • Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
  • Christopher Isherwood - The Berlin Stories (1946)
  • Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go (2005)
  • Jack Kerouac - On the Road (1957)
  • Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
  • John le Carre - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964)
  • Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird (1965)
  • Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
  • Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook (1962)
  • C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
  • Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano (1947)
  • Bernard Malamud - The Assistant (1957)
  • Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian (1986)
  • Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
  • Ian McEwan - Atonement (2002)
  • Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer (1934)
  • Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind (1936)
  • Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen (1986)
  • Toni Morrison - Beloved (1987)
  • Iris Murdoch - Under the Net (1954)
  • Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (1955), Pale Fire (1962)
  • V.S. Naipaul - A House for Mr. Biswas (1962)
  • Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds (1938)
  • John O'Hara - Appointment in Samarra (1934)
  • George Orwell - Animal Farm (1946), 1984 (1949)
  • Walker Percy - The Moviegoer (1961)
  • Anthony Powell - A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)
  • Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
  • Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
  • Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping (1981)
  • Henry Roth - Call It Sleep (1935)
  • Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint (1969), American Pastoral (1997)
  • Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children (1981)
  • J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  • Zadie Smith - White Teeth (2000)
  • Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
  • Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
  • John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
  • Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash (1992)
  • Robert Stone - Dog Soldiers (1974)
  • William Styron - The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
  • J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (1954)
  • John Updike - Rabbit, Run (1960)
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
  • David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest (1996)
  • Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men (1946)
  • Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust (1934), Brideshead Revisited (1946)
  • Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust (1939)
  • Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
  • Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927
  • Richard Wright - Native Son (1940)
  • Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (1961)


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