All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels
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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: A Romance (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)