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This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.

List

Name Author Year Ref.
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953
All The King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946
Animal Farm George Orwell 1945
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara 1934
Atonement Ian McEwan 2001
Beloved Toni Morrison 1987
A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932
Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 1951
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1963
A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 1951-75
The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939
Deliverance James Dickey 1970
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 1962
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1915
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899
Light in August William Faulkner 1932
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955
Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien 1954
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930
The Moviegoer Walker Percy 1961
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915
On The Road Jack Kerouac 1957
A Passage to India E.M. Forster 1924
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961
Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938
Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller 1934
Ulysses James Joyce 1922
Under the Net Iris Murdoch 1954
Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966

Publications

See also

References

  1. ^ Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (October 16, 2005). "ALL-TIME 100 Novels". Time. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  2. ^ "100 Best Novels". The Modern Library. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  3. ^ "The 100 best novels written in English: the full list". The Guardian. August 17, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  4. ^ Meyer, Dick (May 7, 2009). "100 Years, 100 Novels, One List". NPR.
  5. ^ "100 novels everyone should read". Telegraph. January 16, 2009. Archived from the original on January 21, 2009. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  6. ^ Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (1999)
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