TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005
TIME'S List of the 100 Best Novels, is an unranked list of the 100 best novels—and 10 best graphic novels—published in the English language between 1923 and 2005. The list was compiled by Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo. __TOC__
Novels
Title |
Date |
Author |
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1953 |
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All the King's Men |
1946 |
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American Pastoral |
1997 |
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An American Tragedy |
1925 |
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Animal Farm |
1946 |
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Appointment in Samarra |
1934 |
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. |
1970 |
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1957 |
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At Swim-Two-Birds |
1938 |
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Atonement |
2002 |
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Beloved |
1987 |
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1946 |
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1939 |
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2000 |
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Blood Meridian |
1986 |
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Brideshead Revisited |
1946 |
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1927 |
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Call It Sleep |
1935 |
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Catch-22 |
1961 |
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1951 |
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1963 |
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1967 |
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2001 |
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1966 |
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1951 |
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1939 |
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Death Comes for the Archbishop |
1927 |
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1958 |
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1958 |
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Deliverance |
1970 |
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Dog Soldiers |
1974 |
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Falconer |
1977 |
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1969 |
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1962 |
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Go Tell it on the Mountain |
1953 |
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Gone With the Wind |
1936 |
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1939 |
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Gravity's Rainbow |
1973 |
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1925 |
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1934 |
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1940 |
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1948 |
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Herzog |
1964 |
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Housekeeping |
1981 |
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1962 |
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I, Claudius |
1934 |
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Infinite Jest |
1996 |
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Invisible Man |
1952 |
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Light in August |
1932 |
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1950 |
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Lolita |
1955 |
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Lord of the Flies |
1955 |
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1954 |
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Loving |
1945 |
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Lucky Jim |
1954 |
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1940 |
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Midnight's Children |
1981 |
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Money |
1984 |
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1961 |
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Mrs. Dalloway |
1925 |
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[...] Lunch |
1959 |
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Native Son |
1940 |
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Neuromancer |
1984 |
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Never Let Me Go |
2005 |
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1984 |
1948 |
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On the Road |
1957 |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1962 |
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1965 |
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Pale Fire |
1962 |
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1924 |
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Play It as It Lays |
1970 |
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Portnoy's Complaint |
1969 |
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Possession |
1990 |
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1939 |
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1961 |
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Rabbit, Run |
1960 |
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Ragtime |
1975 |
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1955 |
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Red Harvest |
1929 |
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Revolutionary Road |
1961 |
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1949 |
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Slaughterhouse-Five |
1969 |
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Snow Crash |
1992 |
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1960 |
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1929 |
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1986 |
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1964 |
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1926 |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God |
1937 |
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Things Fall Apart |
1959 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
1960 |
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To the Lighthouse |
1927 |
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Tropic of Cancer |
1934 |
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Ubik |
1969 |
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Under the Net |
1954 |
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Under the Volcano |
1947 |
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Watchmen |
1986 |
& Dave Gibbons |
White Noise |
1985 |
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White Teeth |
2000 |
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Wide Sargasso Sea |
1966 |
Graphic novels
Title |
Date |
Author |
|---|---|---|
Berlin: City of Stones |
2000 |
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Blankets |
2003 |
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Bone |
2004 |
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2002 |
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1986 |
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David Boring |
2000 |
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Ed the Happy Clown |
1989 |
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Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth |
2000 |
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Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories |
2003 |
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Watchmen |
1986 |
& Dave Gibbons |