Time magazine's "All-TIME" 100 best novels

The All-TIME 100 greatest Novels is a compilation by Time magazine featuring their choices for the 100 best novels in English published between March 3, 1923 (when the first issue of Time was published) and early 2005 (when the list was prepared). It was compiled by author Lev Grossman and Time critic Richard Lacayo. Ulysses by James Joyce was published in 1922, and is therefore excluded.

Novels by year of publication

1920s

• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (1924)
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1927)
• Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)

1930s

• Light in August by William Faulkner (1932)
• Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara (1934)
• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (1934)
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves (1934)
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
• Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (1935)
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
• At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1938)
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
• The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1939)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (1939)

1940s

• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)
• The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead (1940)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)
• Loving by Henry Green (1945)
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (1946)
• The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood (1946)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1946)
• Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
• The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (1948)
• 1984 by George Orwell (1948)
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (1949)

1950s

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1950)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
• A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell (1951)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (1954)
• Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (1954)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1955)
• The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955)
• The Assistant by Bernard Malamud (1957)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
• A Death in the Family by James Agee (1958)
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (1958)
• [...] Lunch by William Burroughs (1959)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1959)

1960s

• Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1960)
• The Sot-[...] Factor by John Barth (1960)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961)
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961)
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
• A House For Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul (1962)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1963)
• Herzog by Saul Bellow (1964)
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré (1964)
• The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski (1965)
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966)
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1967)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (1969)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
• Ubik by Philip K. [...] (1969)

1970s

• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (1970)
• Deliverance by James Dickey (1970)
• Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion (1970)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
• Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (1974)
• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (1975)
• Falconer by John Cheever (1977)

1980s

• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981)
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
• Money by Martin Amis (1984)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
• White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985)
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1986)
• The Sportswriter by Richard Ford (1986)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

1990s

• Possession by A. S. Byatt (1990)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)

2000s

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (2002)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)