The Complete List | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels Index | Complete List | Top Rated | Graphic Novels | Talkback Try TIME for $1.99! Text Size: E-mail this to a friend The Complete List In Alphabetical Order L - N PRINT Light in August A - B William Faulkner The Adventures of Augie March Read the Original Review Saul Bellow The Lion, The Witch and the All the King's Men Wardrobe Robert Penn Warren C.S. Lewis Read the Original Review About the List Lolita » Managing Editor James Kelly talks about the American Pastoral Vladimir Nabokov Philip Roth list and shares his John Le Carre favorite Read the Original Review Read the Original Review (which didn't make Lord of the Flies the cut). An American Tragedy William Golding Theodore Dreiser » Richard Lacayo lays bare the process (and The Lord of the Rings the pain) behind stacking up Animal Farm J.R.R. Tolkien George Orwell 100 novels. Read the Original Review Read the Original Review Loving Reader's Choice Appointment in Samarra Henry Green 1: John O'Hara Read the Original Review 2: Lolita Read the Original Review Lucky Jim 3: A Passage to India Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Kingsley Amis 4: A Death in the Family Judy Blume Read the Original Review 5: Ubik The Assistant The Man Who Loved Children Bernard Malamud See the full list Christina Stead Read the Original Review Read the Original Review At Swim-Two-Birds Midnight's Children Flann O'Brien http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html (1 of 6)7/3/2008 12:37:51 PM The Complete List | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels Best Graphic Novels Salman Rushdie TIME's Andrew Arnold Atonement Ian McEwan Money picks Watchmen and Martin Amis Read the Original Review nine other comix Read the Original Review masterpieces Beloved The Moviegoer Toni Morrison Walker Percy Archive Trivia Read the Original Review Read the Original Review Who was the first author to The Berlin Stories appear on a TIME cover? Christopher Isherwood Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Get the answer and much Read the Original Review Naked Lunch more on our trivia page The Big Sleep William Burroughs Raymond Chandler Talk Back Read the Original Review Read the Original Review Why isn't the Harry Potter series on Native Son there!!?? It definitely should be on there!! The Blind Assassin Richard Wright Margaret Atwood —Robin; Seattle, Wash. Read the Original Review Read the Original Review Where is Ayn Rand and John Irving? I Neuromancer Blood Meridian William Gibson checked your list twice, I can't believe you did Cormac McCarthy not list either author. Never Let Me Go Brideshead Revisited Kazuo Ishiguro —Susan Sayfan; Longwood, Fla. Evelyn Waugh Read the Original Review Read the Original Review Send us your thoughts » 1984 The Bridge of San Luis Rey George Orwell From the TIME Archive Thornton Wilder Ernest Hemingway Read the Original Review "Make no mistake, Ernest Hemingway is Read the Original Review somebody; a new, honest, un-'literary' O - R transcriber of life...." C - D Writer 1/18/26 On the Road Call It Sleep More Writers in TIME Jack Kerouac Henry Roth Read the Original Review Search the Archive from 1923 - Present Read the Original Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Catch-22 Ken Kesey http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html (2 of 6)7/3/2008 12:37:51 PM The Complete List | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels More From TIME.com Joseph Heller Read the Original Review All-TIME 100 Movies » Read the Original Review The Painted Bird TIME critics Richard The Catcher in the Rye Jerzy Kosinski Corliss and Richard J.D. 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Text Size: E-mail this to a friend Read the complete list | How we picked the list | Tell us what you think The Adventures of Augie The Man Who Loved Children (1940) March (1953) Christina Stead Saul Bellow Midnight's Children (1981) (1946) All the King's Men Salman Rushdie About the List Robert Penn Warren Money (1984) » Managing Editor James Kelly talks about the (1997) American Pastoral Martin Amis Philip Roth list and shares his John Le Carre favorite The Moviegoer (1961) (1925) An American Tragedy Walker Percy (which didn't make Theodore Dreiser Mrs. Dalloway (1925) the cut). (1946) Animal Farm Virginia Woolf George Orwell » Richard Lacayo lays bare the process (and Naked Lunch (1959) Appointment in Samarra (1934) the pain) behind stacking up William Burroughs John O'Hara Native Son (1940) 100 novels. Are You There God? It's Me, Richard Wright Margaret (1970) Reader's Choice Judy Blume Neuromancer (1984) William Gibson 1: The Assistant (1957) Bernard Malamud Never Let Me Go (2005) 2: Lolita Kazuo Ishiguro At Swim-Two-Birds (1938) 3: A Passage to India Flann O'Brien 1984 (1948) George Orwell 4: A Death in the Family Atonement (2002) Ian McEwan On the Road (1957) 5: Ubik Jack Kerouac Beloved (1987) See the full list Toni Morrison One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) Ken Kesey The Berlin Stories (1946) Christopher Isherwood The Painted Bird (1965) Jerzy Kosinski The Big Sleep (1939) http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/ (1 of 3)7/3/2008 12:37:56 PM ALL-TIME 100 Novels - TIME Best Graphic Novels Raymond Chandler Pale Fire (1962) TIME's Andrew Arnold Vladimir Nabokov The Blind Assassin (2000) A Passage to India (1924) picks Watchmen and Margaret Atwood E.M.