The Time Top 100 is the list of top 100 novels in English published since 1923, as selected by Time magazine (in alphabetical order).
Reading score: 98/100
† Yet to read.
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| 2 | All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| 3 | American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| 4 | An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| 5 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 6 | Appointment in Samarra | John O’Hara |
| 7 | Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret | Judy Blume |
| 8 | The Assistant | Bernard Malamud |
| 9 | At Swim-Two-Birds | Flann O’Brien |
| 10 | Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| 11 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| 12 | The Berlin Stories | Christopher Isherwood |
| 13 | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler |
| 14 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| 15 | Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy |
| 16 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| 17 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| 18 | Call It Sleep | Henry Roth |
| 19 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| 20 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| 21 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| 22 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron |
| 23 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen |
| 24 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon |
| 25 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell |
| 26 | The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West |
| 27 | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| 28 | A Death in the Family | James Agee |
| 29 | The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen |
| 30 | Deliverance | James Dickey |
| 31 | Dog Soldiers | Robert Stone |
| 32 | Falconer | John Cheever |
| 33 | The French Lieutenant’s Woman | John Fowles |
| 34 | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing |
| 35 | Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| 36 | Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 37 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 38 | Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| 39 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 40 | A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh |
| 41 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| 42 | The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene |
| 43 | Herzog | Saul Bellow |
| 44 | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson |
| 45 | A House for Mr. Biswas | V. S. Naipaul |
| 46 | I, Claudius | Robert Graves |
| 47 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace |
| 48 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| 49 | Light in August | William Faulkner |
| 50 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
| 51 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 52 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| 53 | The Lord of the Rings † | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 54 | Loving | Henry Green |
| 55 | Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis |
| 56 | The Man Who Loved Children | Christina Stead |
| 57 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| 58 | Money | Martin Amis |
| 59 | The Moviegoer | Walker Percy |
| 60 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| 61 | Naked Lunch | William Burroughs |
| 62 | Native Son | Richard Wright |
| 63 | Neuromancer | William Gibson |
| 64 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 65 | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 66 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| 67 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| 68 | The Painted Bird | Jerzy Kosinski |
| 69 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 70 | A Passage to India | E. M. Forster |
| 71 | Play It As It Lays | Joan Didion |
| 72 | Portnoy’s Complaint | Philip Roth |
| 73 | Possession | A.S. Byatt |
| 74 | The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene |
| 75 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark |
| 76 | Rabbit, Run | John Updike |
| 77 | Ragtime | E.L. Doctorow |
| 78 | The Recognitions | William Gaddis |
| 79 | Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett |
| 80 | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates |
| 81 | The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles |
| 82 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 83 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
| 84 | The Sot-Weed Factor | John Barth |
| 85 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| 86 | The Sportswriter | Richard Ford |
| 87 | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | John le Carre |
| 88 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| 89 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| 90 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| 91 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 92 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| 93 | Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
| 94 | Ubik | Philip K. Dick |
| 95 | Under the Net | Iris Murdoch |
| 96 | Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry |
| 97 | Watchmen † | Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons |
| 98 | White Noise | Don DeLillo |
| 99 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
| 100 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |