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	About the List » Managing Editor James Kelly talks about the list and shares his John Le Carre favorite (which didn't make the cut). » Richard Lacayo lays bare the process (and the pain) behind stacking up 100 novels.   Reader's Choice 1:   2:  Lolita 3:  A Passage to India 4:  A Death in the Family 5:  Ubik     See the full list   Best Graphic Novels TIME's Andrew Arnold picks Watchmen and nine other comix masterpieces   Archive Trivia Who was the first author to appear on a TIME cover? Get the answer and much more on our trivia page   Talk Back Why isn't the Harry Potter series on there!!?? It definitely should be on there!! —Robin; Seattle, Wash. Where is Ayn Rand and John Irving? I checked your list twice, I can't believe you did not list either author. —Susan Sayfan; Longwood, Fla. Send us your thoughts »   From the TIME Archive Ernest Hemingway "Make no mistake, Ernest Hemingway is somebody; a new, honest, un-'literary' transcriber of life...." Writer 1/18/26 More Writers in TIME Search the Archive from 1923 - Present   More From TIME.com All-TIME 100 Movies » TIME critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel offer their list of 100 great films 50 Best Websites » The Top 10 Everything of 2008 »		The Complete List In Alphabetical Order PRINT A - B The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren Read the Original Review American Pastoral Philip Roth Read the Original Review An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser Animal Farm George Orwell Read the Original Review Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara Read the Original Review Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume The Assistant Bernard Malamud Read the Original Review At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien Atonement Ian McEwan Read the Original Review Beloved Toni Morrison Read the Original Review The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood Read the Original Review The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Read the Original Review The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Read the Original Review Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Read the Original Review The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder Read the Original Review C - D Call It Sleep Henry Roth Read the Original Review Catch-22 Joseph Heller Read the Original Review The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Read the Original Review A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Read the Original Review The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron Read the Original Review The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Read the Original Review The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon Read the Original Review A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell Read the Original Review The Day of the Locust Nathanael West Read the Original Review Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather A Death in the Family James Agee The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen Read the Original Review Deliverance James Dickey Read the Original Review Dog Soldiers Robert Stone Read the Original Review F - G Falconer John Cheever Read the Original Review The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles Read the Original Review The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Read the Original Review Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin Read the Original Review Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell Read the Original Review The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Read the Original Review Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon Read the Original Review The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Read the Original Review H - I A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh Read the Original Review The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Read the Original Review The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene Herzog Saul Bellow Read the Original Review Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson Read the Original Review A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul Read the Original Review I, Claudius Robert Graves Read the Original Review Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Read the Original Review Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Read the Original Review		L - N Light in August William Faulkner Read the Original Review The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Read the Original Review Lord of the Flies William Golding The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Read the Original Review Loving Henry Green Read the Original Review Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis Read the Original Review The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead Read the Original Review Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie Money Martin Amis Read the Original Review The Moviegoer Walker Percy Read the Original Review Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Naked Lunch William Burroughs Read the Original Review Native Son Richard Wright Read the Original Review Neuromancer William Gibson Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Read the Original Review 1984 George Orwell Read the Original Review O - R On the Road Jack Kerouac Read the Original Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey Read the Original Review The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov Read the Original Review A Passage to India E.M. Forster Play It As It Lays Joan Didion Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth Read the Original Review Possession A.S. Byatt Read the Original Review The Power and the Glory Graham Greene The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Read the Original Review Rabbit, Run John Updike Read the Original Review Ragtime E.L. Doctorow Read the Original Review The Recognitions William Gaddis Read the Original Review Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Revolutionary Road Richard Yates S - T The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles Read the Original Review Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Read the Original Review Snow Crash Neal Stephenson The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner The Sportswriter Richard Ford Read the Original Review The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carre Read the Original Review The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Read the Original Review Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Read the Original Review Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Read the Original Review To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Read the Original Review Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Read the Original Review U - W Ubik Philip K. Dick Under the Net Iris Murdoch Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry Read the Original Review Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons White Noise Don DeLillo Read the Original Review White Teeth Zadie Smith Read the Original Review Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
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