Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME.

• The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
• All The King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
• American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
• An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell)
• Appointment in Samarra (John O'Hara)
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (Judy Blume)
• The Assistant (Bernard Malamud)
• At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
• Atonement (Ian McEwan)
• Beloved (Toni Morrison)
• The Berlin Stories (Christopher Isherwood)
• The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
• The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
• Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
• Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
• Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
• The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
• The Confessions of Nat Turner (William Styron)
• The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
• The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
• A Dance to the Music of Time (Anthony Powell)
• The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
• A Death in the Family (James Agee)
• The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Deliverance (James Dickey)
• Dog Soldiers (Robert Stone)
• Falconer (John Cheever)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
• The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
• Go Tell it on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
• Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
• The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
• The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh)
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
• The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
• Herzog (Saul Bellow)
• Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
• A House for Mr. Biswas (V. S. Naipaul)
• I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
• Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
• Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
• Light in August (William Faulkner)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
• Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
• Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
• The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
• Loving (Henry Green)
• The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
• Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
• The Man Who Loved Children (Christina Stead)
• Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
• Money (Martin Amis)
• The Naked Lunch (William Burroughs)
• Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
• Native Son (Richard Wright)
• Neuromancer (William Gibson)
• Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
• 1984 (George Orwell)
• On The Road (Jack Kerouac)
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
• The Painted Bird (Jerzy Kosinkski)
• Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
• A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
• Play It As It Lays (Joan Didion)
• Portney's Complaint (Philip Roth)
• Possession (A. S. Byatt)
• The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
• Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
• Ragtime (E. L. Doctorow)
• The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
• Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
• Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)
• The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
• Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
• The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
• The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
• The Sportswriter (Richard Ford)
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (John Le Carré)
• The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
• Their Eyes Were Watching Gold (Zora Neale Hurston)
• Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
• To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
• To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
• Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
• Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
• Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)
• Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
• Watchmen (Alan Moore)
• White Noise (Don Delillo)
• White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
• Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)

I have read 13/100 books on this list.