TIME Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo picked the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.[http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html; viewed 31 October 2005] Listed alphabetically by title. Read 1 of 100

• 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
• Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
• The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead
• Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
• Money Martin Amis
• The Moviegoer Walker Percy
• Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
• Naked Lunch William Burroughs
• 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 Kosinski
• Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
• A Passage to India E.M. Forster
• Play It As It Lays Joan Didion
• Portnoy'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 Carre
• The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
• Their Eyes Were Watching God 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 and Dave Gibbons
• White Noise Don DeLillo
• White Teeth Zadie Smith
• Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys