Time Magazine’s Best Book of All Time

1. The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow

2. All the King’s Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren 

3. American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth 

4. An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser 

5. Animal Farm (1946) by George Orwell 

6. Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O’Hara 

7. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume 

8. The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud 

9. At Swim-Two-Birds (1938) Flann O’ Brien

10. Atonement (2002) by Ian McEwan 

11. Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison 

12. The Berlin Stories (1946) by Christopher Isherwood

13. The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler 

14. The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood 

15. Blood Meridian (1986) by Cormac McCarthy 

16. Brideshead Revisited (1946) by Evelyn Waugh 

17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thornton Wilder 

18. Call it Sleep (1935) by Henry Roth 

19. Catch 22 (1961) by Joseph Heller 

20. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger 

21. A Clockwork Orange (1963) by Anthony Burgess 

22. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) by William Styron

23. The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen 

24. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon 

25. A Dance to the Music of Time (1951) by Anthony Powell 

26. The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West 

27. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather 

28. A Death in the Family (1958) by James Agee 

29. The Death of the Heart (1958) by Elizabeth Bowen 

30. Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey 

31. Dog Soldiers (1974) by Robert Stone 

32. Falconer (1977) by John Cheever 

33. The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles 

34. The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing 

35. Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin 

36. Gone With The Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell 

37. The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck 

38. Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon

39. The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

40. A Handful of Dust (1935) by Evelyn Waugh 

41. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers 

42. The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene

43. Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow

44. Housekeeping (1981) by Marilynne Robinson 

45. A House for Mr. Biswas (1962) by V.S. Naipaul 

46. I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves 

47. Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace 

48. Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison 

49. Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner

50. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis 

51. Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov 

52. Lord of the Flies (1955) by William Golding 

53. The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien 

54. Loving (1945) by Henry Green 

55. Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis 

56. The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead

57. Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie 

58. Money (1984) by Martin Amis 

59. The Moviegoer (1964) by Walker Percy 

60. Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf 

61. Naked Lunch (1959) by William Burroughs 

62. Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright 

63. Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson 

64. Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro 

65. 1984 (1948) by George Orwell 

66. On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac

67. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey 

68. The Painted Bird (1965) by Jerzy Kosinski

69. Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov 

70. A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster 

71. Play It As It Lays (1970) by Joan Didion

72. Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth 

73. Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt 

74. The Power and the Glory (1939) by Graham Greene 

75. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark 

76. Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike 

77. Ragtime (1975) E.L. Doctorow

78. The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis

79. Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett 

80. Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates 

81. The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles

82. Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut 

83. Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson 

84. The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth 

85. The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner 

86. The Sportswriter (1986) by Richard Ford 

87. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1964) by John Le Carre 

88. The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway 

89. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston 

90. Things Fall Apart (1959) by Chinua Achebe 

91. To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee 

92. To The Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf

93. Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller

94. Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick 

95. Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch

96. Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcom Lowry 

97. Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 

98. White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo

99. White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith

100. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Jean Rhys