New York Times Top 100

Top 100 Novels from The New York Times

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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