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    Time Magazines '100 all time best novels'

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    Post by Chris Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:30 am

    Read any of these?

    http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1951793,00.html#ixzz1b8yXKmWI


    ALL TIME 100 Novels

    TIME critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-Language novels from 1923 to the present
    Full List

    A - B

    The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
    All the King's Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
    American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
    An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
    Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell
    Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O'Hara
    Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume
    The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud
    At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O'Brien
    Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan
    Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison
    The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood
    The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler
    The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood
    Blood Meridian (1986), by Cormac McCarthy
    Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton Wilder

    C - D

    Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth
    Catch-22 (1961), by Joseph Heller
    The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J.D. Salinger
    A Clockwork Orange (1963), by Anthony Burgess
    The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron
    The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen
    The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon
    A Dance to the Music of Time (1951), by Anthony Powell
    The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather
    A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee
    The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen
    Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey
    Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert Stone

    F - G

    Falconer (1977), by John Cheever
    The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), by John Fowles
    The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing
    Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin
    Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell
    The Grapes of Wrath (1939), by John Steinbeck
    Gravity's Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pynchon
    The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    H - I

    A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh
    The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers
    The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene
    Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow
    Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson
    A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul
    I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves
    Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace
    Invisible Man (1952), by Ralph Ellison

    L - N

    Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner
    The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis
    Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov
    Lord of the Flies (1955), by William Golding
    The Lord of the Rings (1954), by J.R.R. Tolkien
    Loving (1945), by Henry Green
    Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis
    The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead
    Midnight's Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie
    Money (1984), by Martin Amis
    The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy
    Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf
    Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs
    Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright
    Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson
    Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
    1984 (1948), by George Orwell

    O - R

    On the Road (1957), by Jack Kerouac
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey
    The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski
    Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov
    A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster
    Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion
    Portnoy's Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth
    Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt
    The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark
    Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike
    Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow
    The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis
    Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett
    Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard Yates

    S - T

    The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles
    Slaughterhouse Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut
    Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson
    The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth
    The Sound and the Fury (1929), by William Faulkner
    The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre
    The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway
    Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
    Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe
    To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee
    To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf
    Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller

    U - W

    Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick
    Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch
    Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry
    Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
    White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo
    White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith
    Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys

    Graphic Novels

    Berlin: City of Stones (2000), by Jason Lutes
    Blankets (2003), by Craig Thompson
    Bone (2004), by Jeff Smith
    The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2002), by Kim Deitch
    The Dark Knight Returns (1986), by Frank Miller
    David Boring (2000), by Daniel Clowes
    Ed the Happy Clown (1989), by Chester Brown
    Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), by Chris Ware
    Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (2003), by Gilbert Hernandez
    Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
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    Post by Supernova Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:41 pm

    I've read six of them.

    Animal farm
    The Catcher in the Rye
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Lord of the Flies
    The Big Sleep
    Slaughterhouse Five.
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    Post by Alan Smithee Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:12 pm

    I have not read many of those at all.

    The Big Sleep
    Catch-22
    The Catcher in the Rye
    A Clockwork Orange
    The Grapes of Wrath
    The Great Gatsby
    Invisible Man
    Lord of the Flies
    The Lord of the Rings
    1984
    Ragtime
    Slaughterhouse Five
    To Kill a Mockingbird

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