Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]

Historical Literary

The best 100 novels written in English starting in 1923 (the year Time was founded), chosen by critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo. George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, William Faulkner, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Saul Bellow, Thomas Pynchon and Virginia Woolf are represented more than once.

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1

E.L. Doctorow

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

2

Cormac McCarthy

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

3

John O'Hara

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

4

Muriel Spark

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

5

Neal Stephenson

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

6

Christopher Isherwood

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

7

A.S. Byatt

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

8

Zadie Smith

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

9

Nathanael West

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

10

Thomas Pynchon

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

11

Kingsley Amis

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

12

Evelyn Waugh

Author

100% (2 of 2 votes)

13

Judy Blume

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

14

Anthony Burgess

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

15

Elizabeth Bowen

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

16

Dave Gibbons

Artist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

17

Walker Percy

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

18

Ian McEwan

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

19

Paul Bowles

Author

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

20

John Barth

Author

52.05% (38 of 73 votes)

21

Malcolm Lowry

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

22

Richard Wright (Novelist)

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

23

Ernest Hemingway

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

24

J.R.R. Tolkien

Author

45.45% (5 of 11 votes)

25

Ralph Ellison

Author

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

26

John Updike

Author

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

27

Toni Morrison

Author

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

28

Philip K. Dick

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

29

John Cheever

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

30

Zora Neale Hurston

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

31

Anthony Powell

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

32

William Faulkner

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

33

E.M. Forster

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

34

Doris Lessing

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

35

John Steinbeck

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0% (0 of 3 votes)

36

William Seward Burroughs

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0% (0 of 1 votes)

37

James Dickey

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

38

John Fowles

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

39

Joan Didion

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0% (0 of 3 votes)

40

Dashiell Hammett

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

41

John Le Carre

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

42

Henry Green

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

43

Don DeLillo

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

44

Richard Yates

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

45

C.S. Lewis

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

46

J.D. Salinger

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

47

Vladimir Nabokov

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

48

Iris Murdoch

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

49

Virginia Woolf

Author

0% (0 of 3 votes)

50

James Agee

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

51

Harper Lee

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

52

Jack Kerouac

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0% (0 of 3 votes)

53

Philip Roth

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

54

Graham Greene (Writer)

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

55

David Foster Wallace

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

56

Margaret Atwood

Author

0% (0 of 3 votes)

57

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

58

George Orwell

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

59

Raymond Chandler

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

60

Kazuo Ishiguro

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

61

Alan Moore

Artist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

62

William Golding

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

63

Willa Cather

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

64

Martin Amis

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

65

Henry Miller

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

66

Joseph Heller

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

67

Saul Bellow

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

68

Ken Kesey

Author

0% (0 of 6 votes)

69

Robert Penn Warren

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

70

Margaret Mitchell

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

71

James Baldwin

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0% (0 of 1 votes)

72

William Gibson

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

73

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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0% (0 of 1 votes)

74

Salman Rushdie

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

75

Theodore Dreiser

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0% (0 of 1 votes)

76

V.S. Naipaul

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

77

Chinua Achebe

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

78

Jonathan Franzen

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

79

William Styron

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

80

Thornton Wilder

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

81

Robert Graves

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

82

Jerzy Kosinski

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

83

Bernard Malamud

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

84

Jean Rhys

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

85

Carson McCullers

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

86

Marilynne Robinson

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0% (0 of 1 votes)

87

William Gaddis

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0% (0 of 1 votes)

88

Christina Stead

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

89

Robert Stone (Novelist)

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0% (0 of 0 votes)

90

Flann O'Brien

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0% (0 of 1 votes)

91

Richard Ford

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0% (0 of 0 votes)