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Time's Top 100 Novels 1923-present
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Time Magazine has just published their Top 100 Best English Speaking Novels from 1923 to the Present. The full list, along with the "whys" is here. While I agree with many of them, there's a couple which I find profoundly disturbing. I haven't read every one of them, but I don't believe in banning books, either. Any thoughts? Oh, here's the list, for those who don't want the "whys": The Complete List In Alphabetical Order 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 & Dave Gibbons White Noise Don DeLillo White Teeth Zadie Smith Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys |
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Of Mice & Men should have been on there, I would have liked to see Night on there, and A Brave New World. |
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i've read 10, and i'm very excited that my 2 favorite authors are on the list (Hurston & Baldwin).
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Read a few of those. I personally couldn't stand Catch-22 and To the Lighthouse.
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Animal Farm
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Beloved Catch-22 The Catcher in the Rye A Clockwork Orange Gone With the Wind The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings 1984 On the Road One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Slaughterhouse-Five The Sun Also Rises To Kill a Mockingbird i really like to read, and most of these i've read for school or in the summers i try to read a lot of classics and books i should have read :) |
I've read the following, both for class and on my own:
All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser Animal Farm George Orwell Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume Beloved Toni Morrison Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess The Day of the Locust Nathanael West A Death in the Family James Agee Deliverance James Dickey Falconer John Cheever Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene 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 Naked Lunch William Burroughs Native Son Richard Wright 1984 George Orwell On the Road Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Rabbit, Run John Updike Ragtime E.L. Doctorow Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carre The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller I agree with Buttonz; both Night and Brave New World both deserved a mention. The Painted Bird has to be one of THE sickest books I've ever read, and I don't care if it's somewhat of a biography of Roman Polanski! I don't know if Dr. Zhivago could be included, as it was first written in Russian, but it would be a better contender than many of the above. I would've expected to see In Cold Blood, too. |
i've read 19 of them - i guess i've got some catch up to play...
totally agree with night, of mice and men, and brave new world |
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On The Road is one of my favorite books...kinda odd considering my more conservative leanings...but then I like journey-type books...Following the Equator may be my favorite book.
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Animal Farm - George Orwell
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume Catch-22 - Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis Lord of the Flies - William Golding 1984 - George Orwell One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee i guess 17 isn't too bad, but some of those I read so long in school. does make me feel not very well-read though. |
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The Stranger was originally in french so that's why it was left off the list. I am guessing Metamorphosis is also a translated work. |
good call
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I haven't read much from this list:
Animal Farm The Catcher in the Rye The Great Gatsby The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Their Eyes Were Watching God To Kill a Mockingbird Two of my favorites aren't on here: East of Eden and In Cold Blood. I wonder if In Cold Blood isn't listed because it's considered a non-fiction novel. |
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