Time's Top 100 Novels 1923-present

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Native Son
Richard Wright
1984
George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys

Read all of those. I really loved Things Fall Apart and Slaughterhouse Five. I'm a big fan of Vonnegut's, but personally, Galapagos is my favorite of his works. Like Buttonz and everyone else said, I'm surprised that Brave New World didn't make the list. Also, I was kind of expecting to see Kafka's Metamorphosis or Camus's The Stranger somewhere on the list.

[AEPhiSierra]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

Read all of those. I really loved Things Fall Apart and Slaughterhouse Five. I'm a big fan of Vonnegut's, but personally, Galapagos is my favorite of his works. Like Buttonz and everyone else said, I'm surprised that Brave New World didn't make the list. Also, I was kind of expecting to see Kafka's Metamorphosis or Camus's The Stranger somewhere on the list.

I am also suprised about a Brave New World.

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.

[tunatartare]

good call

[orighu]

do movies count?
seriously, I have read a few of those - others are on my list to read that I should have read when i was younger (I just finshed Go Tell it on the Mountain w/in the last week).

I can't believe White Teeth was on there - I i wouldn't consider that a great novel - when clearly others were left off the list (Sula by Toni Morrison), but glad to see Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret on there - I LOVED that book! Judy Blume was just the best back then.