TIME's 100 Best Novels

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The Adventures of Augie March (1953) Saul Bellow All the King's Men (1946) Robert Penn Warren American Pastoral (1997) Philip Roth An American Tragedy (1925) Theodore Dreiser Animal Farm (1946) George Orwell Appointment in Samarra (1934) John O'Hara Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) Judy Blume The Assistant (1957) Bernard Malamud At Swim-Two-Birds (1938) Flann O'Brien Atonement (2002) Ian McEwan Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison The Berlin Stories (1946) Christopher Isherwood The Big Sleep (1939) Raymond Chandler The Blind Assassin (2000) Margaret Atwood Blood Meridian (1986) Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited (1946) Evelyn Waugh		The Man Who Loved Children (1940) Christina Stead Midnight's Children (1981) Salman Rushdie Money (1984) Martin Amis The Moviegoer (1961) Walker Percy Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Virginia Woolf Naked Lunch (1959) William Burroughs Native Son (1940) Richard Wright Neuromancer (1984) William Gibson Never Let Me Go (2005) Kazuo Ishiguro 1984 (1948) George Orwell On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) Ken Kesey The Painted Bird (1965) Jerzy Kosinski Pale Fire (1962) Vladimir Nabokov A Passage to India (1924) E.M. Forster Play It As It Lays (1970) Joan Didion