Here is the list of what time.com considers to be the 100 best novels of all time:
- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
- All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren (Read the Original Review)
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth (Read the Original Review)
- An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
- Animal Farm, George Orwell (Read the Original Review)
- Appointment in Samarra, John O’Hara (Read the Original Review)
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
- The Assistant, Bernard Malamud (Read the Original Review)
- At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
- Atonement, Ian McEwan (Read the Original Review)
- Beloved, Toni Morrison (Read the Original Review)
- The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood (Read the Original Review)
- The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (Read the Original Review)
- The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood (Read the Original Review)
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (Read the Original Review)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder (Read the Original Review)
- Call It Sleep, Henry Roth (Read the Original Review)
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller (Read the Original Review)
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (Read the Original Review)
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (Read the Original Review)
- The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron (Read the Original Review)
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (Read the Original Review)
- The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon (Read the Original Review)
- A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell (Read the Original Review)
- The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (Read the Original Review)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
- A Death in the Family, James Agee
- The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (Read the Original Review)
- Deliverance, James Dickey (Read the Original Review)
- Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone (Read the Original Review)
- Falconer, John Cheever (Read the Original Review)
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles (Read the Original Review)
- The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing (Read the Original Review)
- Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin (Read the Original Review)
- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (Read the Original Review)
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (Read the Original Review)
- Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon (Read the Original Review)
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (Read the Original Review)
- A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (Read the Original Review)
- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (Read the Original Review)
- The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
- Herzog, Saul Bellow (Read the Original Review)
- Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson (Read the Original Review)
- A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul (Read the Original Review)
- I, Claudius, Robert Graves (Read the Original Review)
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace (Read the Original Review)
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (Read the Original Review)
- Light in August, William Faulkner (Read the Original Review)
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (Read the Original Review)
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (Read the Original Review)
- Loving, Henry Green (Read the Original Review)
- Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis (Read the Original Review)
- The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead (Read the Original Review)
- Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
- Money, Martin Amis (Read the Original Review)
- The Moviegoer, Walker Percy (Read the Original Review)
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- Naked Lunch, William Burroughs (Read the Original Review)
- Native Son, Richard Wright (Read the Original Review)
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (Read the Original Review)
- 1984, George Orwell (Read the Original Review)
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac (Read the Original Review)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey (Read the Original Review)
- The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
- Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (Read the Original Review)
- A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
- Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
- Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth (Read the Original Review)
- Possession, A.S. Byatt (Read the Original Review)
- The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (Read the Original Review)
- Rabbit, Run, John Updike (Read the Original Review)
- Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow (Read the Original Review)
- The Recognitions, William Gaddis (Read the Original Review)
- Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
- Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
- The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles (Read the Original Review)
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (Read the Original Review)
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
- The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
- The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
- The Sportswriter, Richard Ford (Read the Original Review)
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John le Carre (Read the Original Review)
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (Read the Original Review)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (Read the Original Review)
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (Read the Original Review)
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (Read the Original Review)
- Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (Read the Original Review)
- Ubik, Philip K. Dick
- Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
- Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (Read the Original Review)
- Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- White Noise, Don DeLillo (Read the Original Review)
- White Teeth, Zadie Smith (Read the Original Review)
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys