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Time's All-Time 100 Novels

Based on bookaward: Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

74,749 members

1,180 reviews

3.8

19 Members: hipdeep, eromsted, aulsmith, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, mrmapcase, thecoroner, jephwood, alex68, rretzler, JuliaMaria, dylan555, ahef1963, bluepiano, mspixieears, GlendaLauz, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

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by George Orwell

61,774 members

891 reviews

4

18 Members: eromsted, cpg, aulsmith, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, mrmapcase, jephwood, alex68, rretzler, JuliaMaria, dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, bluepiano, mspixieears, GlendaLauz, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Orwell

84,891 members

1,298 reviews

4.2

17 Members: eromsted, cpg, aulsmith, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, mrmapcase, jephwood, alex68, rretzler, JuliaMaria, gypsysmom, ahef1963, bluepiano, mspixieears, Tinuvia, ManWithAnAgenda

4

To Kill a Mockingbird

81,374 members

1,461 reviews

½ 4.4

17 Members: hipdeep, eromsted, cpg, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, jephwood, rretzler, JuliaMaria, dylan555, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, bluepiano, mspixieears, GlendaLauz, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

51,705 members

467 reviews

½ 4.5

15 Members: eromsted, cpg, aulsmith, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, jephwood, rretzler, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, mspixieears, Tinuvia, WeeTurtle, ManWithAnAgenda

6

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,868 members

150 reviews

3.8

14 Members: cpg, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, jephwood, alex68, rretzler, dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

45,548 members

717 reviews

4.1

14 Members: hipdeep, eromsted, aulsmith, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, jephwood, rretzler, dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, bluepiano, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda,cpg

8

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

48,040 members

790 reviews

4.1

13 Members: cpg, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, jephwood, rretzler, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, mspixieears, GlendaLauz, WeeTurtle, ManWithAnAgenda,

9

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

35,462 members

481 reviews

4.1

12 Members: eromsted, cpg, aulsmith, sturlington, thecoroner, jephwood, alex68, cej1027, gypsysmom, FranzK72, Degbert, ManWithAnAgenda

10

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

26,612 members

392 reviews

4

12 Members: blackdove07, sturlington, thecoroner, jephwood, alex68, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, bluepiano, mspixieears, Tinuvia, FranzK72

11

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

71,371 members

1,100 reviews

3.8

15 Members: eromsted, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, thecoroner, jephwood, alex68, dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, bluepiano, GlendaLauz, Tinuvia, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,hipdeep ,aulsmith ,cej1027 ,WeeTurtle

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by William Gibson

23,779 members

381 reviews

3.9

11 Members: aprille, hipdeep, blackdove07, sturlington, jephwood, rretzler, gypsysmom, mspixieears, Tinuvia, FranzK72, WeeTurtle

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by Raymond Chandler

10,630 members

287 reviews

4

11 Members: cpg, aulsmith, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, rretzler, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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19,645 members

488 reviews

½ 4.3

11 Members: hipdeep, blackdove07, sturlington, jephwood, rretzler, dylan555, ahef1963, bluepiano, mspixieears, WeeTurtle, ManWithAnAgenda,FranzK72

15

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,974 members

266 reviews

4

10 Members: cpg, aulsmith, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar

16

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,379 members

178 reviews

½ 3.7

9 Members: aulsmith, blackdove07, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, FranzK72

17

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,587 members

344 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aprille, sturlington, jephwood, dylan555, ahef1963, bluepiano, WeeTurtle, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

51,410 members

751 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: eromsted, aulsmith, sturlington, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, bluepiano, mspixieears,WeeTurtle

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by Joseph Heller

41,073 members

539 reviews

4.1

9 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, blackdove07, sturlington, mrmapcase, thecoroner, rretzler, gypsysmom, bluepiano,FranzK72 ,

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by Vladimir Nabokov

32,624 members

571 reviews

4.1

8 Members: thecoroner, alex68, dylan555, bluepiano, GlendaLauz, Tinuvia, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

21

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

23,848 members

955 reviews

3.8

7 Members: cpg, sturlington, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, GlendaLauz, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Virginia Woolf

21,473 members

335 reviews

3.9

7 Members: blackdove07, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Neal Stephenson

20,608 members

403 reviews

4.1

7 Members: aprille, hipdeep, sturlington, mrmapcase, jephwood, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

14,301 members

252 reviews

4

7 Members: aprille, thecoroner, alex68, dylan555, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72

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by Toni Morrison

23,763 members

415 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

21,423 members

440 reviews

3.8

6 Members: eromsted, dylan555, cej1027, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

27

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

18,271 members

276 reviews

3.9

7 Members: merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, rretzler, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,bluepiano

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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

17,003 members

344 reviews

3.8

7 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, gypsysmom, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,bluepiano

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13,247 members

295 reviews

4

7 Members: merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,bluepiano

30

by Vladimir Nabokov

8,197 members

144 reviews

4.2

6 Members: eromsted, thecoroner, alex68, dylan555, bluepiano, FranzK72

31

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,680 members

106 reviews

3.8

7 Members: aprille, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, FranzK72,bluepiano

32

2,156 members

40 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, eromsted, thecoroner, alex68, bluepiano, FranzK72

33

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,773 members

301 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, eromsted, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963

34

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

24,115 members

453 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: merrystar, mrmapcase, rretzler, gypsysmom, bluepiano, GlendaLauz,sturlington

35

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,843 members

226 reviews

4

6 Members: eromsted, thecoroner, alex68, dylan555, ahef1963, FranzK72,aulsmith

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11,370 members

173 reviews

3.8

5 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72

37

by Robert Graves

9,421 members

171 reviews

4.2

5 Members: aulsmith, dylan555, ahef1963, bluepiano, FranzK72

38

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

9,077 members

135 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aprille, thecoroner, alex68, dylan555, FranzK72

39

Portnoy's Complaint

7,554 members

157 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, bluepiano, FranzK72,sturlington

40

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,942 members

249 reviews

4

5 Members: aprille, sturlington, jephwood, ahef1963, bluepiano

41

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

6,045 members

115 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, eromsted, aulsmith, ahef1963, FranzK72

42

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

4,951 members

118 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, aulsmith, thecoroner, jephwood, gypsysmom, FranzK72,sturlington

43

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,439 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aprille, eromsted, thecoroner, bluepiano, FranzK72

44

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,951 members

355 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, eromsted, sturlington, jephwood, ahef1963,aulsmith

45

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,053 members

251 reviews

4

5 Members: sturlington, dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

46

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,541 members

106 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, jephwood, ahef1963, FranzK72

47

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John le Carré

8,922 members

246 reviews

4

5 Members: aprille, hipdeep, blackdove07, gypsysmom, ahef1963,sturlington

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Wide Sargasso Sea

8,768 members

264 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

8,021 members

243 reviews

3.8

5 Members: sturlington, rretzler, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

50

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

7,978 members

127 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

51

Ragtime: A Novel

by E. L. Doctorow

6,388 members

126 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, eromsted, mrmapcase, gypsysmom

52

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,552 members

98 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom, FranzK72

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5,329 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aprille, eromsted, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72,aulsmith

54

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,084 members

50 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, bluepiano, FranzK72

55

The Adventures of Augie March

3,952 members

75 reviews

3.8

4 Members: eromsted, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

56

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,313 members

34 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: eromsted, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

57

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,231 members

41 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, alex68, gypsysmom, FranzK72

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by Jack Kerouac

28,568 members

392 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, dylan555, gypsysmom, mspixieears,sturlington ,bluepiano

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27,031 members

637 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963

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The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,800 members

389 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, mspixieears,bluepiano

61

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

11,096 members

147 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72,sturlington

62

by Richard Wright

8,010 members

102 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, eromsted, dylan555

63

by Philip K. Dick

7,854 members

165 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, thecoroner, gypsysmom

64

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

6,185 members

150 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, merrystar, dylan555

65

by Kingsley Amis

5,944 members

156 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, bluepiano

66

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

5,203 members

84 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, gypsysmom, ahef1963

67

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,551 members

91 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

68

The Sheltering Sky

4,447 members

82 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aprille, sturlington, gypsysmom, bluepiano,ManWithAnAgenda

69

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

3,547 members

69 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, eromsted, ahef1963

70

At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien

3,349 members

64 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, alex68

71

by Dashiell Hammett

3,123 members

93 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, mrmapcase, bluepiano

72

by James Dickey

2,660 members

59 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, sturlington, bluepiano

73

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,924 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: jephwood, bluepiano, ManWithAnAgenda

74

Appointment in Samarra

1,873 members

44 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, sturlington, dylan555

75

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

11,280 members

200 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, eromsted, mspixieears,blackdove07

76

American Pastoral

8,309 members

179 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, gypsysmom, FranzK72,sturlington

77

by Marilynne Robinson

6,553 members

217 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

78

6,277 members

110 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, dylan555, gypsysmom,sturlington

79

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

4,514 members

94 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, bluepiano

80

Money: A Suicide Note

3,367 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, alex68

81

Play It As It Lays

3,119 members

60 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, bluepiano

82

The Sportswriter

by Richard Ford

2,998 members

60 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

83

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,787 members

38 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72,sturlington

84

The Sot-Weed Factor

2,190 members

40 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

85

by Iris Murdoch

2,188 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, dylan555, gypsysmom,bluepiano

86

by Bernard Malamud

1,615 members

29 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, gypsysmom

87

The Man Who Loved Children

by Christina Stead

1,480 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, JuliaMaria, dylan555,bluepiano

88

by John Cheever

1,447 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

89

by Robert Stone

1,026 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

90

739 members

20 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

91

A Dance to the Music of Time

by Anthony Powell

187 members

24 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

92

by Ralph Ellison

16,756 members

213 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, jephwood, dylan555,aulsmith ,merrystar

93

14,010 members

252 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

94

by David Foster Wallace

13,674 members

250 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

95

by Cormac McCarthy

12,174 members

282 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, sturlington, bluepiano,blackdove07 ,FranzK72

96

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,535 members

128 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, dylan555,sturlington

97

by Walker Percy

4,804 members

97 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, dylan555,sturlington

98

A Death in the Family

3,145 members

69 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

99

The Death of the Heart

by Elizabeth Bowen

1,749 members

39 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555

100

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński

3,044 members

75 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555,aulsmith

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