100 Best English-Language Novels Since 1923

The Adventures of Augie March — Saul Bellow (1953)

All the King's Men — Robert Penn Warren (1946)

American Pastoral — Philip Roth (1997)

An American Tragedy — Theodore Dreiser (1925)

Animal Farm — George Orwell (1945)

Appointment in Samarra — John O'Hara (1934)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret — Judy Blume (1970)

The Assistant — Bernard Malamud (1957)

At Swim-Two-Birds — Flann O'Brien (1938)

Atonement — Ian McEwan (2001)

Beloved — Toni Morrison (1987)

The Berlin Stories — Christopher Isherwood (1945)

The Big Sleep — Raymond Chandler (1939)

Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy (1985)

Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh (1945)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey — Thornton Wilder (1927)

Call It Sleep — Henry Roth (1934)

Catch-22 — Joseph Heller (1961)

The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger (1951)

A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess (1962)

The Confessions of Nat Turner — William Styron (1967)

The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen (2001)

The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon (1966)

A Dance to the Music of Time — Anthony Powell (1975)

The Day of the Locust — Nathanael West (1939)

Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather (1927)

A Death in the Family — James Agee (1957)

The Death of the Heart — Elizabeth Bowen (1938)

Deliverance — James Dickey (1970)

Dog Soldiers — Robert Stone (1974)

Falconer — John Cheever (1977)

The French Lieutenant's Woman — John Fowles (1969)

The Golden Notebook — Doris Lessing (1962)

Go Tell It on the Mountain — James Baldwin (1953)

Gone with the Wind — Margaret Mitchell (1936)

The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck (1939)

Gravity's Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon (1973)

The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

A Handful of Dust — Evelyn Waugh (1934)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers (1940)

The Heart of the Matter — Graham Greene (1948)

Herzog — Saul Bellow (1964)

Housekeeping — Marilynne Robinson (1980)

A House for Mr. Biswas — V.S. Naipaul (1961)

I, Claudius — Robert Graves (1934)

Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace (1996)

Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison (1952)

Light in August — William Faulkner (1932)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — C.S. Lewis (1950)