Top 100 Novel around the world at all time
Rank Ttile Author Year Published Desc 1 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 2 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren 3 American Pastoral Philip Roth 4 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 5 Animal Farm George Orwell 6 Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara 7 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume 8 The Assistant Bernard Malamud 9 At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien 10 Atonement Ian McEwan 11 Beloved Toni Morrison 12 The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood 13 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 14 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 15 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 16 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 17 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder 18 Call It Sleep Henry Roth 19 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 20 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 21 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 22 The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 23 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 24 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 25 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 26 The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 27 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 28 A Death in the Family James Agee 29 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen 30 Deliverance James Dickey 31 Dog Soldiers Robert Stone 32 Falconer John Cheever 33 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles 34 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 35 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 36 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 37 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 38 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 39 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 40 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 41 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 42 The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene 43 Herzog Saul Bellow 44 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 45 A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul 46 I, Claudius Robert Graves 47 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 48 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 49 Light in August William Faulkner 50 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis 51 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 52 Lord of the Flies William Golding 53 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien 54 Loving Henry Green 55 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 56 The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead 57 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 58 Money Martin Amis 59 The Moviegoer Walker Percy 60 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 61 Naked Lunch William Burroughs 62 Native Son Richard Wright 63 Neuromancer William Gibson 64 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 65 1984 George Orwell 66 On the Road Jack Kerouac 67 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 68 The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski 69 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 70 A Passage to India E.M. Forster 71 Play It As It Lays Joan Didion 72 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 73 Possession A.S. Byatt 74 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 75 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 76 Rabbit, Run John Updike 77 Ragtime E.L. Doctorow 78 The Recognitions William Gaddis 79 Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett 80 Revolutionary Road Richard Yates 81 The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles 82 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 83 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson 84 The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth 85 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 86 The Sportswriter Richard Ford 87 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carre 88 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 89 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 90 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 91 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 92 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 93 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller 94 Ubik Philip K. Dick 95 Under the Net Iris Murdoch 96 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 97 Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 98 White Noise Don DeLillo 99 White Teeth Zadie Smith 100 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys