Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

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99 Novels (or Ninety-Nine Novels) is a book published by Anthony Burgess in 1984 in which he reflects on a lifetime of prodigious reading and offers his personal list of the most important novels show more from 1939 to 1983. See also the Wikipedia page: 99 Novels show less

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Work	Year
Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer	1983
The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies	1982
Lanark by Alasdair Gray	1981
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux	1981
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux	1981
Creation by Gore Vidal	1981
Life in the West by Brian W. Aldiss	1980
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban	1980
How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge	1980
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole	1980
The Unlimited Dream Company by J. G. Ballard	1979
Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud	1979
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul	1979
Sophie's Choice by William Styron	1979
The Coup by John Updike	1978
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong	1977
Farewell Companions by James Plunkett	1977
Staying On by Paul Scott	1977
The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore	1976
Falstaff by Robert Nye	1976
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow	1975
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury	1975
Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn	1973
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon	1973
Bomber by Len Deighton	1970
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles	1969
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth	1969
The Image Men by J. B. Priestley	1968
Cocksure by Mordecai Richler	1968
Pavane by Keith Roberts	1968
The Vendor of Sweets by R. K. Narayan	1967
A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe	1966
The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis	1966
Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth	1966
The Late Bourgeois World by Nadine Gordimer	1966
The Last Gentleman: A Novel by Walker Percy	1966
The Lockwood Concern by John O'Hara	1965
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark	1965
The Spire by William Golding	1964
Heartland by Wilson Harris	1964
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood	1964
The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov	1964
Late Call by Angus Wilson	1964
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark	1963
Another Country by James Baldwin	1962
Island by Aldous Huxley	1962
An Error of Judgement by Pamela Hansford Johnson	1962
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing	1962
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov	1962
The Mighty and Their Fall by Ivy Compton-Burnett	1961
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller	1961
The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes	1961
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White	1961
The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson	1961
Facial Justice by L. P. Hartley	1960
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning	1960
Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion (Modern Library) by William Faulkner	1959
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming	1959
The Bell by Iris Murdoch	1958
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe	1958
The Once and Future King by T. H. White	1958
Room at the Top by John Braine	1957
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell	1957
The London Novels by Colin MacInnes	1957
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud	1957
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis	1954
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler	1953
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison	1952
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway	1952
The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy	1952
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor	1952
The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh	1952
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell	1951
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger	1951
A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight by Henry Williamson	1951
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk	1951
Scenes from Provincial Life by William Cooper	1950
The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg	1950
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen	1949
1984 by George Orwell	1949
The Body by William Sansom	1949
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene	1948
Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley	1948
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer	1948
No Highway by Nevil Shute	1948
The Victim by Saul Bellow	1947
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry	1947
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake	1946
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh	1945
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary	1944
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham	1944
The Aerodrome by Rex Warner	1941
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene	1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway	1940
Strangers and Brothers (Set) by C.P. Snow	1940
Party Going by Henry Green	1939
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley	1939
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce	1939
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien	1939

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