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Time's All-Time 100 Novels

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

Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

70,386 members

1,139 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

2

by George Orwell

58,516 members

856 reviews

4

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

3

by George Orwell

79,957 members

1,246 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

76,614 members

1,420 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

49,473 members

449 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

12,208 members

139 reviews

3.8

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

7

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

44,371 members

742 reviews

4.1

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

8

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

43,180 members

690 reviews

4.1

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

9

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,480 members

460 reviews

4.1

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

10

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,464 members

380 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

68,216 members

1,065 reviews

3.8

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

12

by William Gibson

22,718 members

368 reviews

3.9

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

13

by Raymond Chandler

10,055 members

277 reviews

4

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

14

18,785 members

482 reviews

½ 4.3

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

15

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,295 members

263 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

5,143 members

167 reviews

½ 3.7

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

17

by Joseph Heller

39,217 members

514 reviews

4.1

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

18

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,526 members

329 reviews

3.8

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

19

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,549 members

736 reviews

½ 3.7

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

20

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,160 members

546 reviews

4.1

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

21

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

22,322 members

926 reviews

3.8

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

22

by Virginia Woolf

20,084 members

323 reviews

3.9

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

23

by Neal Stephenson

19,780 members

386 reviews

4.1

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

24

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,627 members

241 reviews

4

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

25

by Toni Morrison

22,266 members

397 reviews

3.9

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

26

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,158 members

426 reviews

3.8

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

27

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,174 members

260 reviews

3.9

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

28

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,392 members

337 reviews

3.8

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

29

12,731 members

285 reviews

4

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

30

by Vladimir Nabokov

7,742 members

134 reviews

4.2

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

31

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,462 members

108 reviews

3.8

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

32

2,055 members

39 reviews

3.9

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

33

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,741 members

295 reviews

4.1

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

34

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,970 members

434 reviews

½ 4.3

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

35

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,886 members

222 reviews

4

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

36

10,758 members

167 reviews

3.8

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

37

by Robert Graves

9,006 members

164 reviews

4.2

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

38

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

8,647 members

127 reviews

½ 3.6

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

39

Portnoy's Complaint

7,254 members

149 reviews

½ 3.6

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

40

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,688 members

241 reviews

4

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

41

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,557 members

108 reviews

3.9

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

42

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

4,667 members

118 reviews

3.8

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

43

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,165 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

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

44

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,155 members

35 reviews

½ 4.3

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

45

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

18,609 members

337 reviews

4

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

46

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,515 members

237 reviews

4

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

47

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,029 members

102 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, jephwood, ahef1963, FranzK72

48

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John le Carré

8,410 members

235 reviews

4

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

49

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,228 members

242 reviews

½ 3.5

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

50

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

7,598 members

121 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

51

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

7,496 members

234 reviews

3.8

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

52

by E. L. Doctorow

6,132 members

120 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, eromsted, mrmapcase, gypsysmom

53

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,294 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom, FranzK72

54

5,133 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

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

55

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

3,925 members

48 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, bluepiano, FranzK72

56

The Adventures of Augie March

3,774 members

72 reviews

3.9

4 Members: eromsted, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

57

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,142 members

40 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, alex68, gypsysmom, FranzK72

58

by Jack Kerouac

27,440 members

383 reviews

½ 3.6

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

59

25,998 members

615 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963

60

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,403 members

381 reviews

3.9

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

61

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

10,527 members

139 reviews

4.1

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

62

by Richard Wright

7,548 members

98 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, eromsted, dylan555

63

by Philip K. Dick

7,405 members

156 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, thecoroner, gypsysmom

64

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

5,794 members

143 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, merrystar, dylan555

65

by Kingsley Amis

5,732 members

152 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, bluepiano

66

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

4,979 members

83 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, gypsysmom, ahef1963

67

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,310 members

86 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

68

The Sheltering Sky

4,232 members

78 reviews

3.8

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

69

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

3,387 members

66 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, eromsted, ahef1963

70

At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien

3,223 members

62 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, alex68

71

by Dashiell Hammett

2,961 members

87 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, mrmapcase, bluepiano

72

by James Dickey

2,522 members

57 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, sturlington, bluepiano

73

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,813 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: jephwood, bluepiano, ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

10,793 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, eromsted, mspixieears,blackdove07

75

American Pastoral

7,923 members

176 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, gypsysmom, FranzK72,sturlington

76

by Marilynne Robinson

6,209 members

206 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

77

6,028 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, dylan555, gypsysmom,sturlington

78

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

4,310 members

91 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, bluepiano

79

Money: A Suicide Note

3,229 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, alex68

80

The Sportswriter

by Richard Ford

2,880 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

81

Play It As It Lays

2,854 members

59 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, bluepiano

82

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,666 members

36 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72,sturlington

83

by Iris Murdoch

2,107 members

50 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, dylan555, gypsysmom,bluepiano

84

The Sot-Weed Factor

2,061 members

38 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

85

Appointment in Samarra

1,762 members

42 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

86

by Bernard Malamud

1,556 members

28 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, gypsysmom

87

The Man Who Loved Children

by Christina Stead

1,418 members

44 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, JuliaMaria, dylan555,bluepiano

88

by John Cheever

1,380 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

89

by Robert Stone

994 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

90

703 members

18 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

91

A Dance to the Music of Time

by Anthony Powell

148 members

6 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: aprille, dylan555

92

by Ralph Ellison

15,914 members

203 reviews

4

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

93

13,448 members

240 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

94

by David Foster Wallace

12,990 members

240 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

95

by Cormac McCarthy

11,205 members

267 reviews

4.2

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

96

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,167 members

127 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, dylan555,sturlington

97

by Walker Percy

4,620 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, dylan555,sturlington

98

A Death in the Family

2,992 members

65 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

99

The Death of the Heart

by Elizabeth Bowen

1,653 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dylan555

100

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński

2,914 members

71 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555,aulsmith

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