I am not much of a reader, so this may take a while. This list comes fromTime Magazine’s All-Time best 100 English language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
I will update with links as I read/purchase each one.
- To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee - 1984
by George Orwell - The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by J.R.R. Tolkien - The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger - The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by C.S. Lewis - Lord of the Flies
by William Golding - Animal Farm
by George Orwell - Catch-22
by Joseph Heller - The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck - Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell - Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut - Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Ken Kesey - A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume (Goodreads Author) - Atonement
by Ian McEwan - Watchmen (Watchmen #1-12)
by Alan Moore (Goodreads Author) - Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro - Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe - Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison - Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf - Beloved
by Toni Morrison - On the Road
by Jack Kerouac - The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway - Possession
by A.S. Byatt - The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by Raymond Chandler - A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster - I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by Robert Graves - Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston - The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner - All the King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren - The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) - Native Son
by Richard Wright - To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf - Ragtime
by E.L. Doctorow - The French Lieutenant’s Woman
by John Fowles - Light in August
by William Faulkner - Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs - The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
by John le Carré - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy - White Noise
by Don DeLillo - Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace - Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
by Evelyn Waugh - Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author) - Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates - Midnight’s Children
by Salman Rushdie - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark - Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder - American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
by Philip Roth - The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene - The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon - Portnoy’s Complaint
by Philip Roth - Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys - Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by William Gibson - The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen - Gravity’s Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon - Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett - White Teeth
by Zadie Smith - Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry - The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosiński - Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin - A House for Mr Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul - Play It as It Lays
by Joan Didion - Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis - Ubik
by Philip K. Dick - Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom #1)
by John Updike - The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing - The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene - Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov - The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy - The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron - Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller - Appointment in Samarra
by John O’Hara - Money
by Martin Amis - Deliverance
by James Dickey - The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West - Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson - The Man Who Loved Children
by Christina Stead - The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth - The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow - Herzog
by Saul Bellow - At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O’Brien - Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth - The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles - A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh - The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
by Richard Ford - The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher Isherwood - A Death in the Family
by James Agee - The Recognitions
by William Gaddis - Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone - The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud - Loving
by Henry Green - Under the Net
by Iris Murdoch - A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3)
by Anthony Powell - An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser - Falconer
by John Cheever - The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen