List of English-language books considered the best

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This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.

List

Name Author Year Ref.
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953 [1][2][3]
All The King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 [1][4][2]
Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 [1][4][2]
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara 1934 [1][4][2]
Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 [1][4][5]
Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 [1][4][5][3]
A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979 [4][2][3]
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 [1][4][5][6]
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 [4][2][3][6]
Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 [1][4][5]
The Catcher In The Rye J.D. Salinger 1951 [1][4][2][5][6]
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1963 [1][2][3]
A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 1951-75 [1][4][5]
The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939 [1][4][2]
Deliverance James Dickey 1970 [1][4][2]
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 1962 [1][4][2][3]
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1915 [4][2][3]
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953 [1][2][5]
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 [1][4][2][5][6]
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 [1][4][2][5][6]
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 [4][2][5]
Light in August William Faulkner 1932 [1][4][2]
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 [1][4][2][5][3][6]
Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 [1][4][2]
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien 1954 [1][5][6]
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930 [4][2][3]
The Moviegoer Walker Percy 1961 [1][4][2]
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 [1][4][5]
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 [1][4][2][5][3][6]
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 [1][5][3]
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949 [1][2][5][3][6]
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915 [4][2][3]
On The Road Jack Kerouac 1957 [1][2][5][6]
A Passage to India E.M. Forster 1924 [1][4][2][5]
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 [1][4][2]
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961 [1][2][5]
Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938 [4][2][5]
Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 [4][2][6]
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 [1][2][3][6]
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 [1][4][2]
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 [1][4][5]
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 [1][4][2][3]
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller 1934 [1][2][3]
Ulysses James Joyce 1922 [2][5][3][6]
Under the Net Iris Murdoch 1954 [1][2][5]
Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 [1][2][3][6]
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966 [1][2][5]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (October 16, 2005). "ALL-TIME 100 Novels". Time. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 "100 Best Novels". The Modern Library. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 "The 100 best novels written in English: the full list". The Guardian. August 17, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 4.26 4.27 4.28 4.29 4.30 4.31 4.32 4.33 Meyer, Dick (May 7, 2009). "100 Years, 100 Novels, One List". NPR.
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 "100 novels everyone should read". Telegraph. January 16, 2009. Archived from the original on January 21, 2009. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (1999)[incomplete short citation]
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