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 from the following publications:

List

Name Author Year List
All The King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 1, 2, 3
Animal Farm 1984 George Orwell 1945 1, 2, 3
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara 1934 1, 2, 3
Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 1, 2, 4
Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 1, 2, 4, 5
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 1, 2, 4, 6
Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 1, 2, 4
The Catcher In The Rye J.D. Salinger 1951 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 1951-75 1, 2, 4
The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939 1, 2, 3
Deliverance James Dickey 1970 1, 2, 3
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 1962 1, 2, 3, 5
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953 1, 3, 4
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 2, 3, 4
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 1, 3, 5
Light in August William Faulkner 1932 1, 2, 3
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 1, 2, 3
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien 1954 1, 4, 6
The Moviegoer Walker Percy 1961 1, 2, 3
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 1, 2, 4
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 1, 4, 5
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
On The Road Jack Kerouac 1957 1, 3, 4, 6
A Passage To India E.M. Forster 1924 1, 2, 3, 4
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 1, 2, 3
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961 1, 3, 4
Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938 2, 3, 4
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence 1913 2, 3, 5
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 1, 3, 5, 6
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 1, 2, 3
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 1, 4, 5
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 1, 2, 4
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 1, 2, 3, 5
Ulysses James Joyce 1922 3, 4, 5, 6
Under the Net Iris Murdoch 1954 1, 3, 4
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966 1, 3, 4

See also

References

  1. ↑ Meyer, Dick (May 7, 2009). "100 Years, 100 Novels, One List". NPR.
  2. ↑ "100 novels everyone should read". Telegraph. 2009-01-16. Archived from the original on 2009-01-21. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
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