As posted by TIME magazine, we present you with what TIME critics, Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo, consider to be the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to now.
Some of them are on the current Book Club list (these are highlighted), and we implore you to suggest more if you have one you're dying to share with us literature-loving lumberjacks.
{We've also included a link to out Book Club listed books to the BookDepository, where the prices are fabulous and it's free-shipping WORLDWIDE!}
Read on!
1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
A Death in the Family by James Agee
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Deliverance by James Dickey
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Falconer by John Cheever
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Light in August by William Faulkner
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Loving by Henry Green
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Money by Martin Amis
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Native Son by Richard Wright
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
