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Time's Top 100 Novels Reading Challenge

Robert started 101 Books as a way to document his goal of reading Time Magazine's Top 100 Novels (since 1923).  I decided this was a worthwhile reading challenge to add to my perpetual challenges.  I will be adding this challenge to my Perpetual Reading Challenges page.  Out of the 100 novels, I have already read 18.  Here's the complete list:

  • The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow
  • All the King’s Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
  • American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth
  • An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
  • Animal Farm (1946) by George Orwell
  • Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O’Hara
  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume
  • The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud
  • At Swim-Two-Birds (1938) Flann O’ Brien
  • Atonement (2002) by Ian McEwan
  • Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
  • The Berlin Stories (1946) by Christopher Isherwood
  • The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
  • The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
  • Blood Meridian (1986) by Cormac McCarthy
  • Brideshead Revisited (1946) by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thornton Wilder
  • Call it Sleep (1935) by Henry Roth
  • Catch 22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
  • The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
  • A Clockwork Orange (1963) by Anthony Burgess
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) by William Styron
  • The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
  • The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
  • A Dance to the Music of Time (1951) by Anthony Powell
  • The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
  • A Death in the Family (1958) by James Agee
  • The Death of the Heart (1958) by Elizabeth Bowen
  • Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey
  • Dog Soldiers (1974) by Robert Stone
  • Falconer (1977) by John Cheever
  • The French Lieutenant’s (1969) by John Fowles
  • The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
  • Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
  • Gone With The Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
  • Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
  • The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A Handful of Dust (1935) by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
  • The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene
  • Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
  • Housekeeping (1981) by Marilynne Robinson
  • A House for Mr. Biswas (1962) by V.S. Naipaul
  • I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
  • Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
  • Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
  • Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
  • The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis
  • Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lord of the Flies (1955) by William Golding
  • The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Loving (1945) by Henry Green
  • Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
  • The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead
  • Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
  • Money (1984) by Martin Amis
  • The Moviegoer (1964) by Walker Percy
  • Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
  • Naked Lunch (1959) by William Burroughs
  • Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
  • Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
  • Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 1984 (1948) by George Orwell
  • On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
  • The Painted Bird (1965) by Jerzy Kosinski
  • Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
  • A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
  • Play It As It Lays (1970) by Joan Didion
  • Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth
  • Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
  • The Power and the Glory (1939) by Graham Greene
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
  • Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
  • Ragtime (1975) E.L. Doctorow
  • The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
  • Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
  • Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates
  • The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles
  • Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
  • The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
  • The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
  • The Sportswriter (1986) by Richard Ford
  • The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1964) by John Le Carre
  • The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Things Fall Apart (1959) by Chinua Achebe
  • To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
  • To The Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
  • Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
  • Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick
  • Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch
  • Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcom Lowry
  • Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  • White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
  • White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
  • Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Jean Rhys