The Rankings

Here's how I've ranked the books I've read from Time's list of 100 All-Time Novels. Of course it's difficult to compare a book you just read with a book you read two years ago, but I've done it anyway.

  1. The Sot-Weed Factor
  2. Lolita
  3. Gone with the Wind
  4. Native Son
  5. The Grapes of Wrath
  6. I, Claudius
  7. Lucky Jim
  8. American Pastoral
  9. The French Lieutenant's Woman
  10. Revolutionary Road
  11. The Berlin Stories
  12. The Corrections
  13. Rabbit, Run
  14. Animal Farm
  15. Portnoy's Complaint
  16. Under the Net
  17. Brideshead Revisited
  18. A Handful of Dust
  19. White Teeth
  20. The Sheltering Sky
  21. All the King's Men
  22. Death of the Heart
  23. The Great Gatsby
  24. Midnight's Children
  25. The Heart of the Matter
  26. The Blind Assassin
  27. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  28. Money
  29. The Sun Also Rises
  30. Catch-22
  31. Appointment in Samarra
  32. The Catcher in the Rye
  33. Atonement
  34. The Assistant
  35. A House for Mr. Biswas
  36. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  37. The Painted Bird
  38. Slaughterhouse-Five
  39. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  40. The Man Who Loved Children
  41. The Moviegoer
  42. On the Road
  43. The Sportswriter
  44. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  45. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  46. Their Eyes Were Watching God
  47. Play it as it Lays
  48. Deliverance
  49. Wide Sargasso Sea
  50. Herzog
  51. The Power and the Glory
  52. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
  53. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  54. Things Fall Apart
  55. Ubik
  56. The Big Sleep
  57. Ragtime
  58. Housekeeping
  59. Go Tell It on the Mountain
  60. Pale Fire 
  61. Death Comes for the Archbishop
  62. Snow Crash
  63. The Adventures of Augie March
  64. Tropic of Cancer
  65. Under the Volcano
  66. The Crying of Lot 49
  67. Falconer
  68. Possession
  69. Red Harvest
  70. The Day of the Locust
  71. Invisible Man
  72. The Golden Notebook
  73. Light in August
  74. The Sound and the Fury
  75. Beloved
  76. Mrs. Dalloway
  77. Blood Meridian
  78. Lord of the Rings
  79. Infinite Jest
  80. To the Lighthouse
  81. The Recognitions
  82. Naked Lunch
  83. Gravity's Rainbow


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