The All-TIME 100 Novels

You can never go wrong picking a next read from this list.

As compiled by the Time Magazine, this list is on top of my to-be-read shelf.

The All-TIME 100 Novels (100 Best English Language Novels since 1923)

1. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow  (synopsis) 
2. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren  (synopsis) 
3. American Pastoral - Philip Roth  (synopsis) 
4. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser  (synopsis) 
5. Animal Farm - George Orwell  (synopsis) 
6. Appointment in Samara - John O'Hara  (synopsis) 
7. Are You There God? It's me. Margaret  (synopsis) 
8. The Assistant - Bernard Malamud  (synopsis)
9. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien  (synopsis) 
10. Atonement - Ian McEwan  (synopsis) 
11. Beloved - Toni Morrison  (synopsis) 
12. The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood  (synopsis)  
13. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler  (synopsis) 
14. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood  (synopsis) 
15. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy  (synopsis) 
16. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh  (synopsis) 
17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder  (synopsis) 
18. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth  (synopsis) 
19. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller  (synopsis) 
20. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger  (synopsis) 
21. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (synopsis) 
22. The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron  (synopsis) 
23. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen  (synopsis) 
24. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon  (synopsis) 
25. A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell   (synopsis) 
26. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West (synopsis) 
27. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Carther  (synopsis) 
28. A Death in the Family - James Agee  (synopsis) 
29. The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen  (synopsis) 
30. Deliverance - James Dickey  (synopsis) 
31. Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone  (synopsis) 
32. Falconer - John Cheever  (synopsis) 
33. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles  (synopsis) 
34. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing  (synopsis) 
35. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin  (synopsis) 
36. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell  (synopsis) 
37. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck  (synopsis) 
38. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon  (synopsis) 
39. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald  (synopsis) 
40. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh  (synopsis) 
41. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers  (synopsis) 
42. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene  (synopsis) 
43. Herzog - Saul Bellow  (synopsis) 
44. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson  (synopsis) 
45. A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipul  (synopsis) 
46. I, Claudius - Robert Graves  (synopsis) 
47. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace  (synopsis) 
48. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison  (synopsis) 
49. Light in August - William Faulkner  (synopsis) 
50. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis  (synopsis) 
51. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov  (synopsis) 
52. Lord of the Flies - William Golding  (synopsis) 
53. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien  (synopsis) 
54. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy  (synopsis) 
55. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis  (synopsis) 
56. The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead  (synopsis) 
57. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie  (synopsis) 
58. Money - Martin Amis  (synopsis) 
59. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf  (synopsis) 
60. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs  (synopsis) 
61. Native Son - Richard Wright  (synopsis) 
62. Neuromancer - William Gibson  (synopsis) 
63. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro  (synopsis) 
64. 1984 - George Orwell  (synopsis) 
65. On the Road - Jack Kerouac  (synopsis) 
66. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kessey  (synopsis) 
67. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski  (synopsis) 
68. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov  (synopsis) 
69. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster  (synopsis) 
70. Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion  (synopsis) 
71. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth  (synopsis) 
72. Possession - A.S. Byatt  (synopsis) 
73. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene  (synopsis) 
74. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark  (synopsis) 
75. Rabbit, Run - John Updike  (synopsis) 
76. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow  (synopsis) 
77. The Recognitions - William Gaddis  (synopsis) 
78. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett  (synopsis) 
79. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates  (synopsis) 
80. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles  (synopsis) 
81. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut  (synopsis) 
82. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson  (synopsis) 
83. The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth  (synopsis) 
84. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner  (synopsis) 
85. The Sportswriter - Richard Ford  (synopsis) 
86. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John LeCarre  (synopsis) 
87. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway  (synopsis) 
88. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston  (synopsis) 
89. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe  (synopsis) 
90. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee  (synopsis) 
91. The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf  (synopsis) 
92. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller  (synopsis) 
93. Ubik - Philip K. Dick  (synopsis) 
94. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch  (synopsis) 
95. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry  (synopsis) 
96. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons  (synopsis) 
97. Whitenoise - Don Delillo  (synopsis) 
98. White Teeth - Zadie Smith  (synopsis) 
99. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys  (synopsis)