Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.
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The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
Falconer
John Cheever
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3)
Anthony Powell
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
Loving
Henry Green
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
Richard Ford
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
A Death in the Family
James Agee
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Herzog
Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Deliverance
James Dickey
Money
Martin Amis
Appointment in Samara
John O'Hara
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
Henry Miller
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
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