Time Magazine’s compilation of the 100 best novels published since 1923.
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last updated January, 2026
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
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 Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
Deliverance
James Dickey
Money
Martin Amis
Appointment in Samarra
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
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
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