TIME's 100 Best English-Language Novels →
I’ve read roughly 20% of the list. Not bad, but I’ve got my work cut out for me this summer. Some great contemporary picks on here.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (kind of)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (great pick)
- 1984 by George Orwell
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (not a great pick)
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbon
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
