Reading list: Leafmarks Community Challenge: Time 100 (100 best English-language novels published since 1923 (the

Created by: Debbie's Spurts

Echoing the defunct Leafmarks Community Challenge for: "In 2010, TIME released their list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923 (the beginning of TIME). How many of these carefully-selected titles have you read? Challenge yourself to read through this list; finally read those books you were always meaning to, and discover titles that you may not have considered before."

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Books: 100

1984

by F.M. Dumar, George Orwell

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A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

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By Anthony Powell - A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement (1st Edition) (5.1.1995)

by Anthony Powell

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A Death in the Family

by James Agee

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A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

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A House for Mr Biswas

by V.S. Naipaul

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All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

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American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

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An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser, Richard R. Lingeman

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10.

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

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11.

A Passage To India

by E.M. Forster, Martin Sherman

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12.

Appointment in Samarra

by John O'Hara

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13.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

by Judy Blume

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14.

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

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15.

At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien

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16.

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

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17.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

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18.

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

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19.

Call it Sleep

by Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin, Hana Wirth-Nesher

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20.

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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21.

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

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22.

Deliverance (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

by James Dickey

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23.

Dog Soldiers

by Robert Stone

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24.

Falconer

by John Cheever

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25.

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

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26.

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

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27.

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

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28.

Herzog

by Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth

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29.

Housekeeping

by Marilynne Robinson

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30.

I, Claudius

by Robert Graves

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31.

Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace

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32.

Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

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33.

Light in August (The Corrected Text)

by William Faulkner

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34.

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov, Craig Raine

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35.

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

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36.

Loving

by Henry Green

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37.

Lucky Jim

by Kingsley Amis

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38.

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

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39.

Money

by Martin Amis

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40.

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

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41.

Naked Lunch

by William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Barry Miles

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42.

Native Son

by Richard Wright

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43.

Neuromancer

by William Gibson

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44.

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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45.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

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46.

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

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47.

Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

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48.

Play It as It Lays

by Joan Didion, David Thomson

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49.

Portnoy's Complaint

by Philip Roth

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50.

Possession

by A.S. Byatt

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51.

Rabbit, Run

by John Updike

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52.

Ragtime: A Novel

by E.L. Doctorow

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53.

Red Harvest

by Dashiell Hammett

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54.

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

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55.

The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles

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56.

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

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57.

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

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58.

The Sportswriter

by Richard Ford

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59.

The Adventures of Augie March

by Saul Bellow, Christopher Hitchens

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60.

The Assistant

by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Rosen

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61.

The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye ... - Christopher Isherwood

The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin

by Christopher Isherwood

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62.

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

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63.

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood, Margaret Atwood

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64.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

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65.

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

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66.

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

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67.

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

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68.

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

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69.

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

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70.

The Death of the Heart

by Elizabeth Bowen

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71.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

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72.

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

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73.

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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74.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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75.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

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76.

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

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77.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

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78.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

by C.S. Lewis

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79.

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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80.

The Man Who Loved Children

by Christina Stead, Randall Jarrell

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81.

The Moviegoer

by Walker Percy

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82.

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński

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83.

The Power and the Glory

by John Updike, Graham Greene

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84.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

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85.

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis, William H. Gass

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86.

The Sot-Weed Factor

by John Barth

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87.

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

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88.

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

by John le Carré

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89.

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

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90.

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

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91.

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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92.

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

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93.

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

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94.

Ubik

by Philip K. Dick

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95.

Under the Net

by Iris Murdoch

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96.

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

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97.

Watchmen

by Dave Gibbons, John Higgins, Alan Moore

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98.

White Noise

by Don DeLillo

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99.

White Teeth

by Zadie Smith

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100.

Wide Sargasso Sea

by Jean Rhys

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