According to Time Magazine
The 100 greatest contemporary novels.
How many have you read? Mine are italicized.
The Adventures of Augie March -Saul Bellow
All the King's Men -Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral -Philip Roth
An American Tragedy -Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm -George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra -John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -Judy Blume
The Assistant -Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds -Flann O'Brien
Atonement -Ian McEwan
Beloved -Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories -Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep -Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin -Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian -Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited -Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey -Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep -Henry Roth
Catch-22 -Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye -J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange -Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner -William Styron
The Corrections -Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 -Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time -Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust -Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop -Willa Cather
A Death in the Family -James Agee
The Death of the Heart -Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance -James Dickey
Dog Soldiers -Robert Stone
Falconer -John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman -John Fowles
The Golden Notebook -Doris Lessig
Go Tell it on the Mountain -James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind -Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath -John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow -Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby -F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust -Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter -Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter -Graham Greene
Herzog -Saul Bellow
Housekeeping -Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas -V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius -Robert Graves
Infinite Jest -David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man -Ralph Ellison
Light in August -William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe -C.S. Lewis
Lolita -Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies -William Golding
The Lord of the Rings -J.R.R. Tolkein
Loving -Henry Green
Lucky Jim -Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children -Christina Stead
Midnight's Children -Salman Rushdie
Money -Martin Amis
The Moviegoer -Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway -Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch -William Burroughs
Native Son -Richard Wright
Neuromancer -William Gibson
Never Let Me Go -Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 -George Orwell
On the Road -Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird -Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire -Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India -E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays -Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint -Philip Roth
Posession -A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory -Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run -John Updike
Ragtime -E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions -William Gaddis
Red Harvest -Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road -Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky -Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five -Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash -Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor -John Barth
The Sound and the Fury -William Faulkner
The Sportswriter -Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold -John LeCarre
The Sun Also Rises -Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart -Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird -Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse -Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer -Henry Miller
Ubik -Philip K. Dick
Under the Net -Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano -Malcolm Lowrey
Watchmen -Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise -Don DeLillo
White Teeth -Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea -Jean Rhys
So out of the ones I haven't read, what do I absolutely need to read??
How many have you read? Mine are italicized.
The Adventures of Augie March -Saul Bellow
All the King's Men -Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral -Philip Roth
An American Tragedy -Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm -George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra -John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -Judy Blume
The Assistant -Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds -Flann O'Brien
Atonement -Ian McEwan
Beloved -Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories -Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep -Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin -Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian -Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited -Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey -Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep -Henry Roth
Catch-22 -Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye -J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange -Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner -William Styron
The Corrections -Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 -Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time -Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust -Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop -Willa Cather
A Death in the Family -James Agee
The Death of the Heart -Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance -James Dickey
Dog Soldiers -Robert Stone
Falconer -John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman -John Fowles
The Golden Notebook -Doris Lessig
Go Tell it on the Mountain -James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind -Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath -John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow -Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby -F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust -Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter -Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter -Graham Greene
Herzog -Saul Bellow
Housekeeping -Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas -V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius -Robert Graves
Infinite Jest -David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man -Ralph Ellison
Light in August -William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe -C.S. Lewis
Lolita -Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies -William Golding
The Lord of the Rings -J.R.R. Tolkein
Loving -Henry Green
Lucky Jim -Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children -Christina Stead
Midnight's Children -Salman Rushdie
Money -Martin Amis
The Moviegoer -Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway -Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch -William Burroughs
Native Son -Richard Wright
Neuromancer -William Gibson
Never Let Me Go -Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 -George Orwell
On the Road -Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird -Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire -Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India -E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays -Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint -Philip Roth
Posession -A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory -Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run -John Updike
Ragtime -E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions -William Gaddis
Red Harvest -Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road -Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky -Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five -Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash -Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor -John Barth
The Sound and the Fury -William Faulkner
The Sportswriter -Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold -John LeCarre
The Sun Also Rises -Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart -Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird -Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse -Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer -Henry Miller
Ubik -Philip K. Dick
Under the Net -Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano -Malcolm Lowrey
Watchmen -Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise -Don DeLillo
White Teeth -Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea -Jean Rhys
So out of the ones I haven't read, what do I absolutely need to read??