--- title: "Advent — Top 100 Books" description: "Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923‚ the beginning of TIME. And, I'd read whatever Lev tells me to read. I've bolded the ones I..." url: https://somisguided.com/2013/12/19/advent-top-100-books/ date: 2013-12-19 modified: 2013-12-19 author: "Monique" type: post lang: en --- # Advent — Top 100 Books Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923‚ the beginning of TIME. And, I’d read whatever Lev tells me to read. I’ve bolded the ones I have read below. I guess this is my new “to-read” list. See the full article for links and info on how the list was created. (http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/all/) A – B The Adventures of Augie March All the King’s Men American Pastoral An American Tragedy **Animal Farm** Appointment in Samarra **Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret** The Assistant At Swim-Two-Birds **Atonement Beloved** The Berlin Stories **The Big Sleep The Blind Assassin** Blood Meridian **Brideshead Revisited** The Bridge of San Luis Rey C – D Call It Sleep **Catch-22 The Catcher in the Rye A Clockwork Orange** The Confessions of Nat Turner The Corrections **The Crying of Lot 49** A Dance to the Music of Time The Day of the Locust Death Comes for the Archbishop A Death in the Family The Death of the Heart Deliverance Dog Soldiers F – G Falconer **The French Lieutenant’s Woman The Golden Notebook** Go Tell it on the Mountain **Gone With the Wind The Grapes of Wrath** Gravity’s Rainbow **The Great Gatsby** H – I A Handful of Dust The Heart is A Lonely Hunter The Heart of the Matter Herzog Housekeeping A House for Mr. Biswas **I, Claudius** Infinite Jest Invisible Man L – N Light in August **The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Lolita Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Loving** The Moviegoer Lucky Jim The Man Who Loved Children **Midnight’s Children Money Mrs. Dalloway** Naked Lunch Native Son Neuromancer Never Let Me Go **1984** O – R **On the Road One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest** The Painted Bird Pale Fire A Passage to India Play It As It Lays Portnoy’s Complaint Possession The Power and the Glory The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Rabbit, Run Ragtime The Recognitions Red Harvest Revolutionary Road S – T The Sheltering Sky Slaughterhouse Five Snow Crash The Sot-Weed Factor The Sound and the Fury **The Sportswriter The Spy Who Came in From the Cold The Sun Also Rises** Their Eyes Were Watching God Things Fall Apart **To Kill a Mockingbird** To the Lighthouse **Tropic of Cancer** U – W Ubik Under the Net Under the Volcano Watchmen White Noise White Teeth Wide Sargasso Sea There are a couple of letters there that need attention. Read more: TIME.com http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/all/#ixzz2nsdhtOyf