Times Top 100

#2

A Passage to India

1901 • 194 Readers • 376 pages 3.4

#3

On the Road

Duluoz Legend

1955 • 779 Readers • 254 pages 3.3

#4

Possession

1990 • 189 Readers • 555 pages 4

#5

A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

#1-3 of 12 in A Dance to the Music of Time

1955 • 52 Readers • 718 pages 4

#6

Falconer

1977 • 22 Readers • 160 pages 3.3

#7

The Death of the Heart

1938 • 53 Readers • 418 pages 3.8

#8

Dog Soldiers

1974 • 11 Readers • 342 pages 2.5

#9

Housekeeping

1980 • 150 Readers • 219 pages 4

#10

The Man Who Loved Children

1940 • 22 Readers • 527 pages 5

#11

The Sot-Weed Factor

1960 • 61 Readers • 756 pages 4.2

#12

The Adventures of Augie March

1953 • 64 Readers • 386 pages 4

#13

The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House

2002 • 38 Readers • 940 pages 3.4

#14

Call It Sleep

1934 • 23 Readers • 480 pages 3.3

#15

At Swim Two Birds

1939 • 39 Readers • 316 pages 3.9

#16

Herzog

107 Readers 3.4

#17

A Handful of Dust

1934 • 66 Readers • 240 pages 4

#18

The Recognitions

1955 • 122 Readers • 956 pages 4.5

#19

A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text

2007 • 50 Readers • 615 pages 4.1

#20

The Berlin Stories

1945 • 34 Readers • 191 pages 4.1

#21

The Sportswriter

#1 of 5 in Frank Bascombe

1986 • 52 Readers • 375 pages 3.6

#22

Under the net

1954 • 37 Readers • 252 pages 3.4

#23

Loving

1945 • 16 Readers • 224 pages 4.5

#24

The Assistant

1957 • 9 Readers • 337 pages

#25

Money

1984 • 88 Readers • 454 pages 3.3

#26

The Confessions of Nat Turner

1920 • 34 Readers • 454 pages 2.5

#27

Tropic of Cancer

#1 of 3 in Tropic

1934 • 192 Readers • 318 pages 3.2

#28

Appointment in Samarra

1934 • 50 Readers 4.2

#29

Deliverance

1972 • 73 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

#30

The Day of the Locust

1939 • 69 Readers • 118 pages 3.5

#31

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1953 • 258 Readers • 184 pages 4

#32

Pale Fire

1945 • 379 Readers • 282 pages 4.3

#33

The Moviegoer

1961 • 107 Readers • 242 pages 3.4

#34

The Heart of the Matter

2004 • 54 Readers • 272 pages 3.8

#35

The Golden Notebook

1999 • 120 Readers • 676 pages 4

#36

Lucky Jim

1954 • 96 Readers • 276 pages 3.4

#37

Ubik

1969 • 571 Readers • 241 pages 4

#38

Rabbit, Run

#1 of 5 in Rabbit Angstrom

1960 • 125 Readers • 337 pages 3.6

#39

Red Harvest

#1 of 3 in The Continental Op

1929 • 98 Readers • 224 pages 3.9

#40

White Teeth

2001 • 346 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

#41

Under the Volcano

1947 • 101 Readers • 363 pages 3.7

#42

The Painted Bird

78 Readers 3.8

#43

Play It as It Lays

1970 • 250 Readers • 227 pages 3.7

#44

A House for Mr Biswas

1961 • 40 Readers • 564 pages 4

#45

Gravity's Rainbow

1973 • 472 Readers • 760 pages 4.1

#46

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 • 286 Readers • 189 pages 3.4

#47

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1927 • 73 Readers 3.8

#48

Neuromancer

#1 of 3 in Sprawl

1984 • 1,788 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

#49

American Pastoral

#6 of 9 in Complete Nathan Zuckerman

1997 • 200 Readers • 434 pages 3.8

#50

The Corrections

2001 • 330 Readers • 662 pages 3.8

#51

The Crying of Lot 49

1965 • 369 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

#52

Portnoy's Complaint

1969 • 117 Readers • 296 pages 3.5

#53

Death Comes for the Archbishop

1927 • 78 Readers • 306 pages 4.1

#54

The Power and the Glory

1940 • 114 Readers • 225 pages 3.9

#55

Brideshead Revisited

1930 • 301 Readers • 351 pages 3.8

#56

Midnight's Children

1981 • 449 Readers • 640 pages 4

#57

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

1961 • 135 Readers • 164 pages 3.6

#58

Revolutionary Road

1961 • 140 Readers 4.2

#59

Blood Meridian

1985 • 1,012 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

#60

White Noise

1985 • 427 Readers • 337 pages 3.8

#61

Infinite Jest

1996 • 883 Readers • 1,079 pages 4.3

#62

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,493 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

#63

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

#3 of 10 in George Smiley

1963 • 329 Readers • 301 pages 4

#64

Naked Lunch

1959 • 321 Readers • 292 pages 3.1

#65

Light In August

1932 • 123 Readers • 480 pages 3.7

#66

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1940 • 245 Readers • 368 pages 3.7

#67

The French lieutenant's woman

1969 • 75 Readers • 445 pages 3.9

#68

Ragtime

1975 • 115 Readers • 369 pages 3.8

#69

To the Lighthouse

1925 • 602 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#70

Native Son

1940 • 215 Readers • 624 pages 4

#71

The Blind Assassin

2000 • 341 Readers • 650 pages 4

#72

All the King's Men

1946 • 148 Readers • 669 pages 4

#73

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 453 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#74

I, Claudius

#1 of 2 in Claudius

1934 • 212 Readers • 432 pages 4.1

#75

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937 • 611 Readers • 260 pages 3.9

#76

The Sun Also Rises

1926 • 695 Readers • 264 pages 3.6

#77

Mrs Dalloway

1925 • 607 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

#78

Beloved

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

1987 • 879 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

#79

Things Fall Apart

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

1958 • 694 Readers • 185 pages 3.7

#80

Atonement

2001 • 621 Readers • 144 pages 3.9

#81

Never Let Me Go

2000 • 1,785 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

#82

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

1970 • 229 Readers • 124 pages 3.7

#83

A Clockwork Orange

1962 • 1,422 Readers • 149 pages 3.9

#84

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 1,008 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

#85

Slaughterhouse 5

Critical Insights

1968 • 2,384 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

#86

Gone with the Wind

#1 of 1 in Gone with the Wind

196 • 715 Readers • 976 pages 4

#87

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

#1 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

1950 • 2,036 Readers • 146 pages 4

#88

The Lord of the Rings

#1-3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 1,570 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

#89

Watchmen

#1 of 12 in Watchmen

1987 • 1,305 Readers • 415 pages 4.4

#90

Invisible Man

1952 • 537 Readers • 610 pages 3.8

#91

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 3,661 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

#92

1984

1949 • 5,782 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

#93

The Catcher in the Rye

1951 • 2,942 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

#94

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 3,238 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

#95

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,238 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

#96

Lolita

1954 • 1,586 Readers • 395 pages 3.9

#97

An American Tragedy

#140 of 28 in LOA

1900 • 91 Readers • 502 pages 3.8

#98

Animal Farm

1945 • 4,078 Readers • 122 pages 4

#99

Lord of the Flies

1954 • 2,736 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

#100

Catch-22

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

1961 • 1,611 Readers • 466 pages 4

#101

The Big Sleep

#1 of 8 in Philip Marlowe

1939 • 398 Readers • 155 pages 3.7