Times Top 100

#2

A Passage to India

1901 • 185 Readers • 376 pages 3.4

#3

On the Road

1955 • 747 Readers • 254 pages 3.3

#4

Possession

1990 • 180 Readers • 555 pages 4

#5

A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

1955 • 52 Readers • 718 pages 4

#6

Falconer

1977 • 22 Readers • 160 pages 3.3

#7

The Death of the Heart

1938 • 49 Readers • 418 pages 4.3

#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 • 46 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 • 64 Readers • 240 pages 4

#18

The Recognitions

1955 • 111 Readers • 956 pages 4.5

#19

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

2007 • 33 Readers • 615 pages 4.5

#20

The Berlin Stories

1945 • 34 Readers • 191 pages 4.1

#21

The Sportswriter

1986 • 45 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 • 23 Readers • 454 pages 2.5

#27

Tropic of Cancer

1934 • 183 Readers • 318 pages 3.3

#28

Appointment in Samarra

1934 • 50 Readers 4.2

#29

Deliverance

66 Readers 4.1

#30

The Day of the Locust

1939 • 47 Readers • 160 pages 3.3

#31

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1953 • 242 Readers • 184 pages 3.9

#32

Pale Fire

1945 • 354 Readers • 282 pages 4.3

#33

The Moviegoer

1961 • 83 Readers • 242 pages 3.5

#34

The Heart of the Matter

2004 • 54 Readers • 272 pages 3.8

#35

The Golden Notebook

1999 • 115 Readers • 676 pages 3.9

#36

Lucky Jim

1954 • 90 Readers • 276 pages 3.4

#37

Ubik

1969 • 541 Readers • 241 pages 4

#38

Rabbit, Run

1960 • 125 Readers • 337 pages 3.6

#39

Red Harvest

1929 • 98 Readers • 224 pages 3.9

#40

White Teeth

2001 • 329 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

#41

Under the Volcano

1947 • 99 Readers • 363 pages 3.7

#42

The Painted Bird

52 Readers 4.2

#43

Play It as It Lays

1970 • 237 Readers • 227 pages 3.8

#44

A House for Mr Biswas

1961 • 40 Readers • 564 pages 4

#45

Gravity's Rainbow

1973 • 453 Readers • 760 pages 4.2

#46

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 • 272 Readers • 189 pages 3.4

#47

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1927 • 71 Readers 3.8

#48

Neuromancer

1984 • 1,709 Readers • 271 pages 3.9

#49

American Pastoral

1997 • 190 Readers • 434 pages 3.8

#50

The Corrections

2001 • 305 Readers • 662 pages 3.8

#51

The Crying of Lot 49

1965 • 357 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 • 111 Readers • 225 pages 3.8

#55

Brideshead Revisited

1930 • 296 Readers • 351 pages 3.8

#56

Midnight's Children

1981 • 428 Readers • 640 pages 4

#57

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

1961 • 135 Readers • 164 pages 3.6

#58

Revolutionary Road

1961 • 136 Readers 4.3

#59

Blood Meridian

1985 • 970 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

#60

White Noise

1985 • 407 Readers • 337 pages 3.8

#61

Infinite Jest

1996 • 840 Readers • 1,079 pages 4.2

#62

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,425 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

#63

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

1963 • 313 Readers • 301 pages 4.1

#64

Naked Lunch

1959 • 309 Readers • 292 pages 3.1

#65

Light In August

1932 • 123 Readers • 480 pages 3.7

#66

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1940 • 232 Readers • 368 pages 3.7

#67

The French lieutenant's woman

1969 • 75 Readers • 445 pages 3.9

#68

Ragtime

1975 • 100 Readers • 262 pages 3.8

#69

To the Lighthouse

1925 • 579 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#70

Native Son

1940 • 204 Readers • 624 pages 4

#71

The Blind Assassin

2000 • 323 Readers • 650 pages 4

#72

All the King's Men

1946 • 145 Readers • 669 pages 4.1

#73

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 428 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#74

I, Claudius

1934 • 206 Readers • 432 pages 4.1

#75

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937 • 582 Readers • 260 pages 3.9

#76

The Sun Also Rises

1926 • 660 Readers • 264 pages 3.6

#77

Mrs Dalloway

1925 • 578 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

#78

Beloved

1987 • 839 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

#79

Things Fall Apart

1958 • 662 Readers • 185 pages 3.7

#80

Atonement

2001 • 603 Readers • 144 pages 3.9

#81

Never Let Me Go

2000 • 1,695 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

#82

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

1970 • 223 Readers • 124 pages 3.7

#83

A Clockwork Orange

1962 • 1,360 Readers • 149 pages 3.9

#84

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 964 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

#85

Slaughterhouse 5

1968 • 2,282 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

#86

Gone with the Wind

196 • 691 Readers • 976 pages 4

#87

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

1950 • 1,938 Readers • 146 pages 4

#88

The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 1,495 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

#89

Watchmen

1987 • 1,245 Readers • 415 pages 4.4

#90

Invisible Man

503 Readers 3.8

#91

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 3,474 Readers • 309 pages 4.1

#92

1984

1949 • 5,483 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

#93

The Catcher in the Rye

1951 • 2,803 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

#94

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 3,086 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

#95

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,174 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

#96

Lolita

1954 • 1,506 Readers • 395 pages 3.9

#97

An American Tragedy

1900 • 91 Readers • 502 pages 3.8

#98

Animal Farm

1945 • 3,892 Readers • 122 pages 4

#99

Lord of the Flies

1854 • 2,607 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

#100

Catch-22

1961 • 1,543 Readers • 466 pages 4

#101

The Big Sleep

1939 • 384 Readers • 155 pages 3.7