Najlepsze książki według tygodnika TIME

Jak powstała ta lista? Krytycy Lev Grossman i Richard Lacayo wybrali 100 najlepszych powieści w języku angielskim opublikowanych od 1923 roku, czyli początku tygodnika TIME:

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

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