List of English-language books considered the best explained

This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.

List

data-sort-value="Adventures of Augie March"	The Adventures of Augie March		1953
All The King's Men		1946
Animal Farm		1945
Appointment in Samarra		1934
Atonement		2001
Beloved		1987
data-sort-value="Big Sleep"	The Big Sleep		1939
Catch-22		1961
data-sort-value="Catcher in the Rye"	The Catcher In The Rye		1951
data-sort-value="Clockwork Orange"	A Clockwork Orange		1963
data-sort-value="Dance to the Music of Time"	A Dance to the Music of Time		1951-75
data-sort-value="Day of the Locust"	The Day of the Locust		1939
Deliverance		1970
data-sort-value="Golden Notebook"	The Golden Notebook		1962
Go Tell It on the Mountain		1953
data-sort-value="Grapes of Wrath"	The Grapes of Wrath		1939
data-sort-value="Great Gatsby"	The Great Gatsby		1925
Heart of Darkness		1899
Invisible Man		1952
Light in August		1932
Lolita		1955
Lord of the Flies		1954
data-sort-value="Lord of the Rings"	The Lord of the Rings		1954
data-sort-value="Moviegoer"	The Moviegoer		1961
Lucky Jim		1954
Midnight's Children		1981
Mrs. Dalloway		1925
Nineteen Eighty-Four		1949
On The Road		1957
data-sort-value="Passage to India"	A Passage to India		1924
Portnoy's Complaint		1969
data-sort-value="Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie		1961
Scoop		1938
Sons and Lovers		1913
data-sort-value="Sound and the Fury"	The Sound and the Fury		1929
data-sort-value="Sun Also Rises"	The Sun Also Rises		1926
Things Fall Apart		1958
To Kill a Mockingbird		1960
To the Lighthouse		1927
Ulysses		1922
Under the Net		1954
Wide Sargasso Sea		1966

Publications

• Times List of the 100 Best Novels (2005)^[1]
• NPR's 100 Years, 100 Novels (2009)^[2] (2)
• Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1998)^[3]
• The Daily Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read^[4]
• The Guardians 100 Best Novels Written in English (2015)^[5]
• Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (1999)^[6]

See also

• • List of top book lists
• List of literary awards

Notes and References

1. ALL-TIME 100 Novels . Grossman . Lev . Lev Grossman . Lacayo . Richard . Time . October 16, 2005 . February 21, 2024 .
2. Web site: Dick . Meyer. 100 Years, 100 Novels, One List . May 7, 2009. NPR.
3. Web site: 100 Best Novels . The Modern Library . February 21, 2024 .
4. Web site: January 16, 2009 . 100 novels everyone should read . deviated . https://web.archive.org/web/20090121144354/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html . January 21, 2009 . November 29, 2023 . Telegraph.
5. Web site: The 100 best novels written in English: the full list . The Guardian . August 17, 2015 . February 21, 2024 .
6. [Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century ]