This is the full list of Time Magazine‘s 100 best English language books since the magazine’s inception in 1923. Books that I’ve read and reviewed can be checked out by clicking the links. Note that for the Resolution Project, I’m only reading things I haven’t read before, ones that I read before 2011 are marked as such. How many have you read?

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- The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow (January 2011)
- All the King’s Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren (January 2011)
- American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth (January 2011)
- An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser (March 2011)
- Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell (read before 2011)
- Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O’Hara (January 2011)
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume (January 2011)
- The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud (January-February 2011)
- At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O’Brien (February 2011)
- Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan (read before 2011)
- Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison (February 2011)
- The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood (March 2011)
- The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler (read before 2011)
- The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood (March 2011)
- Blood Meridian (1985), by Cormac McCarthy (July-August 2011)
- Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh (March 2011)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton Wilder (March-April 2011)
C – D
- Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth (September 2011)
- Catch-22 (1961), by Joseph Heller (read before 2011)
- The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J.D. Salinger (read before 2011)
- A Clockwork Orange (1963), by Anthony Burgess (April 2011)
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron (April 2011)
- The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen (April 2011)
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon (read before 2011)
- A Dance to the Music of Time – 1st Movement (1951), by Anthony Powell (June 2011) Book 4 (June 2012) Book 5 (June 2012) Book 6 (July 2012)
- The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West (April 2011)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather (May 2011)
- A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee (May 2011)
- The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen (January – February 2012)
- Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey (May 2011)
- Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert Stone (October 2011)
F – G
- Falconer (1977), by John Cheever (May 2011)
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), by John Fowles (May-June 2011)
- The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing (June 2011)
- Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin (July 2011)
- Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell (Part 2) (September-October 2011)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1939), by John Steinbeck (September 2011)
- Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pynchon (read before 2011)
- The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald (July 2011)
H – I
- A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh (November 2011)
- The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers (October – November 2011)
- The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene (November – December 2011)
- Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow
- Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson (December 2011)
- A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul
- I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves (February 2012)
- Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace (Part 2) (Part 3) (August-September 2011)
- Invisible Man (1952), by Ralph Ellison
L – N
- Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis (December 2011)
- Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov (May 2012)
- Lord of the Flies (1955), by William Golding (read before 2011)
- The Lord of the Rings (1954), by J.R.R. Tolkien (read before 2011)
- Loving (1945), by Henry Green
- Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis (March 2012)
- The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead (Part 2) (April-May 2012)
- Midnight’s Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie
- Money (1984), by Martin Amis
- The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy
- Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf
- Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs
- Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright
- Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson (read before 2011)
- Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1984 (1948), by George Orwell (read before 2011)
O – R
- On the Road (1957), by Jack Kerouac
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey (read before 2011)
- The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski
- Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov (February 2012)
- A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster (October 2011)
- Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion
- Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth
- Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt
- The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark
- Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike
- Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow
- The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis
- Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett
- Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard Yates
S – T
- The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles
- Slaughterhouse Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut (read before 2011)
- Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson (read before 2011)
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth
- The Sound and the Fury (1929), by William Faulkner
- The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre
- The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
- Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee (read before 2011)
- To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf
- Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller
U – W
- Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick
- Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch
- Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry
- Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (read before 2011)
- White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo
- White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys
Graphic Novels
- Berlin: City of Stones (2000), by Jason Lutes
- Blankets (2003), by Craig Thompson
- Bone (2004), by Jeff Smith (read before 2011)
- The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2002), by Kim Deitch
- The Dark Knight Returns (1986), by Frank Miller (read before 2011)
- David Boring (2000), by Daniel Clowes (read before 2011)
- Ed the Happy Clown (1989), by Chester Brown
- Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), by Chris Ware
- Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (2003), by Gilbert Hernandez (read before 2011)
- Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (read before 2011)
I’ve read 21 from this list. I’m on a mission to read the 501 Must Read list so there’s some duplicates on both lists.
Awesome! I’ll have to check out your blog.