Time Magazine’s Top 100 English-language novels from 1923 to the present

Sign of a slow news week: Time Magazine has published a list by their critics of the top 100 English-language novels from 1923 to today. Obviously, such a list is highly subjective (where’s Lonesome Dove?), but I’ve read a fair number of books listed:

1. Animal Farm
2. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
3. The Catcher in the Rye — Which I remember nothing of, other than a character was described as having “mossy teeth,” an uncomfortably vivid image.
4. The Grapes of Wrath — I think I read this.
5. The Great Gatsby — Every time I read this, I find more in it.
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
7. Lord of the Flies — Astonishingly good, and simply astonishing in general.
8. The Lord of the Rings — I prefer The Hobbit, myself.
9. 1984
10. The Sun Also Rises — Which I remember nothing of.
11. To the Lighthouse
12. Watchmen — The inclusion of this instead of Maus will likely make the Comics Journal crowd go nuts.
13. White Noise — An awesome book.

An astonishing number of those are from Mrs. Nyrop’s 12th grade AP English class back at South Lakes High School, leavened with books I read for my English major at Virginia Tech.

There are also a fair number of books on the list that I started, or was supposed to read, but never finished.

(Source.)

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