1 |
Sons and Lovers |
DH Lawrence |
1913 |
UK |
2 |
Of Human Bondage |
W Somerset Maugham |
1915 |
UK |
3 |
A Portrait of the Artist as the Young Man |
James Joyce |
1916 |
UK |
4 |
Ulysses |
James Joyce |
1922 |
UK |
5 |
A Passage to India |
EM Foster |
1924 |
UK |
6 |
The Great Gatsby |
F Scott Fitzgerald |
1925 |
US |
7 |
An American Tragedy |
Theodore Dreiser |
1925 |
US |
8 |
Mrs Dalloway |
Virginia Woolf |
1925 |
UK |
9 |
The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
1926 |
US |
10 |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Willa Cather |
1927 |
US |
11 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Thornton Wilder |
1927 |
US |
12 |
To The Lighthouse |
Virginia Woolf |
1927 |
US |
13 |
The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner |
1929 |
US |
14 |
As I Lay Dying |
William Faulkner |
1930 |
US |
15 |
Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
1932 |
UK |
16 |
I, Claudius |
Robert Graves |
1934 |
UK |
17 |
Appointment in Samarra |
John O’Hara |
1934 |
US |
18 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Zora Neal Hurston |
1937 |
US |
19 |
The Big Sleep |
Raymond Chandler |
1939 |
UK |
20 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
1939 |
US |
21 |
The Day of the Locust |
Nathanael West |
1939 |
US |
22 |
The Man Who Loved Children |
Christina Stead |
1940 |
AUS |
23 |
Darkness at Noon |
Arthur Koestler |
1940 |
HUN-UK |
24 |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
Carson McCullers |
1940 |
US |
25 |
The Power and the Glory |
Graham Greene |
1942 |
UK |
26 |
Brideshead Revisited |
Evelyn Waugh |
1945 |
UK |
27 |
All The Kings Men |
Robert Penn Warren |
1946 |
US |
28 |
Under the Volcano |
Malcolm Lowry |
1947 |
CA |
29 |
The Heart of the Matter |
Graham Greene |
1948 |
UK |
30 |
The Harp in the South |
Ruth Park |
1948 |
AUS |
31 |
Nineteen Eight-Four |
George Orwell |
1949 |
UK |
32 |
The Catcher in the Rye |
JD Salinger |
1951 |
US |
33 |
Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
1952 |
US |
34 |
Wise Blood |
Flannery O’Connor |
1952 |
US |
35 |
The Adventures of Augie March |
Saul Bellows |
1953 |
CA-US |
36 |
Go Tell it on the Mountain |
James Baldwin |
1953 |
US |
37 |
Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
1953 |
US |
38 |
Lord of the Flies |
William Golding |
1954 |
UK |
39 |
Lucky Jim |
Kingsley Amis |
1954 |
UK |
40 |
Lolita |
Vladimir Nabakov |
1955 |
RUS-US |
41 |
On the Road |
Jack Kerouac |
1957 |
US |
42 |
Voss |
Patrick White |
1957 |
AUS |
43 |
Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
1958 |
NIG |
44 |
Rabbit Angstrom Tetrology |
John Updike |
1960 |
US |
45 |
To Kill a Mocking Bird |
Harper Lee |
1960 |
US |
46 |
Revolutionary Road |
Richard Yates |
1961 |
US |
47 |
A House for Mr. Biswas |
V. S. Naipul |
1961 |
TRIN |
48 |
Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
1961 |
US |
49 |
A Clockwork Orange |
Anthony Burgess |
1962 |
UK |
50 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest |
Ken Kesey |
1962 |
US |
51 |
Pale Fire |
Vladimir Nabakov |
1962 |
RUS-US |
52 |
The Golden Notebook |
Doris Lessing |
1962 |
UK |
53 |
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
John le Carré |
1963 |
UK |
54 |
Herzog |
Saul Bellows |
1964 |
CA-US |
55 |
The Crying of Lot 49 |
Thomas Pynchon |
1966 |
US |
56 |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
Jean Rhys |
1966 |
DOM-UK |
57 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
1969 |
US |
58 |
Gravity’s Rainbow |
Thomas Pynchon |
1973 |
US |
59 |
Sophie’s Choice |
William Styron |
1979 |
US |
60 |
Earthly Powers |
Anthony Burgess |
1980 |
UK |
61 |
Housekeeping |
Marilyn Robinson |
1980 |
US |
62 |
Waiting for the Barbarians |
JM Coetzee |
1980 |
SA |
63 |
Midnight’s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
1981 |
IND-UK |
64 |
Schindler’s Ark |
Thomas Kenneally |
1982 |
AUS |
65 |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
1983 |
US |
66 |
Money |
Martin Amis |
1984 |
UK |
67 |
Blood Meridian |
Cormac McCarthy |
1985 |
US |
68 |
White Noise |
Don DeLillo |
1985 |
US |
69 |
The Handmaid’s Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
1985 |
CA |
70 |
Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
1987 |
US |
71 |
The Satanic Verses |
Salman Rushdie |
1988 |
IND-UK |
72 |
Oscar and Lucinda |
Peter Carey |
1989 |
AUS |
73 |
Possession |
A.S.Byatt |
1990 |
UK |
74 |
American Psycho |
Bret Easton Ellis |
1991 |
US |
75 |
Cloudstreet |
Tim Winton |
1991 |
AUS |
76 |
Border Trilogy |
Cormac McCarthy |
1992 |
US |
77 |
The Blue Flower |
Penelope Fitzgerald |
1995 |
UK |
78 |
Infinite Jest |
David Foster Wallace |
1996 |
US |
79 |
The God of Small Things |
Arundhati Roy |
1997 |
IND |
80 |
American Pastoral |
Phillip Roth |
1997 |
US |
81 |
Underworld |
Don DeLillo |
1997 |
US |
82 |
Amsterdam |
Ian McEwan |
1998 |
UK |
83 |
Disgrace |
JM Coetzee |
1999 |
SA |
84 |
Drylands |
Thea Astley |
1999 |
AUS |
85 |
Human Stain |
Phillip Roth |
2000 |
US |
86 |
White Teeth |
Zadie Smith |
2000 |
UK |
87 |
The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood |
2000 |
CA |
88 |
The Corrections |
Jonathan Franzen |
2001 |
US |
89 |
Journey to the Stone Country |
Alex Miller |
2002 |
AUS |
90 |
The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
2003 |
AFG-US |
91 |
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
Susanna Clarke |
2004 |
UK |
92 |
Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
2005 |
JAP-UK |
93 |
Gilead |
Marilyn Robinson |
2005 |
US |
94 |
Carpentaria |
Alexis Wright |
2006 |
AUS |
95 |
The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao |
Junot Diaz |
2008 |
DOM-US |
96 |
The Finkler Question |
Howard Jacobsen |
2010 |
UK |
97 |
A Sense of An Ending |
Julian Barnes |
2011 |
UK |
98 |
A Visit From the Goon Squad |
Jennifer Egan |
2011 |
US |
99 |
The Deadman Dance |
Kim Scott |
2011 |
AUS |
100 |
Foal’s Bread |
Gillian Mears |
2012 |
AUS |
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