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	About the List » Managing Editor James Kelly talks about the list and shares his John Le Carre favorite (which didn't make the cut). » Richard Lacayo lays bare the process (and the pain) behind stacking up 100 novels.   Reader's Choice 1:   2:  Lolita 3:  A Passage to India 4:  A Death in the Family 5:  Ubik     See the full list   Best Graphic Novels TIME's Andrew Arnold picks Watchmen and nine other comix masterpieces   Archive Trivia Who was the first author to appear on a TIME cover? Get the answer and much more on our trivia page   Talk Back Why isn't the Harry Potter series on there!!?? It definitely should be on there!! —Robin; Seattle, Wash. Where is Ayn Rand and John Irving? I checked your list twice, I can't believe you did not list either author. —Susan Sayfan; Longwood, Fla. Send us your thoughts »   From the TIME Archive Ernest Hemingway "Make no mistake, Ernest Hemingway is somebody; a new, honest, un-'literary' transcriber of life...." Writer 1/18/26 More Writers in TIME Search the Archive from 1923 - Present   More From TIME.com All-TIME 100 Movies » TIME critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel offer their list of 100 great films 50 Best Websites » The Top 10 Everything of 2008 »		Read the complete list | How we picked the list | Tell us what you think The Adventures of Augie March (1953) Saul Bellow All the King's Men (1946) Robert Penn Warren American Pastoral (1997) Philip Roth An American Tragedy (1925) Theodore Dreiser Animal Farm (1946) George Orwell Appointment in Samarra (1934) John O'Hara Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) Judy Blume The Assistant (1957) Bernard Malamud At Swim-Two-Birds (1938) Flann O'Brien Atonement (2002) Ian McEwan Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison The Berlin Stories (1946) Christopher Isherwood The Big Sleep (1939) Raymond Chandler The Blind Assassin (2000) Margaret Atwood Blood Meridian (1986) Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited (1946) Evelyn Waugh The Man Who Loved Children (1940) Christina Stead Midnight's Children (1981) Salman Rushdie Money (1984) Martin Amis The Moviegoer (1961) Walker Percy Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Virginia Woolf Naked Lunch (1959) William Burroughs Native Son (1940) Richard Wright Neuromancer (1984) William Gibson Never Let Me Go (2005) Kazuo Ishiguro 1984 (1948) George Orwell On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) Ken Kesey The Painted Bird (1965) Jerzy Kosinski Pale Fire (1962) Vladimir Nabokov A Passage to India (1924) E.M. Forster Play It As It Lays (1970) Joan Didion
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