List of books considered the best

This is a list of books that multiple publishers have considered to be among the best of all time. The books listed here are included on at least three separate "best/greatest of all time" lists from different publications, as chosen by their editorial staffs/authors.

The current lists are as follows:

• Time's List of the 100 Best Novels (1)
• NPR's 100 Years, 100 Novels (2)
• Modern Library 100 Best Novels (3)
• The Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (4)
• The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English (5)

List

Name	Author	Year	List
All The Kings Men	Robert Penn Warren	1946	1, 2, 3
Animal Farm	George Orwell	1945	1, 2, 3
Appointment in Samarra	John O'Hara	1934	1, 2, 3
Atonement	Ian McEwan	2001	1, 2, 4
Beloved	Toni Morrison	1987	1, 2, 4, 5
The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	1939	1, 2, 4
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	1961	1, 2, 4
The Catcher In The Rye	J.D. Salinger	1951	1, 2, 3, 4
A Dance to the Music of Time	Anthony Powell	1951-75	1, 2, 4
The Day of the Locust	Nathanael West	1939	1, 2, 3
Deliverance	James Dickey	1970	1, 2, 3
The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing	1962	1, 2, 3, 5
Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin	1953	1, 3, 4
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	1939	1, 2, 3, 4
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	1, 2, 3, 4
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	1899	2, 3, 4
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	1952	1, 3, 5
Light in August	William Faulkner	1932	1, 2, 3
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	1955	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The Lord of the Flies	William Golding	1954	1, 2, 3
The Moviegoer	William Percy	1961	1, 2, 3
Lucky Jim	Kingsley Amis	1954	1, 2, 4
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	1981	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mrs. Dalloway	Virginia Woolf	1925	1, 4, 5
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	1949	1, 3, 4, 5
On The Road	Jack Kerouac	1957	1, 3, 4
A Passage To India	E.M. Forster	1924	1, 2, 3, 4
Portnoy's Complaint	Philip Roth	1969	1, 2, 3
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark	1961	1, 3, 4
Scoop	Evelyn Waugh	1938	2, 3, 4
Sons and Lovers	D.H. Lawrence	1913	2, 3, 5
The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	1929	1, 3, 5
The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway	1926	1, 2, 3
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	1958	1, 4, 5
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	1960	1, 2, 4
To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	1927	1, 2, 3, 5
Ulysses	James Joyce	1922	3, 4, 5
Under the Net	Iris Murdoch	1954	1, 3, 4
Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys	1966	1, 3, 4

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