I was thinking the other day about how many novels I haven’t read that I mean to. I work in a library and only know of most classics by name or only a bit of the plot, so I thought it was about time I start reading more. I’m going to attempt to read all 100 of Time’s best novels. These are all published after 1923, the year Time was founded. What I like about this list is that doesn’t remind me of a high school English class, where everything required to read had all the joy sucked out of it by testing and discussions and papers. I’ve crossed out any that I have read, and I didn’t cross out anything I started but didn’t finish. There are a few that I had to read for school and only read the parts I needed to for a test or a book report. Wish me luck.
- The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
- All the King’s Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
- American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
- An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell(read in middle school) Continue reading