I came across this list in the summer when I was looking for books to read. I thought it was a great project to read through the list of Time Magazine’s 100 All-Time Novels. The list was compiled in 2005 by Time Magazine and includes books from 1923 to present day, you can read more about the selection process here. I’ve read a few during high school like The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. There are a lot of books on the list that I’ve always wanted to read, and others I am not familiar with. The complete list is below.

I would love to say that I’m going to finish this list by the end of 2012 but I’m going to be realistic and take my time. I’m looking forward to visiting my local library and writing a short review/report after I complete each book.

Do you have any goals or challenges for yourself for the new year?

The List:

A – B

• The Adventures of Augie March
• All the King’s Men
• American Pastoral
• An American Tragedy
• Animal Farm
• Appointment in Samarra
• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
• The Assistant
• At Swim-Two-Birds
• Atonement
• Beloved
• The Berlin Stories
• The Big Sleep
• The Blind Assassin
• Blood Meridian
• Brideshead Revisited
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey

C – D

• Call It Sleep
• Catch-22
• The Catcher in the Rye
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Confessions of Nat Turner
• The Corrections
• The Crying of Lot 49
• A Dance to the Music of Time
• The Day of the Locust
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
• A Death in the Family
• The Death of the Heart
• Deliverance
• Dog Soldiers

F – G

• Falconer
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• The Golden Notebook
• Go Tell it on the Mountain
• Gone With the Wind
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Gravity’s Rainbow
• The Great Gatsby

H – I

• A Handful of Dust
• The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
• The Heart of the Matter
• Herzog
• Housekeeping
• A House for Mr. Biswas
• I, Claudius
• Infinite Jest
• Invisible Man

L – N

• Light in August
• The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
• Lolita
• Lord of the Flies
• The Lord of the Rings
• Loving
• The Moviegoer
• Lucky Jim
• The Man Who Loved Children
• Midnight’s Children
• Money
• Mrs. Dalloway
• Naked Lunch
• Native Son
• Neuromancer
• Never Let Me Go
• 1984

O – R

• On the Road
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• The Painted Bird
• Pale Fire
• A Passage to India
• Play It As It Lays
• Portnoy’s Complaint
• Possession
• The Power and the Glory
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Rabbit, Run
• Ragtime
• The Recognitions
• Red Harvest
• Revolutionary Road

S – T

• The Sheltering Sky
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Snow Crash
• The Sot-Weed Factor
• The Sound and the Fury
• The Sportswriter
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
• The Sun Also Rises
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Things Fall Apart
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• To the Lighthouse
• Tropic of Cancer

U – W

• Ubik
• Under the Net
• Under the Volcano
• Watchmen
• White Noise
• White Teeth
• Wide Sargasso Sea