The 100 Best Books According to TIME Magazine*
(categorized by author)

Chinua Achebe
James Rufus Agee
Kingsley Amis
Martin Amis
Margaret Atwood
James Baldwin
John Barth
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow1
Judy Blume
Elizabeth Bowen
Paul Bowles
Anthony Burgess
William S. Burroughs
A. S. Byatt
Willa Cather
Raymond Chandler
John Cheever
Don DeLillo
Philip K. Dick
James Dickey
Joan Didion
E. L. Doctorow
Theodore Dreiser
Ralph Ellison
William Faulkner
William Faulkner1
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Richard Ford
E. M. Forster
John Fowles
Jonathan Franzen
William Gaddis
William Gibson
William Golding
Robert Graves
Henry Green
Graham Greene
Graham Greene1
Dashiell Hammett
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Zora Neale Hurston
Christopher Isherwood
Kazuo Ishiguro
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
John le Carré
Jerzy Kosinski
Harper Lee
Doris Lessing
C. S. Lewis
Malcolm Lowry
Bernard Malamud
Cormac McCarthy
Carson McCullers
Ian McEwan
Henry Miller
Margaret Mitchell
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Toni Morrison
Iris Murdoch
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov1
V. S. Naipaul
Flann O'Brien
John O'Hara
George Orwell
George Orwell1
Walker Percy
Anthony Powell
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon1
Jean Rhys
Marilynne Robinson
Henry Roth
Philip Roth
Philip Roth1
Salman Rushdie
J. D. Salinger
Zadie Smith
Muriel Spark
Christina Stead
John Steinbeck
Neal Stephenson
Robert Stone
Nat Turner
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut
David Foster Wallace
Robert Penn Warren
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh1
Nathanael West
Thornton Wilder
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf1
Richard Wright
Richard Yates