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Anthony Burgess' list of the best novels published in English from 1939 to 1984
N O V E L S O W N R E A D Achebe, Chinua - A Man of the People - (1966) * Aldiss, Brian - Life in the Westout of print (1980) Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim (1954) * Amis, Kingsley - The Anti-Death Leagueout of print (1966) * Baldwin, James - Another Country (1962) * Ballard, J.G. - The Unlimited Dream Companyout of print (1979) * Barth, John - Giles Goat-Boy (1966) * Bellow, Saul - The Victim (1947) * Bellow, Saul - Humboldt's Gift (1975) Bowen, Elizabeth - The Heat of the Day (1949) Bradbury, Malcolm - The History Man (1975) Braine, John - Room at the Topspecial order (1957) Cary, Joyce - The Horse's Mouth (1944) * * Chandler, Raymond - The Long Goodbye (1953) * Compton-Burnett, Ivy - The Mighty and Their Fallout of print (1961) Cooper, William - Scenes from Provincial Lifeout of print (1950) Davies, Robertson - The Rebel Angels (1982) * * Deighton, Len - Bomber (1970) Durrell, Lawrence - The Alexandria Quartet (1957) Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man (1952) * Faulkner, William - The Mansion (1959) * Fleming, Ian - Goldfingerout of print (1959) * Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) * Frayn, Michael - Sweet Dreamsout of print (1973) Golding, William - The Spire (1964) Gordimer, Nadine - The Late Bourgeois World (1966) Gray, Alasdair - Lanark (1981) Green, Henry - Party Going (1939) Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory (1940) * Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter (1948) Harris, Wilson - Heartlandout of print (1964) Hartley, L.P. - Facial Justiceout of print (1960) * Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 (1961) * * Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) * * Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea (1952) * * Hoban, Russell - Riddley Walker (1980) Hughes, Richard - The Fox in the Attic (1961) Huxley, Aldous - After Many a Summer (1939) Huxley, Aldous - Ape and Essence (1948) * Huxley, Aldous - Island (1962) Isherwood, Christopher - A Single Man (1964) Johnson, Pamela Hansford - An Error of Judgementout of print (1962) Jong, Erica - How to Save Your Own Lifeout of print (1977) Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake (1939) Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook (1962) Lodge, David - How Far Can You Go? (aka Souls & Bodies) (1980) Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano (1947) * MacInnes, Colin - The London Novelsout of print (1957) Mailer, Norman - The Naked and the Dead (1948) Mailer, Norman - Ancient Evenings (1983) Malamud, Bernard - The Assistant (1957) * Malamud, Bernard - Dubin's Lives (1979) Manning, Olivia - The Balkan Trilogyout of print (1960) Maugham, Somerset - The Razor's Edge (1944) McCarthy, Mary - The Groves of Academe (1952) * Moore, Brian - The Doctor's Wife (1976) Murdoch, Iris - The Bell (1958) Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire (1962) * * Nabokov, Vladimir - The Defense (1964) * * Naipaul, V.S. - A Bend in the River (1979) Narayan, R.K. - The Vendor of Sweets (1967) Nye, Robert - Falstaffout of print (1976) O'Brien, Flann - At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) * O'Connor, Flannery - Wise Blood (1952) * O'Hara, John - The Lockwood Concernout of print (1965) Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) * Peake, Mervyn - Titus Groan (1946) Percy, Walker - The Last Gentleman (1966) * Plunkett, James - Farewell Companionsout of print (1977) Powell, Anthony - A Dance to the Music of Time (1951) Priestley, J.B. - The Image Menout of print (1968) Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow (1973) * * Richler, Mordecai - Cocksureout of print (1968) Roberts, Keith - Pavaneout of print (1968) Roth, Phillip - Portnoy's Complaint (1969) * * Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye (1951) * Sansom, William - The Bodyout of print (1949) Schulberg, Budd - The Disenchantedout of print (1950) Scott, Paul - Staying On (1977) Shute, Nevil - No Highwayout of print (1948) Sillitoe, Alan - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) Snow, C.P. - Strangers and Brothers (1940) Spark, Muriel - The Girls of Slender Means (1963) * Spark, Muriel - The Mandelbaum Gateout of print (1965) Styron, William - Sophie's Choice (1979) * Theroux, Alexander - Darconville's Cat (1981) Theroux, Paul - The Mosquito Coast (1981) * Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) * * Updike, John - The Coup (1978) * * Vidal, Gore - Creation (1981) * Warner, Rex - The Aerodrome (1941) Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited (1945) * * Waugh, Evelyn - Sword of Honorout of print (1952) * White, T.H. - The Once and Future King (1958) White, Patrick - Riders in the Chariotout of print (1961) Williamson, Henry - A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951) Wilson, Angus - The Old Men at the Zooout of print (1961) Wilson, Angus - Late Callout of print (1964) Wouk, Herman - The Caine Mutiny (1951) *
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