Can you name the Time Magazine's 100 Best Novels (english language) from 1923-2006?

Author	Title
Saul Bellow
Robert Penn Warren
Philip Roth
Theodore Dreiser
George Orwell
John O'Hara
Judy Blume
Bernard Malamud
Flann O'Brien
Ian McEwan
Toni Morrison
Christopher Isherwood
Raymond Chandler
Margaret Atwood
Cormac McCarthy
Evelyn Waugh
Thornton Wilder
Henry Roth
Joseph Heller
J.D. Salinger
Anthony Burgess
William Styron
Jonathan Franzen
Thomas Pynchon
Anthony Powell
Nathaniel West
Willa Cather
James Agee
Elizabeth Bowen
James Dickey
Robert Stone
John Cheever
John Fowles
Doris Lessing

Author	Title
James Baldwin
Margaret Mitchell
John Steinbeck
Thomas Pynchon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Evelyn Waugh
Carson McCullers
Graham Greene
Saul Bellow
Marilynne Robinson
V.S. Naipaul
Robert Graves
David Foster Wallace
Ralph Ellison
William Faulkner
C.S. Lewis
Vladimir Nabokov
William Golding
J.R.R. Tolkien
Henry Green
Kingsley Amis
Christina Stead
Salman Rushdie
Martin Amis
Walker Percy
Virginia Woolf
William Burroughs
Richard Wright
William Gibson
Kazuo Ishiguro
George Orwell
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Jerzy Kosinski

Author	Title
Vladimir Nabokov
E.M. Forster
Joan Didion
Philip Roth
A.S. Byatt
Graham Greene
Muriel Spark
John Updike
E.L. Doctorow
William Gaddis
Dashiell Hammett
Richard Yates
Paul Bowles
Kurt Vonnegut
Neal Stephenson
John Barth
William Faulkner
Richard Ford
John le Carre
Ernest Hemingway
Zora Neale Hurston
Chinua Achebe
Harper Lee
Virginia Woolf
Henry Miller
Philip K. Dick
Iris Murdoch
Malcolm Lowry
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Don DeLillo
Zadie Smith
Jean Rhys

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	SirZapdos:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 17:46 GMT		1 point
	Tough quiz. Got 20 of them. Glad to see Neal Stephenson on the list!

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	JBard:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 18:58 GMT		-1 points
	blast! 77 for me. somewhat less brilliant, or somewhat less honest.

	sevorak:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 19:36 GMT		16 points
	@shel99: Tolkien wrote it as a single novel, but the publishers decided to divide it into three volumes to keep costs down.

	ntnon:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 19:38 GMT		-2 points
	...good idea. :o)

	sactoshc:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 21:47 GMT		10 points
	Another great quiz that doubles as a reference for me when I need to work on improving my cultural literacy.

	sevorak:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 21:51 GMT		1 point
	At the risk of nit picking, the title of the second Orwell novel is Nineteen Eighty-Four spelled out, not the number.

	mattyroo:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 22:42 GMT		3 points
	A quiz based on the characters of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons novel would be great.

	klogg:	Dec 20th, 2008 at 01:01 GMT		1 point
	to the lighthouse is my favv

	Chiaprofessor:	Dec 20th, 2008 at 20:28 GMT		3 points
	@shel99: if you want to get REAL picky, it's a sextology, the publishers divided it into 6 books, in 3 volumes.

	Catherine_F:	Dec 20th, 2008 at 21:47 GMT		3 points
	Wow, and I've only read two of them. (If I count the ones I started but didn't finish it's about ten.) What an uncultured oaf I am.

	sevorak:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 00:06 GMT		1 point
	Not sure why I'm getting voted down, since that is the official name of the novel. Several of the quizzes on this site list it as such even. At the very least the number spelled out should be accepted, since it is in all the other quizzes where the book appears.

	Sondheim:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 21:54 GMT		1 point
	I got 57 - but I've only read 12 of them. Good quiz.

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	Jesse:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 02:51 GMT		1 point
	This seems to have a lot in common with that other quiz - the one about most banned books! Hmmmmmm.....

	chico:	Dec 24th, 2008 at 07:39 GMT		-1 points
	14 minutes is not a lot of time for this one. (I got 42, and kicked myself for missing about 20 more.)

	Tomlavan:	Dec 26th, 2008 at 20:24 GMT		-1 points
	a confederacy of dunces anyone? lady chatterley's lover? good, broad list by time anyway. I guess joyce is spinning in his grave somewhere, missing the list by a year, or maybe this was intentional, although i can't think why.

	Etheridge2:	Feb 9th, 2009 at 05:53 GMT		1 point
	Why did they start in 1923 as opposed to the 20th century? I have problems with the list but the quiz is fun..and 14 minutes is not a lot of time for this one...heck i got only 26 and mayeb should have gotten like 10-15 more

	cashtray:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 10:17 GMT		2 points
	Jeremy, you might have already learned this, but 1923 is when Time started publishing. And I wasn't logged in, so I can't prove it, but I got 95 of them. I worked in a bookstore for awhile, though, so that helped.

	O_O:	Mar 4th, 2009 at 10:26 GMT		1 point
	How the heck did "The Sun Also Rises" make the list, but "A Farewell to Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" did not? I was glad to see "Blood Meridan" there though.

	newenglander:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 23:17 GMT		-2 points
	no kite runner?

	Robyn:	Jun 1st, 2009 at 22:28 GMT		1 point
	Philip Roth is spelled with one l. It's right on one of the clues. Nathaniel West should be Nathanael. I wish I'd realized at the beginning this was alphabetical. I was halfway through my time before I realized...

	goharshindali:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 14:42 GMT		-3 points
	And speaking of the being alphabetical, how is "The Golden Notebook" before "Go Tell It on the Mountain"?

	oldkent:	Jul 12th, 2009 at 22:52 GMT		-2 points
	I definitely thought that the Harry Potter novels would be on this list, and spent at least two minutes typing them in ... until I realised JKRowling was not actually on the list..

	exackerly:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 19:27 GMT		-1 points
	A more interesting list than the Modern Library one. But also more people I'd never heard of... And really, should comic books be on there? If so, where's Uncle Scrooge?

	6oclockman:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 02:55 GMT		1 point
	i can't believe that J.D. Salinger, one of the masters of dialogue and character got beat out by Judy Blume. How does that make any sense

	Gangsterls:	Dec 19th, 2009 at 02:07 GMT		3 points
	6oclockman, it's alphabetical.

	pinkfishy:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 00:28 GMT		2 points
	I'm surprised that Revolutionary Road isn't guessed more often, considering the recent movie adaptation.

	challie:	Apr 3rd, 2010 at 01:42 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz - I got 52 and now my brain needs an ice bath. I missed several of the most common answers & got several of the least common answers ... to me, that makes a great quiz.

	erife5:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 03:35 GMT		1 point
	old man and the sea- best book ever

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	adbrad36:	Apr 19th, 2011 at 18:47 GMT		7 points
	A bit silly that it doesn't take "Slaughterhouse-5" for "Slaughterhouse-five" but great nonetheless. Only managed 16

	TheSanguineOne:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 02:17 GMT		0 points
	Now I feel like a total fool. My feeble mind immediately thought of that novel Twilight. shoots self (figuratively)

	donnyc83:	Sep 30th, 2011 at 18:14 GMT		1 point
	So tough. Cormac McCarthy and its not "The Road." Ernest Hemingway and its not "The Old Man and the Sea" or "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Two by Faulkner and "As I Lay Dying" and "Go Down, Moses" are not here either. Woof.

	ktappe:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 23:07 GMT		1 point
	I tried both "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Slaughterhouse 5". We need the hyphen to get credit? Really?

	ilovekelly75:	Dec 16th, 2011 at 09:10 GMT		1 point
	Revolutionary Road is amazing.

	gvigary:	Jan 15th, 2012 at 19:51 GMT		2 points
	I tried not only "Slaughterhouse 5" but "Slaughterhouse V". Harsh. Also lots of "right author, wrong book" moments - eg tried The Third Man, The End of the Affair, Brighton Rock and Our Man in Havana for Greene but missed both the ones that WERE picked :( PS @erife5 - I think TOMATS is more often considered a novella (though I note Wikipedia disagrees).

	thewildboo:	Mar 30th, 2012 at 20:41 GMT		1 point
	Play it as it Lays may be my favorite novel. Too bad only 3.5% know it!

	piggyGuy:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 05:35 GMT		1 point
	The quiz is fine. Time's choices are boneheaded. Lists like this in general make me squirm, but so much of this is show-off stuff no one really reads, or obligatory in some other way. Try reading Death Comes for the Archbishop and retaining consciousness some time. Two Pynchon books, and the really poor Lion Witch Wardrobe, yet no room to be found for The Bone People. Alas. If people read Time, this would be even more troubling...