Burgess’s Ninety-Nine Novels

Books found in Anthony Burgess’s book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (1984)

  1. Henry Green – Party Going (1939)
  2. Aldous Huxley – After Many a Summer (1939)
  3. James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (1939)
  4. Flann O’Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
  5. Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory (1940)
  6. Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  7. C.P. Snow – Strangers and Brothers (1940)
  8. Rex Warner – The Aerodrome (1941)
  9. Joyce Cary – The Horse’s Mouth (1944)
  10. Somerset Maugham – The Razor’s Edge (1944)
  11. Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited (1945)
  12. Mervyn Peake – Titus Groan (1946)
  13. Saul Bellow – The Victim (1947)
  14. Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano (1947)
  15. Elizabeth Bowen – The Heat of the Day (1949)
  16. Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter (1948)
  17. Aldous Huxley – Ape and Essence (1948)
  18. Nevil Shute – No Highway (1948)
  19. Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead (1948)
  20. George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
  21. William Sansom – The Body (1949)
  22. William Cooper – Scenes from Provincial Life (1950)
  23. Budd Schulberg – The Disenchanted (1950)
  24. Anthony Powell – A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)
  25. J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  26. Henry Williamson – A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951)
  27. Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny (1951)
  28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (1952)
  29. Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
  30. Mary McCarthy – The Groves of Academe (1952)
  31. Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood (1952)
  32. Evelyn Waugh – Sword of Honour (1952)
  33. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye (1953)
  34. Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954)
  35. John Braine – Room at the Top (1957)
  36. Lawrence Durrell – The Alexandria Quartet (1957)
  37. Colin MacInnes – The London Novels (1957)
  38. Bernard Malamud – The Assistant (1957)
  39. Iris Murdoch – The Bell (1958)
  40. Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
  41. T.H. White – The Once and Future King (1958)
  42. William Faulkner – The Mansion (1959)
  43. Ian Fleming – Goldfinger (1959)
  44. L.P. Hartley – Facial Justice (1960)
  45. Olivia Manning – The Balkan Trilogy (1960)
  46. Ivy Compton-Burnett – The Mighty and Their Fall (1961)
  47. Joseph Heller – Catch-22 (1961)
  48. Richard Hughes – The Fox in the Attic (1961)
  49.  Patrick White – Riders in the Chariot (1961)
  50. Angus Wilson – The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
  51. James Baldwin – Another Country (1962)
  52. Aldous Huxley – Island (1962)
  53. Pamela Hansford Johnson – An Error of Judgement (1962)
  54. Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook (1962)
  55. Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire (1962)
  56. Muriel Spark – The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
  57. William Golding – The Spire (1964)
  58. Wilson Harris – Heartland (1964)
  59. Christopher Isherwood – A Single Man (1964)
  60. Vladimir Nabokov – The Defense (1964)
  61. Angus Wilson – Late Call (1964)
  62. John O’Hara – The Lockwood Concern (1965)
  63. Muriel Spark – The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
  64. Chinua Achebe – A Man of the People (1966)
  65. Kingsley Amis – The Anti-Death League (1966)
  66. John Barth – Giles Goat-Boy (1966)
  67. Nadine Gordimer – The Late Bourgeois World (1966)
  68. Walker Percy – The Last Gentleman (1966)
  69. R.K. Narayan – The Vendor of Sweets (1967)
  70. J.B. Priestley – The Image Men (1968)
  71. Mordecai Richler – Cocksure (1968)
  72. Keith Roberts – Pavane (1968)
  73. John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)
  74. Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
  75. Len Deighton – Bomber (1970)
  76. Michael Frayn – Sweet Dreams (1973)
  77. Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
  78. Saul Bellow – Humboldt’s Gift (1975)
  79. Malcolm Bradbury – The History Man (1975)
  80. Robert Nye – Falstaff (1976)
  81. Erica Jong – How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
  82. James Plunkett – Farewell Companions (1977)
  83. Paul Mark Scott – Staying On (1977)
  84. John Updike – The Coup (1978)
  85. J.G. Ballard – The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
  86. Bernard Malamud – Dubin’s Lives (1979)
  87. Brian Moore – The Doctor’s Wife (1976)
  88. V.S. Naipaul – A Bend in the River (1979)
  89. William Styron – Sophie’s Choice (1979)
  90. Brian Aldiss – Life in the West (1980)
  91. Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker (1980)
  92. David Lodge – How Far Can You Go? (1980)
  93. John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
  94. Alasdair Gray – Lanark (1981)
  95. Alexander Theroux – Darconville’s Cat (1981)
  96. Paul Theroux – The Mosquito Coast (1981)
  97. Gore Vidal – Creation (1981)
  98. Robertson Davies – The Rebel Angels (1982)
  99. Norman Mailer – Ancient Evenings (1983)