Treasury · Merit

Time Magazine 1923-2005

TIME's all-time hundred novels: the best English-language novels published between TIME's first year, 1923, and 2005, when the list was made.

40 books in the catalog stand on this list. The list itself (opens the list's own website) ↗

A reader aged

12 of these books cover age 18. The 9 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• 1984 by George Orwell, 1949 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1090L · AR 8.9 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, 1946 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1060L · AR 6.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1981 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1170L · AR 8.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, 1924 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 950L · AR 7.7 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• Atonement by Ian McEwan, 2001 · ages 14–18 · AR 7.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 870L · AR 6.0 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 1945 · ages 16–18
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• Light in August by William Faulkner, 1932 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 930L · AR 6.7 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1120L · AR 8.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 970L · AR 6.0 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, 2000 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 880L · AR 5.9 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, 2000 · ages 14–18 · AR 6.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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