Ninety-nine Novels

The following novels were discussed in Anthony Burgess's book Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (1984):

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

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