Ninety-nine novels : the best in English since 1939 : a personal choice /
Anthony Burgess provides a cogent and passionate argument for each of the books on this controversial, stimulating list
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1984
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1939:
- Party going / by Henry Green
- After many a summer / by Aldous Huxley
- Finnegans wake / by James Joyce
- At swim-two-birds / by Flann O'Brian
- 1940:
- The power and the glory / by Graham Greene
- For whom the bell tolls / by Ernest Hemingway
- Strangers and brothers (to 1970) / by C.P. Snow
- 1941:
- The aerodrome / by Rex Warner
- 1944:
- The horse's mouth / by Joyce Cary
- The razor's edge / by Somerset Maugham
- 1945:
- Brideshead revisited / by Evelyn Waugh
- 1946:
- Titus Groan / by Mervyn Peake
- 1947:
- The victim / by Saul Bellow
- Under the volcano / by Malcolm Lowry
- 1948:
- The heart of the matter / by Graham Greene
- Ape and essence / by Aldous Huxley
- The naked and the dead / by Norman Mailer
- No highway / by Nevil Shute
- 1949:
- The heat of the day / by Elizabeth Bowen
- Nineteen Eighty-Four / by George Orwell
- The body / by William Sansom
- 1950:
- Scenes from provincial life / by William Cooper
- The disenchanted / by Budd Schulberg
- 1951:
- A dance to the music of time (to 1975) / by Anthony Powell
- The catcher in the rye / by J.D. Salinger
- A chronicle of ancient sunlight (to 1969) / by Henry Williamson
- The caine Mutiny / by Herman Wouk
- 1952:
- Invisible man / by Ralph Ellison
- The old man and the sea / by Ernest Hemingway
- The groves of academe / by Mary McCarthy
- Wise blood / by Flannery O'Connor
- Sword of honour (to 1961) / by Evelyn Waugh
- 1953:
- The long goodbye / by Raymond Chandler
- 1954:
- Lucky Jim / by Kingsley Amis
- 1957:
- Room at the top / by John Braine
- The alexandria quartet (to 1960) / by Lawrence Durrell
- The London novels (to 1960) / by Colin MacInnes
- The assistant / by Bernard Malamud
- 1958:
- The bell / by Iris Murdoch
- Saturday night and Sunday morning / by Alan Sillitoe
- The once and future king / by T.H. White
- 1959:
- The mansion / by William Faulkner
- Goldfinger / by Ian Fleming 1960 :
- Facial justice / by L.P. Hartley
- The Balkans trilogy (to 1965) / by Olivia Manning
- 1961:
- The mighty and their fall / by Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Catch-22 / by Joseph Heller
- The fox in the attic / by Richard Hughes
- Riders in the chariot / by Patrick White
- The old men at the zoo / by Angus Wilson
- 1962:
- Another country / by James Baldwin
- An error of judgement / by Pamela Hansford Johnson
- Island / by Aldous Huxley
- The golden notebook / by Doris Lessing
- Pale fire / by Vladimir Nabokov
- 1963:
- The girls of slender means / by Muriel Spark
- 1964:
- The spire / by William Golding
- Heartland / by Wilson Harris
- A single man / by Christopher Isherwood
- The Defence / by Vladimir Nabokov
- Late call / by Angus Wilson
- 1965:
- The lockwood concern / by John O'Hara
- The mandelbaum gate / by Muriel Spark
- 1966:
- A man of the people / by Chinua Achebe
- The anti-death league / by Kingsley Amis
- Giles goat-boy / by John Barth
- The late bourgeois world / by Nadine Gordimer
- The last gentleman / by Walker Percy
- 1967:
- The vendor of sweets / by R.K. Narayan
- 1968:
- The image men / by J.B. Priestley
- Cocksure / by Mordecai Richler
- Pavane / by Keith Roberts
- 1969:
- The french lieutenant's woman / by John Fowles
- Portnoy's complaint / by Philip Roth
- 1970:
- Bomber / by Len Deighton
- 1973:
- Sweet dreams / by Michael Frayn
- Gravity's rainbow / by Thomas Pynchon
- 1975:
- Humboldt's gift / by Saul Bellow
- The history man / by Malcolm Bradbury
- 1976:
- The doctor's wife / by Brian Moore
- Falstaff / by Robert Nye
- 1977:
- How to save your own life / by Erica Jong
- Farewell companions / by James Plunkett
- Staying on / by Paul Scott
- 1978:
- The coup / by John Updike
- 1979:
- The unlimited dream company / by J.G. Ballard
- Dubin's lives / by Bernard Malamud
- A bend in the river / by V.S. Naipaul
- Sophie's choice / by William Styron. 1980:
- Life in the west / Brian Aldiss
- Riddley Walker / by Russell Hoban
- How far can you go? / by David Lodge
- A confederacy of dunces / by John Kennedy Toole
- 1981:
- Lanark / by Alasdair Gray
- Darconville's cat / by Alexander Theroux
- The mosquito coast / by Paul Theroux
- Creation / by Gore Vidal
- 1982:
- The rebel angels / by Robertson Davies
- 1983:
- Ancient evenings / by Norman Mailer
- Bibliography
- Index.