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Ninety-nine Novels

1984 book by Anthony Burgess

Summary

1984 book by Anthony Burgess

First edition (publ. [[Allison & Busby]])<br />Cover art Richard Willson

Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice is an essay by British writer Anthony Burgess, published by Allison & Busby in 1984. It covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for The Yorkshire Post. In the course of his career he wrote more than 30 novels. The list represents his choices; in an interview with Don Swaim, Burgess revealed that the book was originally commissioned by a Nigerian publishing company and written in two weeks.

The List

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

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