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1984

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Anthony Burgess's book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (Allison & Busby, 1984, ISBN 0-85031-585-9) 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 over thirty novels.

Contents

The list represents his personal choices.

In an interview with Don Swaim Burgess reveals that the book was originally commissioned by a Nigerian publishing company, and written in two weeks.

Sorted by author

  • Chinua AchebeA Man of the People – (1966)
  • Brian AldissLife in the West (1980)
  • Kingsley AmisLucky Jim (1954)
  • Kingsley AmisThe Anti-Death League (1966)
  • James Baldwin – Another Country (1962)
  • J. G. Ballard – The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
  • John BarthGiles Goat-Boy (1966)
  • Saul BellowThe Victim (1947)
  • Saul BellowHumboldt's Gift (1975)
  • Elizabeth BowenThe Heat of the Day (1949)
  • Malcolm BradburyThe History Man (1975)
  • John BraineRoom at the Top (1957)
  • Joyce CaryThe Horse's Mouth (1944)
  • Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye (1953)
  • Ivy Compton-BurnettThe Mighty and Their Fall (1961)
  • William CooperScenes from Provincial Life (1950)
  • Robertson DaviesThe Rebel Angels (1982)
  • Len DeightonBomber (1970)
  • Lawrence DurrellThe Alexandria Quartet (1957)
  • Ralph EllisonInvisible Man (1952)
  • William FaulknerThe Mansion (1959)
  • Ian FlemingGoldfinger (1959)
  • John FowlesThe French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
  • Michael FraynSweet Dreams (1973)
  • William GoldingThe Spire (1964)
  • Nadine GordimerThe Late Bourgeois World (1966)
  • Alasdair GrayLanark (1981)
  • Henry GreenParty Going (1939)
  • Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory (1940)
  • Graham GreeneThe Heart of the Matter (1948)
  • Wilson HarrisHeartland (1964)
  • L. P. Hartley – Facial Justice (1960)
  • Joseph HellerCatch-22 (1961)
  • Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  • Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea (1952)
  • Russell HobanRiddley Walker (1980)
  • Richard Hughes – The Fox in the Attic (1961)
  • Aldous HuxleyAfter Many a Summer (1939)
  • Aldous HuxleyApe and Essence (1948)
  • Aldous Huxley – Island (1962)
  • Christopher IsherwoodA Single Man (1964)
  • Pamela Hansford JohnsonAn Error of Judgement (1962)
  • Erica JongHow to Save Your Own Life (1977)
  • James JoyceFinnegans Wake (1939)
  • Doris LessingThe Golden Notebook (1962)
  • David LodgeHow Far Can You Go? (1980)
  • Malcolm LowryUnder the Volcano (1947)
  • Colin MacInnesThe London Novels (1957)
  • Norman MailerThe Naked and the Dead (1948)
  • Norman MailerAncient Evenings (1983)
  • Bernard MalamudThe Assistant (1957)
  • Bernard MalamudDubin's Lives (1979)
  • Olivia ManningThe Balkan Trilogy (1960)
  • W. Somerset Maugham – The Razor's Edge (1944)
  • Mary McCarthyThe Groves of Academe (1952)
  • Brian MooreThe Doctor's Wife (1976)
  • Iris MurdochThe Bell (1958)
  • Vladimir NabokovPale Fire (1962)
  • Vladimir NabokovThe Defense (1964)
  • V. S. Naipaul – A Bend in the River (1979)
  • R. K. Narayan – The Vendor of Sweets (1967)
  • Robert NyeFalstaff (1976)
  • Flann O'Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
  • Flannery O'Connor – Wise Blood (1952)
  • John O'HaraThe Lockwood Concern (1965)
  • George OrwellNineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
  • Mervyn PeakeTitus Groan (1946)
  • Walker PercyThe Last Gentleman (1966)
  • James PlunkettFarewell Companions (1977)
  • Anthony PowellA Dance to the Music of Time (1951)
  • J. B. Priestley – The Image Men (1968)
  • Thomas PynchonGravity's Rainbow (1973)
  • Mordecai RichlerCocksure (1968)
  • Keith RobertsPavane (1968)
  • Philip RothPortnoy's Complaint (1969)
  • J. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  • William SansomThe Body (1949)
  • Budd SchulbergThe Disenchanted (1950)
  • Paul Mark Scott – Staying On (1977)
  • Nevil ShuteNo Highway (1948)
  • Alan SillitoeSaturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
  • C. P. Snow – Strangers and Brothers (1940)
  • Muriel SparkThe Girls of Slender Means (1963)
  • Muriel SparkThe Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
  • William StyronSophie's Choice (1979)
  • Alexander TherouxDarconville's Cat (1981)
  • Paul TherouxThe Mosquito Coast (1981)
  • John Kennedy TooleA Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
  • John UpdikeThe Coup (1978)
  • Gore VidalCreation (1981)
  • Rex WarnerThe Aerodrome (1941)
  • Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited (1945)
  • Evelyn WaughSword of Honour (1952)
  • T. H. White – The Once and Future King (1958)
  • Patrick WhiteRiders in the Chariot (1961)
  • Henry WilliamsonA Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951)
  • Angus WilsonThe Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
  • Angus WilsonLate Call (1964)
  • Herman WoukThe Caine Mutiny (1951)
  • 1930s

  • 1939 – Henry Green – Party Going (1939)
  • 1939 – Aldous Huxley – After Many a Summer (1939)
  • 1939 – James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (1939)
  • 1939 – Flann O'Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
  • 1940s

  • 1940 – Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory (1940)
  • 1940 – Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  • 1940 – C. P. Snow – Strangers and Brothers (1940)
  • 1941 – Rex Warner – The Aerodrome (1941)
  • 1944 – Joyce Cary – The Horse's Mouth (1944)
  • 1944 – W. Somerset Maugham – The Razor's Edge (1944)
  • 1945 – Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited (1945)
  • 1946 – Mervyn Peake – Titus Groan (1946)
  • 1947 – Saul Bellow – The Victim (1947)
  • 1947 – Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano (1947)
  • 1949 – Elizabeth Bowen – The Heat of the Day (1949)
  • 1948 – Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter (1948)
  • 1948 – Aldous Huxley – Ape and Essence (1948)
  • 1948 – Nevil Shute – No Highway (1948)
  • 1948 – Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead (1948)
  • 1949 – George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
  • 1949 – William Sansom – The Body (1949)
  • 1950s

  • 1950 – William Cooper – Scenes from Provincial Life (1950)
  • 1950 – Budd Schulberg – The Disenchanted (1950)
  • 1951 – Anthony Powell – A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)
  • 1951 – J. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  • 1951 – Henry Williamson – A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951)
  • 1951 – Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny (1951)
  • 1952 – Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (1952)
  • 1952 – Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
  • 1952 – Mary McCarthy – The Groves of Academe (1952)
  • 1952 – Flannery O'Connor – Wise Blood (1952)
  • 1952 – Evelyn Waugh – Sword of Honour (1952)
  • 1953 – Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye (1953)
  • 1954 – Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954)
  • 1957 – John Braine – Room at the Top (1957)
  • 1957 – Lawrence Durrell – The Alexandria Quartet (1957)
  • 1957 – Colin MacInnes – The London Novels (1957)
  • 1957 – Bernard Malamud – The Assistant (1957)
  • 1958 – Iris Murdoch – The Bell (1958)
  • 1958 – Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
  • 1958 – T. H. White – The Once and Future King (1958)
  • 1959 – William Faulkner – The Mansion (1959)
  • 1959 – Ian Fleming – Goldfinger (1959)
  • 1960s

  • 1960 – L. P. Hartley – Facial Justice (1960)
  • 1960 – Olivia Manning – The Balkan Trilogy (1960)
  • 1961 – Ivy Compton-Burnett – The Mighty and Their Fall (1961)
  • 1961 – Joseph Heller – Catch-22 (1961)
  • 1961 – Richard Hughes – The Fox in the Attic (1961)
  • 1961 – Patrick White – Riders in the Chariot (1961)
  • 1961 – Angus Wilson – The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
  • 1962 – James Baldwin – Another Country (1962)
  • 1962 – Aldous Huxley – Island (1962)
  • 1962 – Pamela Hansford Johnson – An Error of Judgement (1962)
  • 1962 – Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook (1962)
  • 1962 – Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire (1962)
  • 1963 – Muriel Spark – The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
  • 1964 – William Golding – The Spire (1964)
  • 1964 – Wilson Harris – Heartland (1964)
  • 1964 – Christopher Isherwood – A Single Man (1964)
  • 1964 – Vladimir Nabokov – The Defense (1964)
  • 1964 – Angus Wilson – Late Call (1964)
  • 1965 – John O'Hara – The Lockwood Concern (1965)
  • 1965 – Muriel Spark – The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
  • 1966 – Chinua Achebe – A Man of the People (1966)
  • 1966 – Kingsley Amis – The Anti-Death League (1966)
  • 1966 – John Barth – Giles Goat-Boy (1966)
  • 1966 – Nadine Gordimer – The Late Bourgeois World (1966)
  • 1966 – Walker Percy – The Last Gentleman (1966)
  • 1967 – R. K. Narayan – The Vendor of Sweets (1967)
  • 1968 – J. B. Priestley – The Image Men (1968)
  • 1968 – Mordecai Richler – Cocksure (1968)
  • 1968 – Keith Roberts – Pavane (1968)
  • 1969 – John Fowles – The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
  • 1969 – Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
  • 1970s

  • 1970 – Len Deighton – Bomber (1970)
  • 1973 – Michael Frayn – Sweet Dreams (1973)
  • 1973 – Thomas Pynchon – Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
  • 1975 – Saul Bellow – Humboldt's Gift (1975)
  • 1975 – Malcolm Bradbury – The History Man (1975)
  • 1976 – Robert Nye – Falstaff (1976)
  • 1977 – Erica Jong – How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
  • 1977 – James Plunkett – Farewell Companions (1977)
  • 1977 – Paul Mark Scott – Staying On (1977)
  • 1978 – John Updike – The Coup (1978)
  • 1979 – J. G. Ballard – The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
  • 1979 – Bernard Malamud – Dubin's Lives (1979)
  • 1979 – Brian Moore – The Doctor's Wife (1976)
  • 1979 – V. S. Naipaul – A Bend in the River (1979)
  • 1979 – William Styron – Sophie's Choice (1979)
  • 1980s

  • 1980 – Brian Aldiss – Life in the West (1980)
  • 1980 – Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker (1980)
  • 1980 – David Lodge – How Far Can You Go? (1980)
  • 1980 – John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
  • 1981 – Alasdair Gray – Lanark (1981)
  • 1981 – Alexander Theroux – Darconville's Cat (1981)
  • 1981 – Paul Theroux – The Mosquito Coast (1981)
  • 1981 – Gore Vidal – Creation (1981)
  • 1982 – Robertson Davies – The Rebel Angels (1982)
  • 1983 – Norman Mailer – Ancient Evenings (1983)
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