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Nigel points to Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-Language novels from 1923 to the present. Nigel says he's read half of the books on the list, so I feel I've come up short having read only 33 of "All-Time 100 Novels." (A list of the books I've read is below.) Somewhat surprisingly, only about half I did read were books I read as an English undergrad. But many of the books like The Big Sleep, Neuromancer, and Snow Crash are wonderful popular works that my profs probably overlooked. The list also includes a fair number of works like Infinite Jest and The Recognitions that I found so tedious that I never finished them. Finally, there are a few choices that I would substitute another book by the same author. For example, I'd pick My Antonia over Death Comes for the Archbishop, and everyone probably has a different favorite Hemmingway. Regardless, these lists are for nitpicking and arguing over, so I guess I'm playing right into the Time-Warner media empire's hands.

Books I've read from Time's100 Best English Language Novels:
All the King's Men
Beloved
The Big Sleep
Blood Meridian
The Catcher in the Rye
The Crying of Lot 49
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Deliverance
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity's Rainbow
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Invisible Man
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Mrs. Dalloway
Naked Lunch
Neuromancer
1984
On the Road
Pale Fire
A Passage to India
Portnoy's Complaint
The Sheltering Sky
Slaughterhouse-Five
Snow Crash
The Sound and the Fury
The Sun Also Rises
To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse
Tropic of Cancer
White Noise
Wide Sargasso Sea