Books found in Anthony Burgess’s book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (1984)

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