These are the 99 best novels (in alphabetical order of author's surname) in English since 1939 as chosen by Anthony Burgess with links to reviews in this blog.
Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People (1966)
Brian Aldiss: Life in the West (1980)
Brian Aldiss: Life in the West (1980)
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim (1954)
Kingsley Amis: The Anti-Death League (1966)
James Baldwin: Another Country (1962)
J G Ballard: The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
"Blindingly original ... Moving, thrilling, exquisitely written"
John Barth: Giles, Goat Boy (1966)
Saul Bellow: The Victim (1947)
Saul Bellow: Humboldt's Gift (1975)
Elizabeth Bowen: The Heat of the Day (1949)
Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man (1975)
John Braine: Room at the Top (1957)
Joyce Cary: The Horse's Mouth (1944)
Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953)
Ivy Compton-Burnett: The Mighty and Their Fall (1961)
William Cooper: Scenes from Provincial Life (1950)
Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels (1982)
Len Deighton: Bomber (1970)
Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandria Quartet (1957)
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1952)
William Faulkner: The Mansion (1959)
Ian Fleming: Goldfinger (1959)
John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
Michael Frayn: Sweet Dreams (1973)
William Golding: The Spire (1964)
Nadime Gordimer: The Late Bourgeois World (1966)
Alasdair Gray: Lanark (1981)
Henry Green: Party Going (1939)
Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940)
Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter (1948)
Wilson Harris: Heartland (1964)
L P Hartley: Facial Justice (1960)
Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961)
Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker (1980)
Richard Hughes: The Fox in the Attic (1961)
Aldous Huxley: After Many a Summer (1939)
Aldous Huxley: Ape and Essence (1948)
Aldous Huxley: Island (1962)
Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man (1964)
Pamela Hansford-Johnson: An Error of Judgement (1962)
Erica Jong: How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
James Joyce: Finnegans Wake (1939)
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook (1962)
David Lodge: How Far Can You Go? (1980)
Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano (1947)
Colin MaaInnes: The London Novels (1957)
Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Norman Mailer: Ancient Evenings (1983)
Beranrd Malamud: The Assistant (1957)
Bernard Malamud: Dubin's Lives (1979)
Olivia Manning: The Balkan Trilogy (1960)
W Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge (1944)
Mary McCarthy: The Groves of Academe (1952)
Brian Moore: The Doctor's Wife (1976)
Iris Murdoch: The Bell (1958)
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fore (1962)
Vladimir Nabokov: The Defense (1964)
V S Naipaul: The Bend in the River (1979)
R K Narayan: The Vendor of Sweets (1967)
Robert Nye: Falstaff (1976)
Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood (1952)
John O'Hara: The Lockwood Concern (1965)
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1946)
Wlater Percy: The Last Gentleman (1966)
James Plunkett: Farewell Companions (1977)
Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)
J B Priestley: The Image Men (1968)
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Mordecai Richler: Cocksure (1968)
Keith Roberts: Pavane (1968)
Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
J D Salinger: Catcher in the Rye (1951)
William Samson: The Body (1949)
Budd Schulberg: The Disenchanted (1950)
Paul Mark Scott: Staying On (1977)
Nevil Shute: No Highway (1948)
Alan Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
C P Snow: Strangers and Brothers (1940)
Muriel Spark: The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
Muriel Spark: The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
William Styron: Sophie's Choice (1979)
Alexander Theroux: Darconville's Cat (1981)
Paul Theroux: The Mosquito Coast (1981)
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
JohnUpdike: The Coup (1978)
Gore Vidal: Creation (1981)
Rex Warner: The Aerodrome (1941)
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Evelyn Waugh: Sword of Homour (1952)
T H White: The Once and Future King (1958)
Patrick White: Riders in the Chariot (1961)
Henry Williamson: A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951)
Angus Wilson: The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
Angus Wilson: Late Call (1964)
Herman Wouk: The Caine Mutiny (1951)
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