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,[1] Burgess revealed that the book was originally commissioned by a Nigerian publishing company and written in two weeks.
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Ninety Nine Novels The Best in English since 1939 A Personal Choice is an essay by British writer Anthony Burgess published by Allison amp 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 1 Burgess revealed that the book was originally commissioned by a Nigerian publishing company and written in two weeks First edition publ Allison amp Busby Cover art Richard Willson Contents 1 The List 2 Podcast 2 1 Series One 2 2 Series Two 3 References 4 External linksThe List EditAuthor Title YearChinua Achebe A Man of the People 1966Brian Aldiss Life in the West 1980Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim 1954Kingsley Amis The Anti Death League 1966James Baldwin Another Country 1962J G Ballard The Unlimited Dream Company 1979John Barth Giles Goat Boy 1966Saul Bellow The Victim 1947Saul Bellow Humboldt s Gift 1975Elizabeth Bowen The Heat of the Day 1949Malcolm Bradbury The History Man 1975John Braine Room at the Top 1957Joyce Cary The Horse s Mouth 1944Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye 1953Ivy Compton Burnett The Mighty and Their Fall 1961William Cooper Scenes from Provincial Life 1950Robertson Davies The Rebel Angels 1982Len Deighton Bomber 1970Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet 1957Ralph Ellison Invisible Man 1952William Faulkner The Mansion 1959Ian Fleming Goldfinger 1959John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman 1969Michael Frayn Sweet Dreams 1973William Golding The Spire 1964Nadine Gordimer The Late Bourgeois World 1966Alasdair Gray Lanark 1981Henry Green Party Going 1939Graham Greene The Power and the Glory 1940Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter 1948Wilson Harris Heartland 1964L P Hartley Facial Justice 1960Joseph Heller Catch 22 1961Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 1952Russell Hoban Riddley Walker 1980Richard Hughes The Fox in the Attic 1961Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer 1939Aldous Huxley Ape and Essence 1948Aldous Huxley Island 1962Christopher Isherwood A Single Man 1964Pamela Hansford Johnson An Error of Judgement 1962Erica Jong How to Save Your Own Life 1977James Joyce Finnegans Wake 1939Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook 1962David Lodge How Far Can You Go 1980Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano 1947Colin MacInnes The London Novels 1957Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead 1948Norman Mailer Ancient Evenings 1983Bernard Malamud The Assistant 1957Bernard Malamud Dubin s Lives 1979Olivia Manning The Balkan Trilogy 1960W Somerset Maugham The Razor s Edge 1944Mary McCarthy The Groves of Academe 1952Brian Moore The Doctor s Wife 1976Iris Murdoch The Bell 1958Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire 1962Vladimir Nabokov The Defense 1964V S Naipaul A Bend in the River 1979R K Narayan The Vendor of Sweets 1967Robert Nye Falstaff 1976Flann O Brien At Swim Two Birds 1939Flannery O Connor Wise Blood 1952John O Hara The Lockwood Concern 1965George Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four 1949Mervyn Peake Titus Groan 1946Walker Percy The Last Gentleman 1966James Plunkett Farewell Companions 1977Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time 1951J B Priestley The Image Men 1968Thomas Pynchon Gravity s Rainbow 1973Mordecai Richler Cocksure 1968Keith Roberts Pavane 1968Philip Roth Portnoy s Complaint 1969J D Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 1951William Sansom The Body 1949Budd Schulberg The Disenchanted 1950Paul Mark Scott Staying On 1977Nevil Shute No Highway 1948Alan Sillitoe Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1958C P Snow Strangers and Brothers 1940Muriel Spark The Girls of Slender Means 1963Muriel Spark The Mandelbaum Gate 1965William Styron Sophie s Choice 1979Alexander Theroux Darconville s Cat 1981Paul Theroux The Mosquito Coast 1981John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces 1980John Updike The Coup 1978Gore Vidal Creation 1981Rex Warner The Aerodrome 1941Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited 1945Evelyn Waugh Sword of Honour 1952T H White The Once and Future King 1958Patrick White Riders in the Chariot 1961Henry Williamson A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight 1951Angus Wilson The Old Men at the Zoo 1961Angus Wilson Late Call 1964Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny 1951Podcast EditIn January 2022 the International Anthony Burgess Foundation began a podcast examining each of Burgess s Ninety Nine Novels 2 Series One Edit 1 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce with Enrico Terrinoni 3 2 Wise Blood by Flannery O Connor with Alison Arant 4 3 Giles Goat Boy by John Barth with David Morrell 5 4 Heartland by Wilson Harris with Michael Mitchell 6 5 Gravity s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon with Simon Malpas 7 6 The Bell by Iris Murdoch with Avril Horner 8 7 A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul with Will Ghosh 9 8 Party Going by Henry Green with Marius Hentea 10 9 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe with James Walker 11 Series Two Edit 1 Goldfinger by Ian Fleming with Kim Sherwood 12 2 The Unlimited Dream Company by J G Ballard with David Ian Paddy 13 3 Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell with John Bowen 14 4 The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen with Jessica Gildersleeve 15 5 Pavane by Keith Roberts with Glyn Morgan 16 6 The Girls of Slender Means and The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark with Alan Taylor 17 7 Bomber by Len Deighton with Rob Mallows 18 8 For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway with Mary Dearborn 19 9 The Spire by William Golding with Tim Kendall 20 10 The Once and Future King by T H White with Elizabeth Elliott 21 References Edit 1985 interview with Anthony Burgess Archived 11 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Burgess Foundation Podcast Ninety Nine Novels Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Ninety Nine Novels Wise Blood by Flannery O Connor Ninety Nine Novels Giles Goat Boy by John Barth Ninety Nine Novels Heartland by Wilson Harris Ninety Nine Novels Gravity s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Ninety Nine Novels The Bell by Iris Murdoch Ninety Nine Novels A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul Ninety Nine Novels Party Going by Henry Green Ninety Nine Novels Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe Ninety Nine Novels Goldfinger by Ian Fleming Ninety Nine Novels The Unlimited Dream Company by J G Ballard Ninety Nine Novels Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell Ninety Nine Novels The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen Ninety Nine Novels Pavane by Keith Roberts Ninety Nine Novels Two Novels by Muriel Spark Ninety Nine Novels Bomber by Len Deighton Ninety Nine Novels Two Novels by Ernest Hemingway Ninety Nine Novels The Spire by William Golding Ninety Nine Novels The Once and Future King by T H White External links Edit Modern Novels The 99 Best by Anthony Burgess New York Times February 5 1984 full text of Introduction Deccan Herald April 11 2004 Big novel shrinking universe Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ninety nine Novels amp oldid 1154971267, wikipedia, 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