If you’re looking for a good book to read, Time magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo have picked the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
The list includes such titles as “Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck; “To Kill a Mockingbird,“ by Harper Lee; “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald; “Slaughterhouse-Five,” by Kurt Vonnegut; “Gone With the Wind,” by Margaret Mitchell; “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” by John le Carre; “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” by Muriel Spark; “Lolita,“ by Vladimir Nabokov; “Lord of the Flies,” by William Golding; and “The Lord of the Rings,” by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The list is arranged alphabetically, so all titles carry equal weight. To read the list, visit online at http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html.
(Kay Johnson is a staff writer for the Leader. She can be reached at johnson@hutchinsonleader.com.)

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