Anthony Burgess 99 Post War Novels

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Another Country
by James Baldwin
3,019 members
42 reviews
4.1
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,333 members
116 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
12,803 members
264 reviews
4
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1984
by George Orwell
83,901 members
1,293 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,611 members
107 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: A personal favourite.
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
70,732 members
1,092 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
15,682 members
207 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Girls of Slender Means
by Muriel Spark
1,344 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,677 members
536 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
21,736 members
479 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
31,469 members
506 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
5,888 members
155 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
6,362 members
118 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
5,165 members
84 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
3,941 members
112 reviews
3.8
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,539 members
213 reviews
4
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Explanations
ahef1963 : Have tried to read it a couple of times, but I can't understand it at all.
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The Balkan Trilogy
by Olivia Manning
1,138 members
31 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
7,902 members
126 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
19,380 members
188 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
2,288 members
83 reviews
4
2 Members
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At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
3,316 members
63 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Man of the People
by Chinua Achebe
880 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
5,450 members
59 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Mosquito Coast
by Paul Theroux
2,287 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Farewell Companions
by James Plunkett
70 members
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Last Gentleman: A Novel
by Walker Percy
920 members
10 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Titus Groan
by Mervyn Peake
4,170 members
100 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,216 members
48 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk
3,362 members
60 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,105 members
89 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,482 members
155 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Creation
by Gore Vidal
1,595 members
24 reviews
4
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Life in the West
by Brian W. Aldiss
106 members
1 review
3.1
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Riders in the Chariot
by Patrick White
697 members
19 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: An absolute beauty of a book.
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The Anti-Death League
by Kingsley Amis
362 members
7 reviews
3.2
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The Unlimited Dream Company
by J. G. Ballard
603 members
18 reviews
½ 3.4
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Giles Goat-Boy
by John Barth
1,335 members
14 reviews
3.8
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Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow
3,044 members
38 reviews
3.8
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The Victim
by Saul Bellow
873 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Heat of the Day
by Elizabeth Bowen
1,106 members
27 reviews
½ 3.4
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The History Man
by Malcolm Bradbury
844 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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Room at the Top
by John Braine
664 members
13 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Horse's Mouth
by Joyce Cary
1,246 members
19 reviews
3.9
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The Mighty and Their Fall
by Ivy Compton-Burnett
89 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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Scenes from Provincial Life
by William Cooper
123 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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The Rebel Angels
by Robertson Davies
1,682 members
29 reviews
3.9
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Bomber
by Len Deighton
715 members
21 reviews
4.1
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The Alexandria Quartet
by Lawrence Durrell
2,159 members
28 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Mansion
by William Faulkner
731 members
2 reviews
4
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Goldfinger
by Ian Fleming
3,452 members
63 reviews
½ 3.6
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Sweet Dreams
by Michael Frayn
139 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Spire
by William Golding
1,167 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Late Bourgeois World
by Nadine Gordimer
216 members
3 reviews
3.8
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Lanark
by Alasdair Gray
2,089 members
37 reviews
4
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Party Going
by Henry Green
305 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
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Heartland
by Wilson Harris
32 members
2.8
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Facial Justice
by L. P. Hartley
143 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
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Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,362 members
26 reviews
4.2
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The Fox in the Attic
by Richard Hughes
450 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
by Aldous Huxley
1,228 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
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Ape and Essence
by Aldous Huxley
1,358 members
18 reviews
½ 3.4
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Island
by Aldous Huxley
4,339 members
66 reviews
3.8
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The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
5,472 members
94 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : Found it incomprehensible.
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An Error of Judgement
by Pamela Hansford Johnson
61 members
2 reviews
3.8
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How to Save Your Own Life
by Erica Jong
660 members
7 reviews
½ 3.3
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How Far Can You Go?
by David Lodge
703 members
8 reviews
3.8
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The London Novels
by Colin MacInnes
91 members
3 reviews
4
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Ancient Evenings
by Norman Mailer
1,304 members
19 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
1,598 members
29 reviews
3.9
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Dubin's Lives
by Bernard Malamud
519 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Groves of Academe
by Mary McCarthy
339 members
8 reviews
3.2
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The Doctor's Wife
by Brian Moore
236 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Bell
by Iris Murdoch
2,069 members
49 reviews
3.8
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The Defense
by Vladimir Nabokov
1,783 members
38 reviews
3.9
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
8,088 members
142 reviews
4.2
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A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
3,240 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Vendor of Sweets
by R. K. Narayan
325 members
3 reviews
3.8
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Falstaff
by Robert Nye
275 members
3 reviews
3.8
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The Lockwood Concern
by John O'Hara
120 members
1 review
3.1
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A Dance to the Music of Time
by Anthony Powell
151 members
6 reviews
½ 4.6
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The Image Men
by J. B. Priestley
47 members
1 review
3.9
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
10,960 members
146 reviews
4
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Cocksure
by Mordecai Richler
283 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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Pavane
by Keith Roberts
1,413 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Body
by William Sansom
57 members
1 review
4
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The Disenchanted
by Budd Schulberg
221 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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Staying On
by Paul Scott
908 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
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No Highway
by Nevil Shute
601 members
21 reviews
3.9
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
by Alan Sillitoe
1,069 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
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George Passant
by C. P. Snow
202 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Mandelbaum Gate
by Muriel Spark
527 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
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Darconville's Cat
by Alexander Theroux
400 members
13 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Coup
by John Updike
821 members
6 reviews
3.2
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The Aerodrome
by Rex Warner
249 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy
by Evelyn Waugh
1,125 members
18 reviews
4.2
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A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight
by Henry Williamson
1 member
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Late Call
by Angus Wilson
108 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Old Men at the Zoo
by Angus Wilson
186 members
4 reviews
3
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Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,496 members
90 reviews
3.8
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Explanations
ahef1963 : I've started it twice, but boredom made it impossible to finish.