Anthony Burgess 99 Post War Novels

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Another Country
by James Baldwin
2,956 members
41 reviews
4.1
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,246 members
114 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
12,632 members
265 reviews
4
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1984
by George Orwell
82,451 members
1,276 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,563 members
108 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
69,843 members
1,086 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
15,400 members
207 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Girls of Slender Means
by Muriel Spark
1,324 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,182 members
529 reviews
4.1
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
21,483 members
477 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
30,882 members
508 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
5,825 members
155 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
6,261 members
118 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
5,098 members
84 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
3,883 members
112 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,266 members
212 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
1,113 members
31 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
7,794 members
124 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
19,065 members
186 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
2,238 members
85 reviews
4
2 Members
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At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
3,287 members
63 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Man of the People
by Chinua Achebe
863 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
5,357 members
60 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Mosquito Coast
by Paul Theroux
2,269 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Farewell Companions
by James Plunkett
68 members
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Last Gentleman: A Novel
by Walker Percy
908 members
10 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Titus Groan
by Mervyn Peake
4,105 members
100 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,151 members
47 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk
3,316 members
59 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,021 members
87 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,404 members
155 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Creation
by Gore Vidal
1,580 members
24 reviews
4
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Life in the West
by Brian W. Aldiss
105 members
1 review
3.1
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Riders in the Chariot
by Patrick White
687 members
20 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
363 members
7 reviews
3.2
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The Unlimited Dream Company
by J. G. Ballard
598 members
18 reviews
½ 3.4
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Giles Goat-Boy
by John Barth
1,318 members
14 reviews
3.8
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Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow
3,004 members
39 reviews
3.8
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The Victim
by Saul Bellow
865 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Heat of the Day
by Elizabeth Bowen
1,103 members
27 reviews
½ 3.4
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The History Man
by Malcolm Bradbury
835 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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Room at the Top
by John Braine
657 members
13 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Horse's Mouth
by Joyce Cary
1,218 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
121 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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The Rebel Angels
by Robertson Davies
1,670 members
29 reviews
3.9
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Bomber
by Len Deighton
701 members
21 reviews
4
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The Alexandria Quartet
by Lawrence Durrell
2,131 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Mansion
by William Faulkner
724 members
2 reviews
4
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Goldfinger
by Ian Fleming
3,403 members
64 reviews
½ 3.6
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Sweet Dreams
by Michael Frayn
134 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Spire
by William Golding
1,153 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
2,052 members
37 reviews
4
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Party Going
by Henry Green
299 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
142 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
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Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,347 members
25 reviews
4.2
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The Fox in the Attic
by Richard Hughes
448 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
by Aldous Huxley
1,207 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
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Ape and Essence
by Aldous Huxley
1,332 members
16 reviews
½ 3.4
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Island
by Aldous Huxley
4,268 members
63 reviews
3.8
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The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
5,414 members
93 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
657 members
7 reviews
½ 3.3
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How Far Can You Go?
by David Lodge
702 members
8 reviews
3.8
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The London Novels
by Colin MacInnes
87 members
2 reviews
4
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Ancient Evenings
by Norman Mailer
1,287 members
20 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
1,577 members
29 reviews
3.9
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Dubin's Lives
by Bernard Malamud
514 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Groves of Academe
by Mary McCarthy
334 members
7 reviews
3.2
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The Doctor's Wife
by Brian Moore
235 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Bell
by Iris Murdoch
2,044 members
49 reviews
3.8
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The Defense
by Vladimir Nabokov
1,752 members
38 reviews
3.9
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,969 members
140 reviews
4.2
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A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
3,202 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Vendor of Sweets
by R. K. Narayan
322 members
3 reviews
3.8
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Falstaff
by Robert Nye
272 members
4 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
150 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
10,810 members
141 reviews
4.1
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Cocksure
by Mordecai Richler
279 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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Pavane
by Keith Roberts
1,405 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Body
by William Sansom
56 members
1 review
4
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The Disenchanted
by Budd Schulberg
219 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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Staying On
by Paul Scott
895 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
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No Highway
by Nevil Shute
594 members
21 reviews
3.9
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
by Alan Sillitoe
1,060 members
17 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
520 members
13 reviews
½ 3.5
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Darconville's Cat
by Alexander Theroux
388 members
12 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Coup
by John Updike
814 members
6 reviews
3.2
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The Aerodrome
by Rex Warner
240 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy
by Evelyn Waugh
1,105 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
183 members
3 reviews
3.1
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Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,429 members
89 reviews
3.8
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Explanations
ahef1963 : I've started it twice, but boredom made it impossible to finish.