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November 04, 2005

Time Magazine's All Time 100 Novels Book List

Time Magazine critics, Lev Grossman & Richard Lacayo, make their picks for the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. The list includes many of the usual suspects (The Great Gatsby, 1984, Gone with the Wind) but it also includes some unusual titles, many of them current.

Kazuo Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.