The best 60 books of the past 60 years - From The Times

1949 
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell

1950 
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis

1951 
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger

1952 
Pigs Have Wings
P. G. Wodehouse

1953 
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming

1954 
Lord of the Flies
William Golding

1955 
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

1956 
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Dodie Smith

1957 
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

1958 
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene

1959 
The Leopard
Giuseppe di Lampedusa

1960 
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

1961 
Catch 22
Joseph Heller

1962 
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing

1963 
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

1964 
Funeral in Berlin
Len Deighton

1965 
Dune
Frank Herbert

1966 
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys

1967 
Towards the End of the Morning
Michael Frayn

1968 
2001
Arthur C. Clarke

1969 
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Fowles

1970 
Play it as it Lays
Joan Didion

1971 
Americana
Don DeLillo

1972 
Watership Down
Richard Adams

1973 
Crash
J. G. Ballard

1974 
Fear of Flying
Erica Jong

1975 
Salem’s Lot
Stephen King

1976 
Even Cowgirls get the Blues
Tom Robbins

1977 
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick

1978 
The World According to Garp
John Irving

1979 
Smiley’s People
John le Carré

1980 
Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess

1981 
Lanark
Alasdair Gray

1982 
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende

1983 
Waterland
Graham Swift

1984 
Money
Martin Amis

1985 
Love in The Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1986 
Tourist Season
Carl Hiaasen

1987 
More Die of Heartbreak
Saul Bellow

1988 
Mother London
Michael Moorcock

1989 
Sexing the Cherry
Jeannette Winterson

1990 
Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard

1991 
The Famished Road
Ben Okri

1992 
The Secret History
Donna Tartt

1993 
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh

1994 
How Late it Was, How Late
James Kelman

1995 
Northern Lights
Philip Pullman

1996
Angela’s Ashes
Frank McCourt

1997 
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
J. K. Rowling

1998 
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami

1999 
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

2000 
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

2001 
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

2002 
Atonement
Ian McEwan

2003 
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Audrey Niffenegger

2004 
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst

2005 
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer

2006 
The Road
Cormac McCarthy

2007 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini

2008 
Netherland
Joseph O’Neill

2009 
The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters

I read only two four of them, pretty bad



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