Books found in Anthony Burgess’s book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (1984)
- Henry Green – Party Going (1939)
- Aldous Huxley – After Many a Summer (1939)
- James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (1939)
- Flann O’Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
- Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory (1940)
- Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- C.P. Snow – Strangers and Brothers (1940)
- Rex Warner – The Aerodrome (1941)
- Joyce Cary – The Horse’s Mouth (1944)
- Somerset Maugham – The Razor’s Edge (1944)
- Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited (1945)
- Mervyn Peake – Titus Groan (1946)
- Saul Bellow – The Victim (1947)
- Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano (1947)
- Elizabeth Bowen – The Heat of the Day (1949)
- Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter (1948)
- Aldous Huxley – Ape and Essence (1948)
- Nevil Shute – No Highway (1948)
- Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead (1948)
- George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
- William Sansom – The Body (1949)
- William Cooper – Scenes from Provincial Life (1950)
- Budd Schulberg – The Disenchanted (1950)
- Anthony Powell – A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)
- J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
- Henry Williamson – A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951)
- Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny (1951)
- Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (1952)
- Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
- Mary McCarthy – The Groves of Academe (1952)
- Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood (1952)
- Evelyn Waugh – Sword of Honour (1952)
- Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye (1953)
- Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954)
- John Braine – Room at the Top (1957)
- Lawrence Durrell – The Alexandria Quartet (1957)
- Colin MacInnes – The London Novels (1957)
- Bernard Malamud – The Assistant (1957)
- Iris Murdoch – The Bell (1958)
- Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
- T.H. White – The Once and Future King (1958)
- William Faulkner – The Mansion (1959)
- Ian Fleming – Goldfinger (1959)
- L.P. Hartley – Facial Justice (1960)
- Olivia Manning – The Balkan Trilogy (1960)
- Ivy Compton-Burnett – The Mighty and Their Fall (1961)
- Joseph Heller – Catch-22 (1961)
- Richard Hughes – The Fox in the Attic (1961)
- Patrick White – Riders in the Chariot (1961)
- Angus Wilson – The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
- James Baldwin – Another Country (1962)
- Aldous Huxley – Island (1962)
- Pamela Hansford Johnson – An Error of Judgement (1962)
- Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook (1962)
- Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire (1962)
- Muriel Spark – The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
- William Golding – The Spire (1964)
- Wilson Harris – Heartland (1964)
- Christopher Isherwood – A Single Man (1964)
- Vladimir Nabokov – The Defense (1964)
- Angus Wilson – Late Call (1964)
- John O’Hara – The Lockwood Concern (1965)
- Muriel Spark – The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
- Chinua Achebe – A Man of the People (1966)
- Kingsley Amis – The Anti-Death League (1966)
- John Barth – Giles Goat-Boy (1966)
- Nadine Gordimer – The Late Bourgeois World (1966)
- Walker Percy – The Last Gentleman (1966)
- R.K. Narayan – The Vendor of Sweets (1967)
- J.B. Priestley – The Image Men (1968)
- Mordecai Richler – Cocksure (1968)
- Keith Roberts – Pavane (1968)
- John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)
- Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
- Len Deighton – Bomber (1970)
- Michael Frayn – Sweet Dreams (1973)
- Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
- Saul Bellow – Humboldt’s Gift (1975)
- Malcolm Bradbury – The History Man (1975)
- Robert Nye – Falstaff (1976)
- Erica Jong – How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
- James Plunkett – Farewell Companions (1977)
- Paul Mark Scott – Staying On (1977)
- John Updike – The Coup (1978)
- J.G. Ballard – The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
- Bernard Malamud – Dubin’s Lives (1979)
- Brian Moore – The Doctor’s Wife (1976)
- V.S. Naipaul – A Bend in the River (1979)
- William Styron – Sophie’s Choice (1979)
- Brian Aldiss – Life in the West (1980)
- Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker (1980)
- David Lodge – How Far Can You Go? (1980)
- John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
- Alasdair Gray – Lanark (1981)
- Alexander Theroux – Darconville’s Cat (1981)
- Paul Theroux – The Mosquito Coast (1981)
- Gore Vidal – Creation (1981)
- Robertson Davies – The Rebel Angels (1982)
- Norman Mailer – Ancient Evenings (1983)