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TIME 100 best novels

Order these acclaimed novels by the year each was published. Place all 36 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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How TIME 100 best novels is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 36 cards you could be dealt, plus 8 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
  • The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
  • To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
  • Light in August William Faulkner
  • Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
  • Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
  • The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
  • The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
  • Native Son Richard Wright
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
  • All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
  • Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
  • The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
  • The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
  • Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
  • Lord of the Flies William Golding
  • The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
  • On the Road Jack Kerouac
  • Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
  • Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs
  • Catch-22 Joseph Heller
  • A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carre
  • Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
  • Beloved Toni Morrison
  • Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
  • Atonement Ian McEwan

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