Ninety-nine Novels

Ninety-nine Novels
1984 Simon & Schuster edition

Anthony Burgess's book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (1984, ISBN 0-85031-585-9) covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for the Yorkshire Post. In the course of his career he wrote over thirty novels.

The list represents his personal choices.

In an interview with Don Swaim[1] Burgess reveals that the book was originally commissioned by a Nigerian publishing company, and written in two weeks.

Contents

Sorted by author

Sorted by date

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

References

  1. ^ 1985 interview with Anthony Burgess

External links

v · d · eWorks of Anthony Burgess
Novels
Short stories
Poetry
Moses: A Narrative · Revolutionary Sonnets
Essays
An Essay on Censorship · Homage to Qwert Yuiop · One Man's Chorus
Critical works
Shakespeare · Joysprick · Ninety-Nine Novels · A Mouthful of Air
Operettas
Symphonies
Autobiography

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