Time Life Top 100 Books, Albums, Movies & TV Shows

Sad to say I've only read 10 of these books :( I'm doing better with the movies having seen around 40, but TV and Music both are at 20 give or take. Lol, I need to catch up on my pop culture!!


The All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels was a list of the "100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present" as picked by Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo. It was published in Time magazine in 2006. The full list comprises:

The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow
All The King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm (1946) by George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume
The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds (1938) by Flann O'Brien
Atonement (2002) by Ian McEwan
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories (1946) by Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep (1934) by Henry Roth
Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) by William Styron
The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975) by Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
A Death in the Family (1956) by James Agee
The Death of the Heart (1939) by Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey
Dog Soldiers (1974) by Robert Stone
Falconer (1977) by John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene
Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
Housekeeping (1980) by Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas (2001) by V. S. Naipaul
I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Loving (1945) by Henry Green
Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
Money (1984) by Martin Amis
The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch (1959) by William Burroughs
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird (1967) by Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
Play It As It Lays (1970) by Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth
Possession: A Romance (1990) by A. S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
Ragtime (1975) by E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
The Sportswriter (1986) by Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) by John le Carré
The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart (1959) by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick
Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen (serial, 1986-87) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys


2000s
The Essential Hank Williams Collection: Turn Back the Years - Hank Williams (Mercury, 2005)
The College Dropout - Kanye West (Roc a-Fella, 2004)
Portrait of a Legend 1951 - 1964 - Sam Cooke (ABKCO Music & Records, 2003)
Elvis: 30 #1 Hits - Elvis (BMG/Elvis, 2002)
The Anthology (1947-1972) - Muddy Waters (Chess, 2001)
Kid A - Radiohead (Capitol, 2000)
Stankonia - Outkast (LaFace, 2000)
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey (UMG Recordings, 2000)
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem (Interscope, 2000)

1990s
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams (Universal, 1998)
Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan (Sony, 1997)
OK Computer - Radiohead (Capitol, 1997)
Endtroducing..... - DJ Shadow (Mo' Wax, 1996)
(What's the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis (Sony, 1995)
Live Through This - Hole (Geffen, 1994)
My Life - Mary J. Blige (MCA, 1994)
Ready to Die - The Notorious B.I.G. (Bad Boy, 1994)
Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement (Matador, 1992)
The Chronic - Dr. Dre (Death Row/Interscope, 1992)
Achtung Baby - U2 (Island, 1991)
Nevermind - Nirvana (DGC Records, 1991)
Out of Time - R.E.M. (Warner Brothers, 1991)
Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969) - Various Artists (Abkco, 1991)
Ropin' the Wind - Garth Brooks (Capitol, 1991)
Star Time - James Brown (Polydor, 1991)
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest (Jive, 1991)

1980s
Like a Prayer - Madonna (Sire/London/Rhino, 1989)
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys (Capitol, 1989)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (Jive, 1989)
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy (Def Jam/Columbia, 1988)
Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A (Priority, 1988)
The Joshua Tree - U2 (Island, 1987)
Document - R.E.M. (I.R.S. Records, 1987)
Paid in Full - Eric B. and Rakim (Island, 1987)
Sign O' The Times - Prince (Paisley Park, 1987)
Graceland - Paul Simon (Warner Brothers, 1986)
Legend - Bob Marley and the Wailers (Island/Tuff Gong, 1984)
Purple Rain - Prince (Warner Brothers, 1984)
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads (Warner Brothers/Wea, 1984)
The Great Twenty-Eight - Chuck Berry (MCA, 1982)
Thriller - Michael Jackson (Sony, 1982)
Back in Black - AC/DC (Atlantic, 1980)

1970s
London Calling - The Clash (Sony, 1979)
One Nation Under a Groove - Parliament/Funkadelic (Warner Brothers, 1978)
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols (Warner Brothers/Wea, 1977)
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - (Warner Brothers, 1977)
Hotel California - The Eagles (Elektra/Wea, 1976)
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder (Motown, 2008)
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (Sony, 1975)
Horses - Patti Smith (Arista, 1975)
Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson (Sony, 1975)
Call Me - Al Green (The Right Stuff, 1973)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John (MCA, 1973)
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie (RCA, 1972)
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones (Virgin, 1972)
Talking Book - Stevie Wonder (UMG Recordings, 2008)
The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff and Various Artists (Island, 1972)
Blue - Joni Mitchell (Warner Brothers/Wea, 1971)
Coat of Many Colors - Dolly Parton (RCA, 1971)
Hunky Dory - David Bowie (RCA, 1971)
Led Zeppelin IV a.k.a. Zoso - Led Zeppelin (Wea International, 1971)
Paranoid - Black Sabbath (Warner Brothers, 1971)
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones (Virgin, 1971)
Tapestry - Carole King (Ode/A&M, 1971)
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye (Motown, 1971)
Who's Next - The Who (Mobile Fidelity, 1971)
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young (Reprise, 1970)
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia, 1970)
Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon (Apple/EMI, 1970)
Moondance - Van Morrison (Warner Brothers/Wea, 1970)

1960s
Abbey Road - The Beatles (Capitol, 1969)
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis (Sony, 1969)
Stand! - Sly & the Family Stone (Epic, 1969)
The Band - The Band (Capitol, 1969)
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (Warner Bros., 1968)
At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash (Sony, 1968)
Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin (Atlantic, 1968)
The Beatles ("The White Album") - The Beatles (Capitol, 1968)
Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MCA, 1967)
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin (Atlantic, 1967)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles (Capitol, 1967)
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground (Verve, 1967)
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1966)
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys (Capitol, 1966)
Revolver - The Beatles (Capitol, 1966)
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1965)
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul - Otis Redding (Volt, 1965)
Rubber Soul - The Beatles (Capitol, 1965)
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (Impulse!, 1964)
Live at the Apollo - James Brown (Polydor, 1963)
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Ray Charles (ABC/Paramount, 1962)
King of the Delta Blues Singers - Robert Johnson (Columbia, 1961)

1950s
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis (Columbia, 1959)
Here's Little Richard - Little Richard (Specialty, 1957)
Songs for Swingin' Lovers - Frank Sinatra (Capitol, 1956)
In the Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra (Capitol, 1955)

Movies

2000s
"Finding Nemo" directed by Andrew Stanton (Disney, 2004)
"City of God" directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund (Independent, 2001)
"Talk to Her" directed by Pedro Almodóvar (Sony Pictures Classics, 2002)
"The Lord of the Rings film trilogy" directed by Peter Jackson (New Line Cinema, 2001-2003)
"Kandahar" directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Independent, 2001)

1990s
"Ulysses' Gaze" directed by Theo Angelopoulos (Roissy Films, 1995)
"Chungking Express" directed by Wong Kar Wai (Mirimax Films, 1994)
"Drunken Master II" directed by Lau Kar-Leung (Miramax Films, 1994)
"Pulp Fiction" directed by Quentin Tarantino (Miramax Films, 1994)
"Farewell My Concubine" directed by Chen Kaige (Miramax Films, 1993)
"Schindler's List" directed by Steven Spielberg (Universal Pictures, 1993)
"Léolo" directed by Jean-Claude Lauzon (Independent, 1992)
"Unforgiven" directed by Clint Eastwood (Warner Bros., 1992)
"Goodfellas" directed by Martin Scorsese (Warner Bros., 1990)
"Miller's Crossing" directed by Joel Coen (20th Century Fox, 1990)

1980s
"The Decalogue" directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski (Independent, 1989)
"Nayakan" directed by Mani Ratnam (Sujatha Films, 1987)
"Wings of Desire" directed by Wim Wenders (MGM, 1987)
"The Fly" directed by David Cronenberg (20th Century Fox, 1986)
"The Singing Detective" directed by Jon Amiel (BBC TV, 1986)
"Brazil" directed by Terry Gilliam (Universal Pictures, 1985)
"The Purple Rose of Cairo" directed by Woody Allen (Orion Pictures, 1985)
"Blade Runner" directed by Ridley Scott (Warner Bros., 1982)
"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" directed by Steven Spielberg (Universal Studios, 1982)
"Berlin Alexanderplatz" directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (TeleCulture, 1980)
"Mon oncle d'Amérique" directed by Alain Resnais (New World Pictures, 1980)
"Raging Bull" directed by Martin Scorsese (United Artists, 1980)

1970s
"Star Wars" directed by George Lucas (20th Century Fox, 1977)
"Taxi Driver" directed by Martin Scorsese (Columbia Pictures, 1976)
"Barry Lyndon" directed by Stanley Kubrick (Warner Bros., 1975)
"Chinatown" directed by Roman Polanski (Paramount Pictures, 1974)
"Day for Night" directed by François Truffaut (Independent, 1973)
"The Godfather, Parts I and II" directed by Francis Ford Coppola (Paramount Pictures, 1972, 1974)
"Aguirre: the Wrath of God" directed by Werner Herzog (Independent, 1972)
"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" directed by Luis Buñuel (Independent, 1972)
"A Touch of Zen" directed by King Hu (Independent, 1971)

1960s
"Once Upon a Time in the West" directed by Sergio Leone (Paramount, 1968)
"Bonnie and Clyde" directed by Arthur Penn (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1967)
"Mouchette" directed by Robert Bresson (UGC, 1967)
"Closely Watched Trains" directed by Jiří Menzel (Ústřední půjčovna filmů, 1966)
"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" directed by Sergio Leone (United Artists, 1966)
"Persona" directed by Ingmar Bergman (United Artists, 1966)
"Bande à part" directed by Jean-Luc Godard (Independent, 1964)
"Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" directed by Stanley Kubrick (Columbia Pictures, 1964)
"A Hard Day's Night" directed by Richard Lester (United Artists, 1964)
"Charade" directed by Stanley Donen (Universal Pictures, 1963)
"8½" directed by Federico Fellini (Independent, 1963)
"Lawrence of Arabia" directed by David Lean (Columbia Pictures, 1962)
"The Manchurian Candidate" directed by John Frankenheimer (United Artists, 1962)
"Yojimbo" directed by Akira Kurosawa (Toho Company Ltd., 1961)
"Psycho" directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Paramount Pictures, 1960)

1950s
"The 400 Blows" directed by François Truffaut (Cocinor, 1959)
"Some Like It Hot" directed by Billy Wilder (United Artists, 1959)
"Pyaasa" directed by Guru Dutt (Independent, 1957)
"Sweet Smell of Success" directed by Alexander Mackendrick (United Artists, 1957)
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" directed by Don Siegel (Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, 1956)
"The Searchers" directed by John Ford (Warner Bros., 1956)
"The Apu Trilogy" directed by Satyajit Ray (Edward Harrison, 1955, 1956, 1959)
"Smiles of a Summer Night" directed by Ingmar Bergman (Independent, 1955)
"On the Waterfront" directed by Elia Kazan (Columbia Pictures, 1954)
"Tokyo Story" directed by Yasujiro Ozu (Shochiku, 1953)
"Ugetsu" directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Daiei, 1953)
"Ikiru" directed by Akira Kurosawa (Toho, 1952)
"Singin' in the Rain" directed by Stanley Donen (MGM, 1952)
"Umberto D" directed by Vittorio De Sica (Dear Film, 1952)
"A Streetcar Named Desire" directed by Elia Kazan (Warner Bros., 1951)
"In A Lonely Place" directed by Nicholas Ray (Columbia Pictures, 1950)

1940s
"Kind Hearts and Coronets" directed by Robert Hamer (General Film Distributors, 1949)
"White Heat" directed by Raoul Walsh (Warner Bros., 1949)
"Out of the Past" directed by Jacques Tourneur (RKO Radio Pictures, 1947)
"It's a Wonderful Life" directed by Frank Capra (RKO Radio Pictures, 1946)
"Notorious" directed by Alfred Hitchcock (RKO Radio Pictures, 1946)
"Children of Paradise" directed by Marcel Carné (Independent, 1945)
"Detour" directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (Producers Releasing Corporation, 1945)
"Double Indemnity" directed by Billy Wilder (Paramount Pictures, 1944)
"Meet Me in St. Louis" directed by Vincente Minnelli (MGM, 1944)
"Casablanca" directed by Michael Curtiz (Warner Brothers, 1942)
"Citizen Kane" directed by Orson Welles (RKO Radio Pictures, 1941)
"The Lady Eve" directed by Preston Sturges (Independent, 1941)
"His Girl Friday" directed by Howard Hawks (Columbia Pictures, 1940)
"Pinocchio" directed by Bill Roberts (RKO Radio Pictures, 1940)
"The Shop Around the Corner" directed by Ernst Lubitsch (MGM, 1940)

1930s
"Ninotchka" directed by Ernst Lubitsch (MGM, 1939)
"Olympia, Parts 1 and 2" directed by Leni Riefenstahl (Independent, 1938)
"The Awful Truth" directed by Leo McCarey (Columbia, 1937)
"Camille" directed by George Cukor (MGM, 1936)
"The Crime of Monsieur Lange" directed by Jean Renoir (Independent, 1936)
"Dodsworth" directed by William Wyler (United Artists, 1936)
"Swing Time" directed by George Stevens (RKO, 1936)
"Bride of Frankenstein" directed by James Whale (Universal Pictures, 1935)
"It's a Gift" directed by Norman Z. McLeod (Independent, 1934)
"Baby Face" directed by Alfred E. Green (Warner Bros., 1933)
"King Kong" directed by Merian C. Cooper (RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 1933)
"City Lights" directed by Charlie Chaplin (United Artists, 1931)

1920s
"The Man With a Camera" directed by Dziga Vertov (VUFKU, 1929)
"The Crowd" directed by King Vidor (MGM, 1928)
"The Last Command" directed by Josef von Sternberg (Paramount Pictures, 1928)
"Metropolis" directed by Fritz Lang (Universum Film A.G., 1927)
"Sunrise" directed by F. W. Murnau (Fox Film Corporation, 1927)
"Sherlock, Jr." directed by Buster Keaton (Metro Pictures Corporation, 1924)

TV

A-F

The Abbott and Costello Show
ABC's Wide World of Sports
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
All in the Family
An American Family
American Idol
Arrested Development
Battlestar Galactica (2004 reimagining)
Beavis and Butt-Head
The Bob Newhart Show
Brideshead Revisited
Buffalo Bill
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Carol Burnett Show
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Cheers
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
Dallas
The Day After
Deadwood
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dragnet
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ernie Kovacs Show
Felicity
Freaks and Geeks
The French Chef
Friends

G-M

General Hospital
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Gilmore Girls
Gunsmoke
Hill Street Blues
Homicide: Life on the Street
The Honeymooners
I, Claudius
I Love Lucy
King of the Hill
The Larry Sanders Show
Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)
Leave It to Beaver
Lost
Married... with Children
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H
The Monkees
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Moonlighting
MTV 1981-1992
My So-Called Life
Mystery Science Theater 3000

N-S

The Odd Couple
The Office (US)
The Office (UK)
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Pee Wee's Playhouse
Playhouse 90
The Price Is Right
Prime Suspect
The Prisoner
The Real World
Rocky and His Friends
Roots
Roseanne
Sanford and Son
Saturday Night Live
Second City Television
See It Now
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Sex and the City
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Singing Detective
Six Feet Under
60 Minutes
Soap
The Sopranos
South Park
SpongeBob SquarePants
SportsCenter
Star Trek
St. Elsewhere
The Super Bowl (and the Ads)
Survivor

T-Z

Taxi
24
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
The West Wing
What's My Line?
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Wire
Wiseguy
The X-Files
Your Show of Shows