(NOTE: This is just my personal opinion. If you disagree with a placement, that’s fine! This is only the opinion of one person, and literature is incredibly subjective.)

1. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
2. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)
3. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
4. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954-55)