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Modern Library's 100 Best Novels
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- 01. Ulysses - James Joyce
- 02. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 03. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- 04. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- 05. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- 06. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- 07. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- 08. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
- 09. Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
- 10. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- 11. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
- 12. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
- 13. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- 14. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
- 15. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- 16. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
- 17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
- 18. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- 19. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- 20. Native Son - Richard Wright
- 21. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
- 22. Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
- 23. U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
- 24. Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
- 25. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
- 26. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
- 27. The Ambassadors - Henry James
- 28. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy - James T. Farrell
- 30. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
- 31. Animal Farm - George Orwell
- 32. The Golden Bowl - Henry James
- 33. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
- 34. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
- 35. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
- 36. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
- 37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
- 38. Howards End - E. M. Forster
- 39. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
- 40. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
- 41. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- 42. Deliverance - James Dickey
- 43. A Dance to the Music of the Time - Anthony Powell
- 44. Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley
- 45. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- 46. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
- 47. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
- 48. The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
- 49. Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
- 50. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- 51. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
- 52. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
- 53. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- 54. Light in August - William Faulkner
- 55. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- 56. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
- 57. Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
- 58. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- 59. Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm
- 60. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
- 61. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
- 62. From Here to Eternity - James Jones
- 63. The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
- 64. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
- 65. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- 66. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- 67. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- 68. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
- 69. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- 70. The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
- 71. A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
- 72. A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
- 73. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
- 74. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- 75. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
- 76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
- 77. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
- 78. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
- 79. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
- 80. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- 81. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
- 82. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
- 83. A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul
- 84. The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
- 85. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
- 86. Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
- 87. The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
- 88. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
- 89. Loving - Henry Green
- 90. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- 91. Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
- 92. Ironweed - William Kennedy
- 93. The Magus - John Fowles
- 94. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
- 95. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
- 96. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
- 97. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
- 98. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
- 99. The Ginger Man - J. P. Donleavy
- 100. The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
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