Modern Library’s 100 Novels Challenge

Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels

Editors’ Choices (24/100)

1.     ULYSSES by James Joyce

2.     THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.     A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

4.     LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

5.     BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

6.     THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

7.     CATCH-22

8.     DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler

9.     SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence

10.  THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

11.  UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

12.  THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler

13.  1984 by George Orwell

14.  I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

15.  TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

16.  AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser

17.  THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

18.  SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

19.  INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

20.  NATIVE SON by Richard Wright

21.  HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow

22.  APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara

23.  U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos

24.  WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson

25.  A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster

26.  THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James

27.  THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James

28.  TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald

29.  THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell

30.  THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford

31.  ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

32.  THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James

33.  SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

34.  A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh

35.  AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

36.  ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren

37.  THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder

38.  HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster

39.  GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin

40.  THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene

41.  LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

42.  DELIVERANCE by James Dickey

43.  A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell

44.  POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley

45.  THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

46.  THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad

47.  NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad

48.  THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence

49.  WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence

50.  TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

51.  THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

52.  PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth

53.  PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov

54.  LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

55.  ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

56.  THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett

57.  PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford

58.  THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton

59.  ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm

60.  THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

61.  DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather

62.  FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones

63.  THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever

64.  THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

65.  A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

66.  OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

67.  HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

68.  MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis

69.  THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton

70.  THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell

71.  A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes

72.  A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul

73.  THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West

74.  A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

75.  SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh

76.  THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark

77.  FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce

78.  KIM by Rudyard Kipling

79.  A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster

80.  BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

81.  THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow

82.  ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner

83.  A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul

84.  THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen

85.  LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad

86.  RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow

87.  THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett

88.  THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

89.  LOVING by Henry Green

90.  MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie

91.  TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell

92.  IRONWEED by William Kennedy

93.  THE MAGUS by John Fowles

94.  WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys

95.  UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch

96.  SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron

97.  THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

98.  THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain

99.  THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy

100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

 (36/100)

1.  ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

2.  THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

3.  BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

4.  THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

5.  TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

6.  1984 by George Orwell

7.  ANTHEM by Ayn Rand

8.  WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand

9.  MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

10.  FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard

11.  ULYSSES by James Joyce

12.  CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

13.  THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14.  DUNE by Frank Herbert

15.  THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein

16.  STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein

17.  A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute

18.  BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

19.  THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

20.  ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

21.  GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

22.  THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

23.  SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

24.  GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

25.  LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

26.  SHANE by Jack Schaefer

27.  TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute

28.  A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving

29.  THE STAND by Stephen King

30.  THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN by John Fowles

31.  BELOVED by Toni Morrison

32.  THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison

33.  THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

34.  LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

35.  MOONHEART by Charles de Lint

36.  ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner

37.  OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

38.  WISE BLOOD by Flannery O’Connor

39.  UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

40.  FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies

41.  SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint

42.  ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

43.  HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

44.  YARROW by Charles de Lint

45.  AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft

46.  ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane

47.  MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint

48.  TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

49.  THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

50.  TRADER by Charles de Lint

51.  THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams

52.  THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

53.  THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood

54.  BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy

55.  A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

56.  ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute

57.  A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

58.  GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint

59.  ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card

60.  THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint

61.  THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis

62.  STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein

63.  THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

64.  THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving

65.  SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury

66.  THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

67.  AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

68.  TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

69.  INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

70.  THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling

71.  THE MAGUS by John Fowles

72.  THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein

73.  ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig

74.  I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

75.  THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

76.  AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O’Brien

77.  FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

78.  ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis

79.  WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams

80.  NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs

81.  THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy

82.  GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton

83.  THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein

84.  IT by Stephen King

85.  V. by Thomas Pynchon

86.  DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein

87.  CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein

88.  BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

89.  LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

90.  ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey

91.  A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

92.  THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

93.  SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey

94.  MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather

95.  MULENGRO by Charles de Lint

96.  SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy

97.  MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock

98.  ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach

99.  THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies

100.              THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

 

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