Modern
Library's 100 Best Novels of 20th Century
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Board's List (I've read 17 as of July 21, 2008) |
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Reader's List (I've read 33 as of July 16, 2008) |
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1 |
Ulysses
by James Joyce |
1 |
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand |
2 |
The
Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
2 |
The
Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand |
3 |
A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce |
3 |
Battlefield
Earth
by L. Ron Hubbard |
4 |
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov |
4 |
The
Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien |
5 |
Brave
New World
by Aldous Huxley |
5 |
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee |
6 |
The
Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner |
6 |
1984
by George Orwell |
7 |
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller |
7 |
Anthem
by Ayn Rand |
8 |
Darkness
at Noon: A Novel
by Arthur Koestler |
8 |
We
the Living
by Ayn Rand |
9 |
Sons
and Lovers
by D.H. Lawrence |
9 |
The
Books of the Mission Earth Dekalogy, Complete 10-volume Set (Vol. 1: The
Invaders Plan; Vol. 2: Black Genesis; Vol. 3: The Enemy Within; Vol. 4:
An Alien Affair; Vol. 5: Fortune of Fear; Vol. 6: Death Quest; Vol. 7:
Voyage of Vengeance; Vol. 8: Disaster; Vol. 9: Villainy Victorious; Vol.
10: The Doomed Planet)
by L. Ron Hubbard |
10 |
The
Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck |
10 |
Fear
by L. Ron Hubbard |
11 |
Under
the Volcano: A Novel
by Malcolm Lowry |
11 |
Ulysses
by James Joyce |
12 |
The
Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler |
12 |
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller |
13 |
1984
by George Orwell |
13 |
The
Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
14 |
I,
Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C.,
Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
by Robert Graves |
14 |
Dune
(Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
by Frank Herbert |
15 |
To
the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf |
15 |
The
Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert Heinlein |
16 |
An
American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser |
16 |
Stranger
in a Strange Land
by Robert Heinlein |
17 |
The
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers |
17 |
A
Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute |
18 |
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut |
18 |
Brave
New World
by Aldous Huxley |
19 |
Invisible
Man
by Ralph Ellison |
19 |
The
Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger |
20 |
Native
Son
by Richard Wright |
20 |
Animal
Farm
by George Orwell |
21 |
Henderson
the Rain King
by Saul Bellow |
21 |
Gravity's
Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon |
22 |
Appointment
in Samarra: A Novel
by John O'Hara |
22 |
The
Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck |
23 |
U.S.A.:
The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
by John Dos Passos |
23 |
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut |
24 |
Winesburg
Ohio : a group of tales of Ohio small town life
by Sherwood Anderson |
24 |
Gone
with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell |
25 |
A
Passage to India
by E.M. Forster |
25 |
Lord
of the Flies
by William Golding |
26 |
The
Wings of the Dove
by Henry James |
26 |
Shane
by Jack Schaefer |
27 |
The
Ambassadors
by Henry James |
27 |
Trustee
from the Toolroom
by Nevil Shute |
28 |
Tender
Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
28 |
A
Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving |
29 |
Studs
Lonigan; A trilogy Containing: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs
Lonigan, Judgement Day
by James T. Farrell |
29 |
The
Stand:
by Stephen King |
30 |
The
Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
by Ford Madox Ford |
30 |
The
French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles |
31 |
Animal
Farm
by George Orwell |
31 |
Beloved
by Toni Morrison |
32 |
The
Golden Bowl
by Henry James |
32 |
The
Worm Ouroboros
by E.R. Eddison |
33 |
Sister
Carrie: a Novel
by Theodore Dreiser |
33 |
The
Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner |
34 |
A
Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh |
34 |
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov |
35 |
As
I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner |
35 |
Moonheart
by Charles de Lint |
36 |
All
the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren |
36 |
Absalom,
Absalom!
by William Faulkner |
37 |
The
Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
by Thornton Wilder |
37 |
Of
Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham |
38 |
Howards
End
by E.M. Forster |
38 |
Wise
Blood: A Novel
by Flannery O'Connor |
39 |
Go
Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin |
39 |
Under
the Volcano: A Novel
by Malcolm Lowry |
40 |
The
Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene |
40 |
Fifth
Business
by Robertson Davies |
41 |
Lord
of the Flies
by William Golding |
41 |
Someplace
to Be Flying (Newford)
by Charles de Lint |
42 |
Deliverance
by James Dickey |
42 |
On
the Road
by Jack Kerouac |
43 |
A
Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (Dance to the Music of Time)
(series) by Anthony Powell |
43 |
Heart
of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad |
44 |
Point
Counter Point
by Aldous Huxley |
44 |
Yarrow
by Charles de Lint |
45 |
The
Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway |
45 |
At
the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Terror
by H.P. Lovecraft |
46 |
The
Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad |
46 |
One
Lonely Night (Mike Hammer Series)
by Mickey Spillane |
47 |
Nostromo
(Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Joseph Conrad |
47 |
Memory
and Dream (Newford)
by Charles de Lint |
48 |
The
Rainbow
by D.H. Lawrence |
48 |
To
the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf |
49 |
Women
in Love
by D.H. Lawrence |
49 |
The
Moviegoer
by Walker Percy |
50 |
Tropic
of Cancer
by Henry Miller |
50 |
Trader
(Newford)
by Charles de Lint |
51 |
The
Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer |
51 |
The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams |
52 |
Portnoy's
Complaint
by Philip Roth |
52 |
The
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers |
53 |
Pale
Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov |
53 |
The
Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood |
54 |
Light
in August
by William Faulkner |
54 |
Blood
Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy |
55 |
On
the Road
by Jack Kerouac |
55 |
A
Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess |
56 |
The
Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett |
56 |
On
the Beach
by Nevil Shute |
57 |
Parade's
End
by Ford Madox Ford |
57 |
A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce |
58 |
The
Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton |
58 |
Greenmantle
by Charles de Lint |
59 |
Zuleika
Dobson
by Max Beerbohm |
59 |
Ender's
Game (Ender, Book 1)
by Orson Scott Card |
60 |
The
Moviegoer
by Walker Percy |
60 |
The
Little Country
by Charles de Lint |
61 |
Death
Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather |
61 |
The
Recognitions by William Gaddis |
62 |
From
Here to Eternity
by James Jones |
62 |
Starship
Troopers
by Robert Heinlein |
63 |
The
Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever |
63 |
The
Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway |
64 |
The
Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger |
64 |
The
World According to Garp
by John Irving |
65 |
A
Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess |
65 |
Something
Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury |
66 |
Of
Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham |
66 |
The
Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson |
67 |
Heart
of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad |
67 |
As
I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner |
68 |
Main
Street
by Sinclair Lewis |
68 |
Tropic
of Cancer
by Henry Miller |
69 |
The
House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton |
69 |
Invisible
Man
by Ralph Ellison |
70 |
The
Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet)
by Lawrence Durell |
70 |
The
Wood Wife
by Terri Windling |
71 |
A
High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
by Richard Hughes |
71 |
The
Magus
by John Fowles |
72 |
A
House for Mr.Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul |
72 |
The
Door into Summer
by Robert Heinlein |
73 |
The
Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West |
73 |
Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert Pirsig |
74 |
A
Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway |
74 |
I,
Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C.,
Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 by
Robert Graves |
75 |
Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh |
75 |
The
Call of the Wild
by Jack London |
76 |
The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark |
76 |
At
Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien |
77 |
Finnegans
Wake
by James Joyce |
77 |
Farenheit
451
by Ray Bradbury |
78 |
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling |
78 |
Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis |
79 |
A
Room with a View
by E.M. Forster |
79 |
Watership
Down: A Novel
by Richard Adams |
80 |
Brideshead
Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh |
80 |
Naked
Lunch
by William S. Burroughs |
81 |
The
Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow |
81 |
The
Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Novels)
by Tom Clancy |
82 |
Angle
of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Wallace Stegner |
82 |
Guilty
Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1)by
Laurell K. Hamilton |
83 |
A
Bend in the River
by V.S. Naipaul |
83 |
Puppet
Masters
by Robert Heinlein |
84 |
The
Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen |
84 |
It
by Stephen King |
85 |
Lord
Jim
by Joseph Conrad |
85 |
V.
by Thomas Pynchon |
86 |
Ragtime
by E.L. Doctorow |
86 |
Double
Star
by Robert Heinlein |
87 |
The
Old Wives' Tale
by Arnold Bennett |
87 |
Citizen
of the Galaxy
by Robert Heinlein |
88 |
The
Call of the Wild
by Jack London |
88 |
Brideshead
Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh |
89 |
Loving
by Henry Green |
89 |
Light
in August
by William Faulkner |
90 |
Midnight's
Children
by Salman Rushdie |
90 |
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey |
91 |
Tobacco
Road
by Erskine Caldwell |
91 |
A
Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway |
92 |
Ironweed
by William Kennedy |
92 |
The
Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles |
93 |
The
Magus
by John Fowles |
93 |
Sometimes
a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey |
94 |
Wide
Sargasso Sea: A Novel
by Jean Rhys |
94 |
My
Antonia
by Willa Cather |
95 |
Under
the Net
by Iris Murdoch |
95 |
Mulengro
by Charles de Lint |
96 |
Sophie's
Choice
by William Styron |
96 |
Suttree
by Cormac McCarthy |
97 |
The
Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles |
97 |
Mythago
Wood
by Robert Holdstock |
98 |
The
Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain |
98 |
Illusions:
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach |
99 |
The
Ginger Man
by J.P. Donleavy |
99 |
The
Cunning Man
by Robertson Davies |
100 |
The
Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington |
100 |
The
Satanic Verses: A Novel
by Salman Rushdie |
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numbers in purple = Books I have read; Orange
= partially read the book but have not completed it |