Book awards: The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

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