Book awards: The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 1950

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Titles	Order
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow	1950s
Anecdotes of Destiny by Tania Blixen	1950s
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor	1950s
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Other Stories by Carson McCullers	1950s
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger	1950s
A Dance to the Music of Time. 1st movement, Spring by Anthony Powell	1950s
December Bride by Sam Hanna Bell	1950s
East of Eden by John Steinbeck	1950s
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann	1950s
The Financial Expert by R. K. Narayan	1950s
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner	1950s
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West	1950s
From the Terrace by John O'Hara	1950s
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin	1950s
The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley	1950s
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer	1950s
A Heritage and its History by Ivy Compton-Burnett	1950s
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison	1950s
A Legacy: A Novel by Sybille Bedford	1950s
The Little Disturbances of Man : Stories of Women and Men at Love by Grace Paley	1950s
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov	1950s
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler	1950s
Lord of the Flies by William Golding	1950s
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis	1950s
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie	1950s
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier	1950s
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs	1950s
The Natural by Bernard Malamud	1950s
Nothing by Henry Green	1950s
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway	1950s
On the Road by Jack Kerouac	1950s
Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame	1950s
The Palm-wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola	1950s
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy	1950s
Private Life of an Indian Prince by Mulk Raj Anand	1950s
The Recognitions by William Gaddis	1950s
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe	1950s
The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh	1950s
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith	1950s
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe	1950s
Three Novels by Samuel Beckett	1950s
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins	1950s
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh	1950s
The West Pier by Patrick Hamilton	1950s
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor	1950s
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning	1960s
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath	1960s
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller	1960s
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron	1960s
Cotter's England by Christina Stead	1960s
Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien	1960s
The Godfather by Mario Puzo	1960s
The Golden Notebook by Doris May Lessing	1960s
A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo	1960s
The Group by Mary McCarthy	1960s
Happiness, and other stories by Mary Lavin	1960s
Heartland by Wilson Harris	1960s
Herzog by Saul Bellow	1960s
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul	1960s
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories by William H. Gass	1960s
The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka	1960s
Jeeves in the Offing by P. G. Wodehouse	1960s
A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence	1960s
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott	1960s
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.	1960s
The Little Girls by Elizabeth Bowen	1960s
The Magus by John Fowles	1960s
Memoirs of a Peon by Frank Sargeson	1960s
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch	1960s
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark	1960s
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; with an Introduction by the Author by John Updike	1960s
The Reivers by William Faulkner	1960s
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White	1960s
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter	1960s
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré	1960s
That's How It Was by Maureen Duffy	1960s
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee	1960s
The Unfortunates by B. S. Johnson	1960s
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys	1960s
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul	1970s
Black List, Section H by Francis Stuart	1970s
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion	1970s
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer	1970s
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan	1970s
Changing Places by David Lodge	1970s
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth	1970s
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer	1970s
Falconer by John Cheever	1970s
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies	1970s
From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant	1970s
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon	1970s
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	1970s
The Human Factor by Graham Greene	1970s
The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble	1970s
Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge	1970s
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice	1970s
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood by Alistair MacLeod	1970s
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian	1970s
The Murderer by Roy A.K. Heath	1970s
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty	1970s
Plumb by Maurice Gee	1970s
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow	1970s
Saville by David Storey	1970s
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell	1970s
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick	1970s
St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler	1970s
Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson	1970s
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan	1970s
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro	1980s
Beloved by Toni Morrison	1980s
Black Robe: A Novel by Brian Moore	1980s
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy	1980s
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe	1980s
The Book of Evidence by John Banville	1980s
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White	1980s
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler	1980s
The Color Purple by Alice Walker	1980s
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole	1980s
Cracking India: A Novel by Bapsi Sidhwa	1980s
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine	1980s
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen	1980s
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess	1980s
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons	1980s
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard	1980s
Family and Friends by Anita Brookner	1980s
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone	1980s
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes	1980s
Forty-seventeen by Frank Moorhouse	1980s
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson	1980s
In Custody by Anita Desai	1980s
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje	1980s
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan	1980s
Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty	1980s
Lanark by Alasdair Gray	1980s
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry	1980s
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips	1980s
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos	1980s
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie	1980s
Misery by Stephen King	1980s
Money by Martin Amis	1980s
Nation of Fools: Scenes from Indian Life by Balraj Khanna	1980s
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin	1980s
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson	1980s
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey	1980s
The Other Garden by Francis Wyndham	1980s
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter	1980s
Puffball by Fay Weldon	1980s
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris	1980s
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban	1980s
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally	1980s
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell	1980s
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford	1980s
The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley	1980s
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor	1980s
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard	1980s
Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver	1980s
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee	1990s
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood	1990s
American pastoral by Philip Roth	1990s
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis	1990s
Amongst Women by John McGahern	1990s
Asylum by Patrick McGrath	1990s
Birdsong by Sebastian C. Faulks	1990s
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald	1990s
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe	1990s
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières	1990s
Cloudstreet : A Novel by Tim Winton	1990s
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier	1990s
Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe	1990s
Downriver by Iain Sinclair	1990s
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry	1990s
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst	1990s
Friend of My Youth: Stories by Alice Munro	1990s
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard	1990s
The Great World by David Malouf	1990s
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham	1990s
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman	1990s
The Lady from Guatemala by V. S. Pritchett	1990s
Last Orders by Graham Swift	1990s
Mating: A Novel by Norman Rush	1990s
My Idea of Fun by Will Self	1990s
The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff	1990s
Original Sin by P. D. James	1990s
Possession by A. S. Byatt	1990s
Quarantine by Jim Crace	1990s
Reading Turgenev by William Trevor	1990s
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo	1990s
The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker	1990s
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta	1990s
The Secret History by Donna Tartt	1990s
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx	1990s
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle	1990s
A strange and sublime address by Amit Chaudhuri	1990s
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth	1990s
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley	1990s
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle	1990s
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh	1990s
Underworld by Don DeLillo	1990s
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides	1990s
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe	1990s
Wise Children by Angela Carter	1990s

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Based on the book by Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín, published by Picador (2000). See the list of books on the Clare County Library's website. This list is not associated with the publisher Modern Library.

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