Book awards: The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Reader's List

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Works (100)

Titles	Order
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand	1
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand	2
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard	3
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien	4
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee	5
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell	6
Anthem by Ayn Rand	7
We the Living by Ayn Rand	8
The Invaders Plan by L. Ron Hubbard	9
Fear by L. Ron Hubbard	10
Ulysses by James Joyce	11
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller	12
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	13
Dune by Frank Herbert	14
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein	15
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein	16
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute	17
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley	18
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger	19
Animal Farm by George Orwell	20
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon	21
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck	22
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut	23
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell	24
Lord of the Flies by William Golding	25
Shane by Jack Schaefer	26
Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute	27
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving	28
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King	29
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles	30
Beloved by Toni Morrison	31
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison	32
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner	33
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov	34
Moonheart by Charles de Lint	35
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner	36
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham	37
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor	38
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry	39
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies	40
Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint	41
On the Road by Jack Kerouac	42
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad	43
Yarrow: an autumn tale by Charles de Lint	44
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft	45
One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane	46
Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint	47
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf	48
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy	49
Trader by Charles de Lint	50
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams	51
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers	52
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood	53
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy	54
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess	55
On the Beach by Nevil Shute	56
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce	57
Greenmantle by Charles de Lint	58
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card	59
The Little Country by Charles de Lint	60
The Recognitions by William Gaddis	61
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein	62
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway	63
The World According to Garp by John Irving	64
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury	65
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson	66
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner	67
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller	68
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison	69
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling	70
The Magus by John Fowles	71
The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein	72
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig	73
I, Claudius by Robert Graves	74
The Call of the Wild by Jack London	75
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien	76
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury	77
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis	78
Watership Down by Richard Adams	79
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs	80
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy	81
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton	82
The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein	83
It by Stephen King	84
V. by Thomas Pynchon	85
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein	86
Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein	87
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh	88
Light in August by William Faulkner	89
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey	90
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway	91
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles	92
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey	93
My Ántonia by Willa Cather	94
Mulengro by Charles de Lint	95
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy	96
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock	97
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach	98
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies	99
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie	100