Book AwardsThe Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List

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Works (100)

TitlesOrder
Ulysses by James Joyce1
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald002
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce003
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov004
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley5
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner006
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller7
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler008
Sons And Lovers by D. H. Lawrence009
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck010
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry011
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler012
1984 by George Orwell013
I, Claudius by Robert Graves014
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf015
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser016
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers017
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut018
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison019
Native Son by Richard Wright020
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow021
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara22
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos23
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson24
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster025
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James26
The Ambassadors by Henry James27
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald028
Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell29
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford30
Animal Farm by George Orwell031
The Golden Bowl by Henry James32
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser33
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh34
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner035
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren36
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder37
Howards End by E. M. Forster038
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin39
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene40
Lord of the Flies by William Golding041
Deliverance by James Dickey42
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell43
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley44
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway045
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad46
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad47
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence48
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence049
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller050
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer51
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth052
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov053
Light in August by William Faulkner054
On the Road by Jack Kerouac055
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett056
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford57
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton058
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm59
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy60
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather61
From Here to Eternity by James Jones62
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever63
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger64
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess065
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham066
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad067
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis68
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton069
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell70
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes71
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul72
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West73
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway074
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh075
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark76
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce77
Kim by Rudyard Kipling078
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster079
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh080
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow81
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner82
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul83
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen84
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad085
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow86
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett87
The Call of the Wild by Jack London088
Loving by Henry Green89
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie090
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell91
Ironweed by William J. Kennedy92
The Magus by John Fowles93
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys094
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch95
Sophie's Choice by William Styron96
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles97
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain98
The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy99
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington100