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

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TitlesOrder
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand1
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand2
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard3
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien4
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee5
Anthem by Ayn Rand7
We the Living by Ayn Rand8
The Invaders Plan by L. Ron Hubbard9
Fear by L. Ron Hubbard10
Ulysses by James Joyce11
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller12
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald13
Dune by Frank Herbert14
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein15
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein16
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute17
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley18
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger19
Animal Farm by George Orwell20
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon21
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck22
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut23
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell24
Lord of the Flies by William Golding25
Shane by Jack Schaefer26
Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute27
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving28
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King29
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles30
Beloved by Toni Morrison31
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison32
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner33
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov34
Moonheart by Charles de Lint35
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner36
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham37
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor38
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry39
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies40
Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint41
On the Road by Jack Kerouac42
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad43
Yarrow by Charles de Lint44
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft45
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels by H. P. Lovecraft45
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels by H. P. Lovecraft45
One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane46
Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint47
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf48
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy49
Trader by Charles de Lint50
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams51
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers52
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood53
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy54
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess55
On the Beach by Nevil Shute56
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce57
Greenmantle by Charles de Lint58
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card59
The Little Country by Charles de Lint60
The Recognitions by William Gaddis61
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein62
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway63
The World According to Garp by John Irving64
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury65
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson66
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner67
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller68
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison69
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling70
The Magus by John Fowles71
The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein72
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig73
I, Claudius by Robert Graves74
The Call of the Wild by Jack London75
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien76
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury77
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis78
Watership Down by Richard Adams79
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs80
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy81
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton82
The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein83
It by Stephen King84
V. by Thomas Pynchon85
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein86
Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein87
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh88
Light in August by William Faulkner89
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey90
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway91
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles92
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey93
My Ántonia by Willa Cather94
Mulengro by Charles de Lint95
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy96
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock97
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach98
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies99
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie100