TML 200 Best Books 1950-1999

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Books and Series with entries in A Brief Guide to the The Modern Library by Colm Tóibín and Carmen Callil
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
89,818 members
1,560 reviews
½ 4.4
8 Members
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,651 members
559 reviews
4
8 Members
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3
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,051 members
1,197 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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4
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,479 members
447 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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5
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
9,443 members
272 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,636 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
7 Members
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7
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,138 members
644 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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8
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,531 members
508 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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9
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,299 members
460 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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10
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,543 members
369 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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11
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
19,269 members
220 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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12
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,222 members
313 reviews
4
6 Members
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13
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John le Carré
9,858 members
270 reviews
4
6 Members
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14
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
6,897 members
134 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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15
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
35,292 members
561 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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16
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
25,535 members
360 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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17
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,328 members
275 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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18
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
9,986 members
271 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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19
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
7,076 members
235 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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20
Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
6,817 members
138 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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21
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,870 members
126 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,870 members
189 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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A Murder Is Announced
by Agatha Christie
5,472 members
112 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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24
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
57,227 members
816 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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25
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,290 members
578 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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26
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,199 members
633 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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27
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,311 members
480 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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28
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,368 members
231 reviews
4
4 Members
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29
Misery
by Stephen King
18,243 members
243 reviews
4
4 Members
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30
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
8,531 members
159 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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31
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,214 members
222 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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32
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
6,954 members
160 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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33
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
6,394 members
161 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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34
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
6,014 members
108 reviews
4
4 Members
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35
My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier
4,702 members
165 reviews
4
4 Members
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36
Ship of Fools
by Katherine Anne Porter
1,257 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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37
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,090 members
336 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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38
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,506 members
269 reviews
4
3 Members
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39
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
14,291 members
285 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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40
Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
13,062 members
274 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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41
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
10,465 members
285 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
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42
Master & Commander
by Patrick O'Brian
10,344 members
240 reviews
4
3 Members
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43
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
9,702 members
142 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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44
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
9,385 members
106 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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45
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
6,524 members
164 reviews
4
3 Members
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46
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
5,981 members
99 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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47
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
4,531 members
78 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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48
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
4,480 members
73 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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49
An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
4,404 members
117 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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50
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
4,297 members
80 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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51
A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,850 members
73 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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52
The Human Factor
by Graham Greene
3,609 members
49 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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53
Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
3,447 members
94 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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54
Original Sin
by P. D. James
3,225 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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55
The Grand Sophy
by Georgette Heyer
3,202 members
140 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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56
The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford
3,148 members
60 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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57
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,952 members
40 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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58
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
by Carson McCullers
2,773 members
63 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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59
The Go-Between
by L. P. Hartley
2,685 members
49 reviews
4
3 Members
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60
The Group
by Mary McCarthy
2,554 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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61
What a Carve Up!
by Jonathan Coe
2,498 members
59 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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62
Jeeves in the Offing
by P. G. Wodehouse
2,246 members
42 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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63
The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
2,230 members
41 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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64
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
by Oscar Hijuelos
2,123 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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65
The Magus {original}
by John Fowles
1,644 members
33 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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66
The Jewel in the Crown
by Paul Scott
1,634 members
34 reviews
4
3 Members
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67
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1,335 members
40 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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68
A Dark-Adapted Eye
by Barbara Vine
1,331 members
46 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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69
The Balkan Trilogy
by Olivia Manning
1,271 members
33 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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70
A Book of Common Prayer
by Joan Didion
1,200 members
16 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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71
The Snapper
by Roddy Doyle
1,155 members
14 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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72
Train to Pakistan
by Khushwant Singh
1,141 members
31 reviews
3.9
3 Members
PaulCranswick, ahef1963, quondame
73
Amongst Women
by John McGahern
1,124 members
29 reviews
3.9
3 Members
elkiedee, PaulCranswick, quondame
74
The Regeneration Trilogy
by Pat Barker
888 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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75
A Jest of God
by Margaret Laurence
805 members
20 reviews
4
3 Members
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76
The Lonely Girl
by Edna O'Brien
579 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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77
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,024 members
326 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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78
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
12,646 members
198 reviews
4.2
2 Members
ursula, quondame
79
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
11,372 members
125 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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80
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
8,774 members
90 reviews
3.9
2 Members
PaulCranswick, quondame
81
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
8,438 members
90 reviews
4
2 Members
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82
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,689 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
PaulCranswick, quondame
83
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
4,378 members
124 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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84
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
4,231 members
80 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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85
Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
4,145 members
80 reviews
4
2 Members
PaulCranswick, quondame
86
The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
3,901 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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87
Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
3,661 members
64 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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88
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver
3,638 members
42 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
ursula, quondame
89
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,584 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
PaulCranswick, quondame
90
A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
3,475 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ursula, quondame
91
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
3,302 members
35 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ursula, quondame
92
The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
3,190 members
50 reviews
4
2 Members
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93
Last Orders
by Graham Swift
2,982 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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94
Get Shorty
by Elmore Leonard
2,578 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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95
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J. G. Farrell
2,303 members
74 reviews
4
2 Members
PaulCranswick, quondame
96
The Blue Flower
by Penelope Fitzgerald
2,157 members
62 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
elkiedee, quondame
97
Wise Children
by Angela Carter
2,084 members
46 reviews
4
2 Members
PaulCranswick, quondame
98
Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
1,938 members
39 reviews
4.2
2 Members
PaulCranswick, quondame
99
A Boy's Own Story
by Edmund White
1,908 members
27 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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100
On the Black Hill
by Bruce Chatwin
1,791 members
46 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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