The Modern Library (The Two Hundred Best Novels....

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In English since 1950 (Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín)
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The Grand Sophy
by Georgette Heyer
3,201 members
141 reviews
4.2
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My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier
4,724 members
166 reviews
4
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A Dance to the Music of Time
by Anthony Powell
194 members
6 reviews
½ 4.4
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,530 members
482 reviews
½ 4.4
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
6,938 members
134 reviews
3.9
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The Go-Between
by L. P. Hartley
2,696 members
49 reviews
4
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
by Amos Tutuola
585 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,431 members
461 reviews
3.8
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
90,242 members
1,561 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,897 members
192 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John le Carré
9,897 members
270 reviews
4
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12
The Group
by Mary McCarthy
2,562 members
55 reviews
½ 3.7
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13
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
3,314 members
36 reviews
3.8
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14
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
9,503 members
275 reviews
½ 3.6
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15
A Grain of Wheat
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1,128 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
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16
Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
6,848 members
139 reviews
3.9
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17
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1,336 members
40 reviews
½ 3.5
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18
Burger's Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
1,186 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
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19
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
9,403 members
107 reviews
4.2
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20
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,658 members
370 reviews
4.1
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21
Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
4,151 members
80 reviews
4
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22
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
4,318 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
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23
Family and Friends
by Anita Brookner
539 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
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24
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
6,990 members
160 reviews
½ 3.7
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25
An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
4,426 members
117 reviews
3.8
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26
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,657 members
448 reviews
3.9
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In the Skin of a Lion
by Michael Ondaatje
3,038 members
49 reviews
3.9
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28
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
4,504 members
73 reviews
3.8
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Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
4,544 members
78 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
19,344 members
219 reviews
3.9
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Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,286 members
314 reviews
4
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32
Age of Iron
by J. M. Coetzee
1,251 members
19 reviews
3.8
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The Snapper
by Roddy Doyle
1,162 members
14 reviews
3.8
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34
The Regeneration Trilogy
by Pat Barker
894 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,374 members
276 reviews
3.9
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36
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
8,547 members
159 reviews
3.9
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37
Original Sin
by P. D. James
3,221 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
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38
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
10,041 members
272 reviews
½ 4.4
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
13,142 members
275 reviews
3.9
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Last Orders
by Graham Swift
2,996 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
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41
Quarantine
by Jim Crace
1,319 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
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42
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,331 members
1,199 reviews
3.8
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Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
14,849 members
207 reviews
3.8
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Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
6,538 members
165 reviews
4
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45
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
57,514 members
818 reviews
½ 3.7
46
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,465 members
579 reviews
4.1
47
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
35,523 members
563 reviews
3.8
48
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,391 members
636 reviews
4.1
49
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,800 members
560 reviews
4
50
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,496 members
425 reviews
½ 3.6
51
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
25,660 members
362 reviews
3.8
52
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,308 members
650 reviews
4.1
53
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,609 members
511 reviews
3.9
54
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,460 members
232 reviews
4
55
Misery
by Stephen King
18,240 members
242 reviews
4
56
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,192 members
337 reviews
½ 3.7
57
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,583 members
270 reviews
4
58
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
14,361 members
286 reviews
3.8
59
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,119 members
327 reviews
4.2
60
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
12,709 members
198 reviews
4.2
61
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
12,164 members
155 reviews
4
62
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
11,421 members
126 reviews
3.8
63
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
10,596 members
284 reviews
½ 4.6
64
Master & Commander
by Patrick O'Brian
10,391 members
240 reviews
4
65
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
9,743 members
142 reviews
3.8
66
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,870 members
188 reviews
3.9
67
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
8,811 members
90 reviews
3.9
68
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
8,457 members
91 reviews
4
69
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
7,592 members
73 reviews
½ 3.5
70
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,249 members
226 reviews
3.9
71
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
7,109 members
236 reviews
3.9
72
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
6,680 members
124 reviews
½ 3.6
73
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,650 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
74
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
6,381 members
161 reviews
½ 3.7
75
A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth
6,207 members
118 reviews
4.2
76
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
6,021 members
108 reviews
4
77
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
6,012 members
99 reviews
½ 3.6
78
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,877 members
126 reviews
4.2
79
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,708 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
80
A Murder Is Announced
by Agatha Christie
5,508 members
113 reviews
3.8
81
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
4,404 members
124 reviews
3.8
82
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
4,250 members
80 reviews
3.8
83
The Tortilla Curtain
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
3,962 members
105 reviews
3.8
84
The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
3,901 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
85
A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,869 members
73 reviews
3.8
86
Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
3,664 members
64 reviews
½ 3.7
87
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver
3,657 members
42 reviews
½ 4.3
88
The Human Factor
by Graham Greene
3,622 members
50 reviews
3.9
89
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,604 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
90
A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
3,481 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
91
Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
3,458 members
94 reviews
4.2
92
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
3,364 members
30 reviews
4.2
93
The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
3,197 members
50 reviews
4
94
The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford
3,151 members
60 reviews
½ 3.6
95
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
2,995 members
68 reviews
4.1
96
The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty
2,965 members
101 reviews
½ 3.6
97
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,957 members
40 reviews
3.9
98
A Home at the End of the World
by Michael Cunningham
2,813 members
49 reviews
3.8
99
The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
2,630 members
34 reviews
½ 4.3
100
The Reivers
by William Faulkner
2,626 members
32 reviews
½ 3.6