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

Description
In English since 1950 (Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín)
1
The Grand Sophy
by Georgette Heyer
3,193 members
141 reviews
4.2
Member
charl08
2
My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier
4,707 members
165 reviews
4
Member
charl08
3
A Dance to the Music of Time
by Anthony Powell
194 members
6 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
charl08
4
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,356 members
480 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
charl08
5
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
6,912 members
134 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
6
The Go-Between
by L. P. Hartley
2,690 members
49 reviews
4
Member
charl08
7
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
by Amos Tutuola
584 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
charl08
8
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,318 members
461 reviews
3.8
Member
charl08
9
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
89,888 members
1,559 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
charl08
10
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,873 members
189 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
11
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John le Carré
9,872 members
270 reviews
4
Member
charl08
12
The Group
by Mary McCarthy
2,554 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
13
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
3,304 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
charl08
14
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
9,447 members
272 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
charl08
15
A Grain of Wheat
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1,123 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
16
Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
6,823 members
138 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
17
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1,336 members
40 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
charl08
18
Burger's Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
1,180 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
charl08
19
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
9,390 members
106 reviews
4.2
Member
charl08
20
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,568 members
369 reviews
4.1
Member
charl08
21
Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
4,138 members
80 reviews
4
Member
charl08
22
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
4,300 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
23
Family and Friends
by Anita Brookner
539 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
charl08
24
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
6,958 members
160 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
25
An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
4,407 members
117 reviews
3.8
Member
charl08
26
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,510 members
447 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
27
In the Skin of a Lion
by Michael Ondaatje
3,028 members
49 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
28
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
4,485 members
73 reviews
3.8
Member
charl08
29
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
4,533 members
78 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
charl08
30
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
19,291 members
220 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
31
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,233 members
313 reviews
4
Member
charl08
32
Age of Iron
by J. M. Coetzee
1,248 members
19 reviews
3.8
Member
charl08
33
The Snapper
by Roddy Doyle
1,156 members
14 reviews
3.8
Member
charl08
34
The Regeneration Trilogy
by Pat Barker
889 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
charl08
35
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,338 members
275 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
36
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
8,535 members
159 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
37
Original Sin
by P. D. James
3,231 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
charl08
38
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
9,993 members
271 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
charl08
39
Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
13,074 members
274 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
40
Last Orders
by Graham Swift
2,982 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
charl08
41
Quarantine
by Jim Crace
1,316 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
42
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,106 members
1,197 reviews
3.8
Member
charl08
43
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
14,808 members
207 reviews
3.8
Member
charl08
44
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
6,513 members
165 reviews
4
Member
charl08
45
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
57,290 members
817 reviews
½ 3.7
46
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,298 members
579 reviews
4.1
47
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
35,326 members
562 reviews
3.8
48
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,238 members
634 reviews
4.1
49
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,685 members
560 reviews
4
50
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,650 members
424 reviews
½ 3.6
51
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
25,558 members
360 reviews
3.8
52
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,165 members
646 reviews
4.1
53
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,524 members
511 reviews
3.9
54
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,390 members
231 reviews
4
55
Misery
by Stephen King
18,262 members
243 reviews
4
56
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,107 members
337 reviews
½ 3.7
57
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,522 members
269 reviews
4
58
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
14,303 members
285 reviews
3.8
59
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,043 members
326 reviews
4.2
60
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
12,658 members
198 reviews
4.2
61
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
12,114 members
155 reviews
4
62
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
11,380 members
125 reviews
3.8
63
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
10,492 members
285 reviews
½ 4.6
64
Master & Commander
by Patrick O'Brian
10,349 members
240 reviews
4
65
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
9,711 members
142 reviews
3.8
66
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,877 members
188 reviews
3.9
67
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
8,782 members
90 reviews
3.9
68
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
8,441 members
91 reviews
4
69
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
7,557 members
73 reviews
½ 3.5
70
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,224 members
222 reviews
3.9
71
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
7,079 members
235 reviews
3.9
72
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
6,659 members
124 reviews
½ 3.6
73
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,637 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
74
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
6,368 members
161 reviews
½ 3.7
75
A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth
6,192 members
118 reviews
4.2
76
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
6,026 members
108 reviews
4
77
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
5,988 members
99 reviews
½ 3.6
78
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,879 members
126 reviews
4.2
79
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,693 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
80
A Murder Is Announced
by Agatha Christie
5,479 members
113 reviews
3.8
81
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
4,385 members
124 reviews
3.8
82
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
4,233 members
80 reviews
3.8
83
The Tortilla Curtain
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
3,955 members
105 reviews
3.8
84
The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
3,890 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
85
A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,853 members
73 reviews
3.8
86
Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
3,660 members
64 reviews
½ 3.7
87
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver
3,641 members
42 reviews
½ 4.3
88
The Human Factor
by Graham Greene
3,610 members
49 reviews
3.9
89
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,586 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
90
A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
3,477 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
91
Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
3,451 members
94 reviews
4.2
92
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
3,358 members
30 reviews
4.2
93
The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
3,190 members
50 reviews
4
94
The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford
3,148 members
60 reviews
½ 3.6
95
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
2,982 members
68 reviews
4.1
96
The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty
2,957 members
101 reviews
½ 3.6
97
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,955 members
40 reviews
3.9
98
A Home at the End of the World
by Michael Cunningham
2,809 members
49 reviews
3.8
99
The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
2,613 members
34 reviews
½ 4.3
100
The Reivers
by William Faulkner
2,610 members
32 reviews
½ 3.6