The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

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


Titles    Order

Ulysses by James Joyce    1
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald    2
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce    3
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov    4
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley    5
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner    6
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller    7
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler    8
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence    9
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck    10
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry    11
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler    12
1984 by George Orwell    13
I, Claudius by Robert Graves    14
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf    15
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser    16
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers    17
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut    18
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison    19
Native Son by Richard Wright    20
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow    21
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara    22
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos    23
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson    24
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster    25
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James    26
The Ambassadors by Henry James    27
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald    28
Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell    29
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford    30
Animal Farm by George Orwell    31
The Golden Bowl by Henry James    32
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser    33
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh    34
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner    35
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren    36
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Niven Wilder    37
Howards End by E. M. Forster    38
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin    39
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene    40
Lord of the Flies by William Golding    41
Deliverance by James Dickey    42
A Dance to the Music of Time. 4th movement, Winter by Anthony Powell    43
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley    44
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway    45
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad    46
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad    47
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence    48
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence    49
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller    50
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer    51
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth    52
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov    53
Light in August by William Faulkner    54
On the Road by Jack Kerouac    55
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett    56
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford    57
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton    58
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm    59
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy    60
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather    61
From Here to Eternity by James Jones    62
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever    63
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger    64
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess    65
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham    66
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad    67
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis    68
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton    69
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell    70
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes    71
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul    72
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West    73
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway    74
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh    75
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark    76
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce    77
Kim by Rudyard Kipling    78
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster    79
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh    80
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow    81
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner    82
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul    83
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen    84
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad    85
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow    86
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett    87
The Call of the Wild by Jack London    88
Loving by Henry Green    89
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie    90
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell    91
Ironweed by William J. Kennedy    92
The Magus by John Fowles    93
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys    94
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch    95
Sophie's Choice by William Styron    96
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles    97
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain    98
The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy    99
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington    100