Modern Library's list of the Top 100 novels of all time:
| Per the Board | per the Readers | ||||
| 1 | ULYSSES | James Joyce | ATLAS SHRUGGED | Ayn Rand | |
| 2 | THE GREAT GATSBY | F. Scott Fitzgerald | THE FOUNTAINHEAD | Ayn Rand | |
| 3 | A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN | James Joyce | |||
| 4 | LOLITA | Vladimir Nabokov | THE LORD OF THE RINGS | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5 | BRAVE NEW WORLD | Aldous Huxley | TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | Harper Lee | |
| 6 | THE SOUND AND THE FURY | William Faulkner | 1984 | George Orwell | |
| 7 | CATCH-22 | Joseph Heller | ANTHEM | Ayn Rand | |
| 8 | DARKNESS AT NOON | Arthur Koestler | WE THE LIVING | Ayn Rand | |
| 9 | SONS AND LOVERS | D.H. Lawrence | |||
| 10 | THE GRAPES OF WRATH | John Steinbeck | |||
| 11 | UNDER THE VOLCANO | Malcolm Lowry | ULYSSES | James Joyce | |
| 12 | THE WAY OF ALL FLESH | Samuel Butler | CATCH-22 | Joseph Heller | |
| 13 | 1984 | George Orwell | THE GREAT GATSBY | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 14 | I, CLAUDIUS | Robert Graves | DUNE | Frank Herbert | |
| 15 | TO THE LIGHTHOUSE | Virginia Woolf | THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS | Robert Heinlein | |
| 16 | AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | Theodore Dreiser | STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND | Robert Heinlein | |
| 17 | THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER | Carson McCullers | A TOWN LIKE ALICE | Nevil Shute | |
| 18 | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE | Kurt Vonnegut | BRAVE NEW WORLD | Aldous Huxley | |
| 19 | INVISIBLE MAN | Ralph Ellison | THE CATCHER IN THE RYE | J.D. Salinger | |
| 20 | NATIVE SON | Richard Wright | ANIMAL FARM | George Orwell | |
| 21 | HENDERSON THE RAIN KING | Saul Bellow | GRAVITY’S RAINBOW | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 22 | APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA | John O’Hara | THE GRAPES OF WRATH | John Steinbeck | |
| 23 | U.S.A.(trilogy) | John Dos Passos | SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 24 | WINESBURG, OHIO | Sherwood Anderson | GONE WITH THE WIND | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 25 | A PASSAGE TO INDIA | E.M. Forster | LORD OF THE FLIES | William Golding | |
| 26 | THE WINGS OF THE DOVE | Henry James | SHANE | Jack Schaefer | |
| 27 | THE AMBASSADORS | Henry James | TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM | Nevil Shute | |
| 28 | TENDER IS THE NIGHT | F. Scott Fitzgerald | A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY | John Irving | |
| 29 | THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY | James T. Farrell | THE STAND | Stephen King | |
| 30 | THE GOOD SOLDIER | Ford Madox Ford | THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN | John Fowles | |
| 31 | ANIMAL FARM | George Orwell | BELOVED | Toni Morrison | |
| 32 | THE GOLDEN BOWL | Henry James | THE WORM OUROBOROS | E.R. Eddison | |
| 33 | SISTER CARRIE | Theodore Dreiser | THE SOUND AND THE FURY | William Faulkner | |
| 34 | A HANDFUL OF DUST | Evelyn Waugh | LOLITA | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 35 | AS I LAY DYING | William Faulkner | MOONHEART | Charles de Lint | |
| 36 | ALL THE KING’S MEN | Robert Penn Warren | ABSALOM, ABSALOM! | William Faulkner | |
| 37 | THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY | Thornton Wilder | OF HUMAN BONDAGE | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 38 | HOWARDS END | E.M. Forster | WISE BLOOD | Flannery O’Connor | |
| 39 | GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN | James Baldwin | UNDER THE VOLCANO | Malcolm Lowry | |
| 40 | THE HEART OF THE MATTER | Graham Greene | FIFTH BUSINESS | Robertson Davies | |
| 41 | LORD OF THE FLIES | William Golding | SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING | Charles de Lint | |
| 42 | DELIVERANCE | James Dickey | ON THE ROAD | Jack Kerouac | |
| 43 | A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) | Anthony Powell | HEART OF DARKNESS | Joseph Conrad | |
| 44 | POINT COUNTER POINT | Aldous Huxley | YARROW | Charles de Lint | |
| 45 | THE SUN ALSO RISES | Ernest Hemingway | AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 46 | THE SECRET AGENT | Joseph Conrad | ONE LONELY NIGHT | Mickey Spillane | |
| 47 | NOSTROMO | Joseph Conrad | MEMORY AND DREAM | Charles de Lint | |
| 48 | THE RAINBOW | D.H. Lawrence | TO THE LIGHTHOUSE | Virginia Woolf | |
| 49 | WOMEN IN LOVE | D.H. Lawrence | THE MOVIEGOER | Walker Percy | |
| 50 | TROPIC OF CANCER | Henry Miller | TRADER | Charles de Lint | |
| 51 | THE NAKED AND THE DEAD | Norman Mailer | THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY | Douglas Adams | |
| 52 | PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT | Philip Roth | THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER | Carson McCullers | |
| 53 | PALE FIRE | Vladimir Nabokov | THE HANDMAID’S TALE | Margaret Atwood | |
| 54 | LIGHT IN AUGUST | William Faulkner | BLOOD MERIDIAN | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 55 | ON THE ROAD | Jack Kerouac | A CLOCKWORK ORANGE | Anthony Burgess | |
| 56 | THE MALTESE FALCON | Dashiell Hammett | ON THE BEACH | Nevil Shute | |
| 57 | PARADE’S END | Ford Madox Ford | A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN | James Joyce | |
| 58 | THE AGE OF INNOCENCE | Edith Wharton | GREENMANTLE | Charles de Lint | |
| 59 | ZULEIKA DOBSON | Max Beerbohm | ENDER’S GAME | Orson Scott Card | |
| 60 | THE MOVIEGOER | Walker Percy | THE LITTLE COUNTRY | Charles de Lint | |
| 61 | DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP | Willa Cather | THE RECOGNITIONS | William Gaddis | |
| 62 | FROM HERE TO ETERNITY | James Jones | STARSHIP TROOPERS | Robert Heinlein | |
| 63 | THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES | John Cheever | THE SUN ALSO RISES | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 64 | THE CATCHER IN THE RYE | J.D. Salinger | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP | John Irving | |
| 65 | A CLOCKWORK ORANGE | Anthony Burgess | SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES | Ray Bradbury | |
| 66 | OF HUMAN BONDAGE | W. Somerset Maugham | THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE | Shirley Jackson | |
| 67 | HEART OF DARKNESS | Joseph Conrad | AS I LAY DYING | William Faulkner | |
| 68 | MAIN STREET | Sinclair Lewis | TROPIC OF CANCER | Henry Miller | |
| 69 | THE HOUSE OF MIRTH | Edith Wharton | INVISIBLE MAN | Ralph Ellison | |
| 70 | THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET | Lawrence Durell | THE WOOD WIFE | Terri Windling | |
| 71 | A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA | Richard Hughes | THE MAGUS | John Fowles | |
| 72 | A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS | V.S. Naipaul | THE DOOR INTO SUMMER | Robert Heinlein | |
| 73 | THE DAY OF THE LOCUST | Nathanael West | ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE | Robert Pirsig | |
| 74 | A FAREWELL TO ARMS | Ernest Hemingway | I, CLAUDIUS | Robert Graves | |
| 75 | SCOOP | Evelyn Waugh | THE CALL OF THE WILD | Jack London | |
| 76 | THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE | Muriel Spark | AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS | Flann O’Brien | |
| 77 | FINNEGANS WAKE | James Joyce | FARENHEIT 451 | Ray Bradbury | |
| 78 | KIM | Rudyard Kipling | ARROWSMITH | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 79 | A ROOM WITH A VIEW | E.M. Forster | WATERSHIP DOWN | Richard Adams | |
| 80 | BRIDESHEAD REVISITED | Evelyn Waugh | NAKED LUNCH | William S. Burroughs | |
| 81 | THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH | Saul Bellow | THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER | Tom Clancy | |
| 82 | ANGLE OF REPOSE | Wallace Stegner | |||
| 83 | A BEND IN THE RIVER | V.S. Naipaul | THE PUPPET MASTERS | Robert Heinlein | |
| 84 | THE DEATH OF THE HEART | Elizabeth Bowen | IT | Stephen King | |
| 85 | LORD JIM | Joseph Conrad | V. | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 86 | RAGTIME | E.L. Doctorow | DOUBLE STAR | Robert Heinlein | |
| 87 | THE OLD WIVES’ TALE | Arnold Bennett | CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY | Robert Heinlein | |
| 88 | THE CALL OF THE WILD | Jack London | BRIDESHEAD REVISITED | Evelyn Waugh | |
| 89 | LOVING | Henry Green | LIGHT IN AUGUST | William Faulkner | |
| 90 | MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN | Salman Rushdie | ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST | Ken Kesey | |
| 91 | TOBACCO ROAD | Erskine Caldwell | A FAREWELL TO ARMS | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 92 | IRONWEED | William Kennedy | THE SHELTERING SKY | Paul Bowles | |
| 93 | THE MAGUS | John Fowles | SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION | Ken Kesey | |
| 94 | WIDE SARGASSO SEA | Jean Rhys | MY ANTONIA | Willa Cather | |
| 95 | UNDER THE NET | Iris Murdoch | MULENGRO | Charles de Lint | |
| 96 | SOPHIE’S CHOICE | William Styron | SUTTREE | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 97 | THE SHELTERING SKY | Paul Bowles | MYTHAGO WOOD | Robert Holdstock | |
| 98 | THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE | James M. Cain | ILLUSIONS | Richard Bach | |
| 99 | THE GINGER MAN | J.P. Donleavy | THE CUNNING MAN | Robertson Davies | |
| 100 | THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS | Booth Tarkington | THE SATANIC VERSES | Salman Rushdie |
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