Modern Library Top 100

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		BATTLEFIELD EARTH	L. Ron Hubbard
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		MISSION EARTH	L. Ron Hubbard
10	THE GRAPES OF WRATH	John Steinbeck		FEAR	L. Ron Hubbard
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		GUILTY PLEASURES	Laurell K. Hamilton
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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