Modern Library 100 Best Novels

A much-publicized "100 Best" list, selected by the Modern Library's Board of Editors (which is comprised of several distinguished authors), and ostensibly released to "get people talking about great books." It also might help sell a few Modern Library editions, but that's probably a coincidence. As with many such lists, the inclusion of trilogies and series puts the actual number of titles well over 100.

1966
The Magus
1983-01-10
Ironweed
1945
Loving
1975
Ragtime
1900
Lord Jim
1901
Kim
1938
Scoop
1929-09-27
A Farewell to Arms
1957
Justine
1958
Balthazar
1958
Mountolive
1960
Clea
1905-10-14
The House of Mirth
1920-10
Main Street
1961-05-15
The Moviegoer
1928
Last Post
1957-09-05
On the Road
1932-10-06
Light in August
1962
Pale Fire
1969-02-21
Portnoy's Complaint
1904
Nostromo
1926-10-22
The Sun Also Rises
1970-03-23
Deliverance
1946-08-22
All the King's Men
1930-10-06
As I Lay Dying
1900-11-08
Sister Carrie
1934-04-12
Tender Is the Night
1924-06-04
A Passage to India
1932
1919
1940
Native Son
1969-03-31
Slaughterhouse-Five
1939-04-14
The Grapes of Wrath
1961-10-10
Catch-22
1955
Lolita
1925-04-10
The Great Gatsby
1922
Ulysses