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Modern Library 100 Best Novels

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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.

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001:

James Joyce, Ulysses

002:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

003:

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

004:

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

005:

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

006:

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

007:

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

008:

Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

009:

D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

010:

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

011:

Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

012:

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

013:

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]

014:

Robert Graves, I, Claudius

015:

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

016:

Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy

017:

Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

018:

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

019:

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

020:

Richard Wright, Native Son

021:

Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

022:

John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra

023:

John Dos Passos, 1919

023:

John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel

023:

John Dos Passos, The Big Money

024:

Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

025:

E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

026:

Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

027:

Henry James, The Ambassadors

028:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

029:

James T. Farrell, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan

029:

James T. Farrell, Young Lonigan

029:

James T. Farrell, Judgment Day

030:

Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier

031:

George Orwell, Animal Farm

032:

Henry James, The Golden Bowl

033:

Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

034:

Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

035:

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

036:

Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

037:

Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

038:

E.M. Forster, Howards End

039:

James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

040:

Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

041:

William Golding, Lord of the Flies

042:

James Dickey, Deliverance

043:

Anthony Powell, A Question of Upbringing

043:

Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market

043:

Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

043:

Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's

043:

Anthony Powell, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

043:

Anthony Powell, The Kindly One's

043:

Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones

043:

Anthony Powell, The Soldier's Art

043:

Anthony Powell, The Military Philosophers

043:

Anthony Powell, Books Do Furnish a Room

043:

Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings

043:

Anthony Powell, Hearing Secret Harmonies

044:

Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

045:

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

046:

Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

047:

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

048:

D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

049:

D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

050:

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

051:

Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

052:

Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

053:

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

054:

William Faulkner, Light in August

055:

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

056:

Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

057:

Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

057:

Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

057:

Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up

057:

Ford Madox Ford, Last Post

059:

Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

060:

Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

061:

Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

062:

James Jones, From Here to Eternity

063:

John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle

064:

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

065:

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

066:

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

067:

Joseph Conrad, Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories [Heart of Darkness]

068:

Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

069:

Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

070:

Lawrence Durrell, Justine

070:

Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

070:

Lawrence Durrell, Mountolive

070:

Lawrence Durrell, Clea

071:

Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

072:

V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas

073:

Nathanael West, Day of the Locust

074:

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

075:

Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

076:

Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

077:

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

078:

Rudyard Kipling, Kim

079:

E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

080:

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

081:

Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

082:

Wallace Stegner, The Angle of Repose

083:

V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

084:

Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

085:

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

086:

E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

087:

Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale

088:

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

089:

Henry Green, Loving

090:

Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

091:

Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road

092:

William Kennedy, Ironweed

093:

John Fowles, The Magus

094:

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

095:

Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

096:

William Styron, Sophie's Choice

097:

Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

098:

James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

099:

J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man

100:

Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

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