Modern Library's 100 Greatest English-Language Novels of the 20th Century

Submitted by dashforcover on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 03:02
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  1. 1984 -- George Orwell
  2. Adventures Of Augie March, The -- Saul Bellow
  3. Age Of Innocence, The -- Edith Wharton
  4. Alexandria Quartet, The -- Lawrence Durell
  5. All The King's Men -- Robert Penn Warren
  6. Ambassadors, The -- Henry James
  7. American Tragedy, An -- Theodore Dreiser
  8. Angle Of Repose -- Wallace Stegner
  9. Animal Farm -- George Orwell
  10. Appointment In Samarra -- John O'hara
  11. As I Lay Dying -- William Faulkner
  12. Bend In The River, A -- V.S. Naipaul
  13. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
  14. Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh
  15. Bridge Of San Luis Rey, The -- Thornton Wilder
  16. Call Of The Wild, The -- Jack London
  17. Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller
  18. Catcher In The Rye, The -- J.D. Salinger
  19. Clockwork Orange, A -- Anthony Burgess
  20. Dance To The Music Of Time, A (Series) -- Anthony Powell
  21. Darkness At Noon -- Arthur Koestler
  22. Day Of The Locust, The -- Nathanael West
  23. Death Comes For The Archbishop -- Willa Cather
  24. Death Of The Heart, The -- Elizabeth Bowen
  25. Deliverance -- James Dickey
  26. Farewell To Arms, A -- Ernest Hemingway
  27. Finnegans Wake -- James Joyce
  28. From Here To Eternity -- James Jones
  29. Ginger Man, The -- J.P. Donleavy
  30. Go Tell It On The Mountain -- James Baldwin
  31. Golden Bowl, The -- Henry James
  32. Good Soldier, The -- Ford Madox Ford
  33. Grapes Of Wrath, The -- John Steinbeck
  34. Great Gatsby, The -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  35. Handful Of Dust, A -- Evelyn Waugh
  36. Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, The -- Carson Mccullers
  37. Heart Of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad
  38. The Heart Of The Matter, The -- Graham Greene
  39. Henderson The Rain King -- Saul Bellow
  40. High Wind In Jamaica, A -- Richard Hughes
  41. House For Mr Biswas, A -- V.S. Naipaul
  42. House Of Mirth, The -- Edith Wharton
  43. Howards End -- E.M. Forster
  44. I, Claudius -- Robert Graves
  45. Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
  46. Ironweed -- William Kennedy
  47. Kim -- Rudyard Kipling
  48. Light In August -- William Faulkner
  49. Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov
  50. Lord Jim -- Joseph Conrad
  51. Lord Of The Flies -- William Golding
  52. Loving -- Henry Green
  53. Magnificent Ambersons, The -- Booth Tarkington
  54. Magus, The -- John Fowles
  55. Main Street -- Sinclair Lewis
  56. Maltese Falcon, The -- Dashiell Hammett
  57. Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie
  58. Moviegoer, The -- Walker Percy
  59. Naked And The Dead, The -- Norman Mailer
  60. Native Son -- Richard Wright
  61. Nostromo -- Joseph Conrad
  62. Of Human Bondage -- W. Somerset Maugham
  63. Old Wives' Tale, The -- Arnold Bennett
  64. On The Road -- Jack Kerouac
  65. Pale Fire -- Vladimir Nabokov
  66. Parade's End -- Ford Madox Ford
  67. Passage To India, A -- E.M. Forster
  68. Point Counter Point -- Aldous Huxley
  69. Portnoy's Complaint -- Philip Roth
  70. Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, A -- James Joyce
  71. Postman Always Rings Twice, The -- James M. Cain
  72. Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, The -- Muriel Spark
  73. Ragtime -- E.L. Doctorow
  74. Rainbow, The -- D.H. Lawrence
  75. Room With A View, A -- E.M. Forster
  76. Scoop -- Evelyn Waugh
  77. Secret Agent, The -- Joseph Conrad
  78. Sheltering Sky, The -- Paul Bowles
  79. Sister Carrie -- Theodore Dreiser
  80. Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
  81. Sons And Lovers -- D.H. Lawrence
  82. Sophie's Choice -- William Styron
  83. Sound And The Fury, The -- William Faulkner
  84. Studs Lonigan Trilogy, The -- James T. Farrell
  85. Sun Also Rises, The -- Ernest Hemingway
  86. Tender Is The Night -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  87. To The Lighthouse -- Virginia Woolf
  88. Tobacco Road -- Erskine Caldwell
  89. Tropic Of Cancer -- Henry Miller
  90. U.S.A. (Trilogy) -- John Dos Passos
  91. Ulysses -- James Joyce
  92. Under The Net -- Iris Murdoch
  93. Under The Volcano -- Malcolm Lowry
  94. Wapshot Chronicles, The -- John Cheever
  95. Way Of All Flesh, The -- Samuel Butler
  96. Wide Sargasso Sea -- Jean Rhys
  97. Winesburg, Ohio -- Sherwood Anderson
  98. Wings Of The Dove, The -- Henry James
  99. Women In Love -- D.H. Lawrence
  100. Zuleika Dobson -- Max Beerbohm
Author Comments: 

From:
"So what do you think of Modern Library's list? How many books have you read on this list? "

Certain oversights: "To Kill a Mockinbird", "The Hobbit" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "Gone With the Wind", "Fahrenheit 451". Others you think are oversights?

To make this list more useable to me, I alphabetized it.

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Modern Library's 100 Greatest English-Language Novels of the 20th Century