Madison Public Library 100 Best Novels

Submitted by justangagain on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 11:58
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  • * 1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
  • * 2. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (1951)
  • * 3. 1984 - George Orwell (1949)
  • * 4. The Color Purple - Alice Walker (1982)
  • * 5. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  • * 6. On the Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)
  • * 7. Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987)
  • * 8. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
  • * 9. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1936)
  • * 10. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
  • * 11. Animal Farm - George Orwell (1954)
  • * 12. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (1952)
  • * 13. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1952)
  • * 14. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1955)
  • * 15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962)
  • * 16. Ulysses - James Joyce (1922)
  • * 17. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (1952)
  • * 18. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
  • * 19. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (1977)
  • * 20. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (1955)
  • * 21. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (1973)
  • * 22. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
  • * 23. My Antonia - Willa Cather (1918)
  • * 24. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (1989)
  • * 25. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (1989)
  • * 26. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)
  • * 27. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952)
  • * 28. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (1926)
  • * 29. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
  • * 30. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver (1988)
  • * 31. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (1939)
  • * 32. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
  • * 33. All the Kings Men - Robert Penn Warren (1946)
  • * 34. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927)
  • * 35. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (1986)
  • * 36. Deliverance - James Dickey (1970)
  • * 37. Howard's End - E. M. Forster (1910)
  • * 38. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy (1922)
  • * 39. Dune - Frank Herbert (1965)
  • * 40. The World According to Garp - John Irving (1978)
  • * 41. A Separate Peace - John Knowles (1959)
  • * 42. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (1943)
  • * 43. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (1957)
  • * 44. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (1980)
  • * 45. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (1937)
  • * 46. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
  • * 47. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (1945)
  • * 48. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)
  • * 49. Native Son - Richard Wright (1940)
  • * 50. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (1959)
  • * 51. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles (1949)
  • * 52. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (1929)
  • * 53. The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton (1988)
  • * 54. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (1929)
  • * 55. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (1940)
  • * 56. From Here to Eternity - James Jones (1951)
  • * 57. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (1916)
  • * 58. Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey (1964)
  • * 59. Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver (1990)
  • * 60. Being There - Jerzy Kosinski (1970)
  • * 61. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin (1969)
  • * 62. Martha Quest - Doris Lessing (1952)
  • * 63. The Four-Gated City - Doris Lessing (1969)
  • * 64. The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903)
  • * 65. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (1992)
  • * 66. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (1985)
  • * 67. Hawaii - James Michener (1959)
  • * 68. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (1934)
  • * 69. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice (1976)
  • * 70. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (1906)
  • * 71. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner (1971)
  • * 72. Rabbit Run - John Updike (1960)
  • * 73. Trinity - Leon Uris (1976)
  • * 74. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut (1973)
  • * 75. The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker (1989)
  • * 76. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin (1953)
  • * 77. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1952)
  • * 78. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (1931)
  • * 79. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (1985)
  • * 80. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
  • * 81. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1902)
  • * 82. Fifth Business - Robertson Davies (1970)
  • * 83. Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow (1975)
  • * 84. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett(1930)
  • * 85. Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi (1994)
  • * 86. Ironweed - William Kennedy (1984)
  • * 87. The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
  • * 88. Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence (1913)
  • * 89. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre (1963)
  • * 90. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis (1922)
  • * 91. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
  • * 92. The Enigma of Arrival - V. S. Naipaul (1987)
  • * 93. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher (1987)
  • * 94. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (1963)
  • * 95. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson (1980)
  • * 96. My Life as a Man - Philip Roth (1974)
  • * 97. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (1943)
  • * 98. Sophie's Choice - William Styron (1979)
  • * 99. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler (1982)
  • * 100. Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison (1992)