THE MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS by LoveDove

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  1. THE BOARD'S LIST:
  2. ULYSSES by James Joyce
  3. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  4. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
  5. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
  6. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
  7. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
  8. CATCH-22
  9. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
  10. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
  11. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
  12. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
  13. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
  14. 1984 by George Orwell
  15. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
  16. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
  17. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
  18. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
  19. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
  20. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
  21. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
  22. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
  23. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
  24. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
  25. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
  26. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
  27. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
  28. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
  29. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  30. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
  31. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
  32. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
  33. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
  34. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
  35. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
  36. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
  37. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
  38. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
  39. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
  40. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
  41. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
  42. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
  43. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
  44. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
  45. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
  46. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
  47. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
  48. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
  49. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
  50. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
  51. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
  52. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
  53. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
  54. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
  55. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
  56. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
  57. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
  58. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
  59. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
  60. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
  61. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
  62. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
  63. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
  64. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
  65. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
  66. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
  67. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
  68. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
  69. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
  70. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
  71. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
  72. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
  73. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
  74. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
  75. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
  76. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
  77. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
  78. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
  79. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
  80. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
  81. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
  82. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
  83. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
  84. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
  85. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
  86. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
  87. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
  88. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
  89. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
  90. LOVING by Henry Green
  91. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
  92. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
  93. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
  94. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
  95. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
  96. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
  97. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
  98. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
  99. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
  100. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
  101. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
  102. THE READER'S LIST:
  104. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
  105. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
  106. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
  107. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
  108. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
  109. 1984 by George Orwell
  110. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
  111. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
  112. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
  113. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
  114. ULYSSES by James Joyce
  115. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
  116. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  117. DUNE by Frank Herbert
  118. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
  119. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
  120. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
  121. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
  122. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
  123. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
  124. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
  125. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
  126. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
  127. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
  128. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
  129. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
  130. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
  131. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
  132. THE STAND by Stephen King
  133. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
  134. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
  135. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
  136. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
  137. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
  138. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
  139. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
  140. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
  141. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
  142. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
  143. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
  144. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
  145. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
  146. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
  147. YARROW by Charles de Lint
  148. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
  149. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
  150. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
  151. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
  152. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
  153. TRADER by Charles de Lint
  154. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
  155. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
  156. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
  157. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
  158. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
  159. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
  160. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
  161. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
  162. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
  163. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
  164. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
  165. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
  166. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
  167. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
  168. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
  169. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
  170. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
  171. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
  172. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
  173. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
  174. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
  175. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
  176. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
  177. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
  178. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
  179. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
  180. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
  181. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
  182. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
  183. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
  184. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
  185. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
  186. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
  187. IT by Stephen King
  188. V. by Thomas Pynchon
  189. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
  190. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
  191. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
  192. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
  193. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
  194. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
  195. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
  196. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
  197. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
  198. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
  199. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
  200. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
  201. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
  202. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
  203. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
Author Comments: 

I have a goal to read the Modern Library's best 100 novels as voted on by the board and readers. Each list is composed of 100 novels, with some overlap. Yadda Yadda Yadda. Who says my generation doesn't read?

Highlighted books are books I've read.

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/21925.The_Modern_Library_100_Best_No...

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