100 Best Novels (The Board's List)
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From The Modern Library, http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html.
| Item |
|---|
| Ulysses (James Joyce) |
| The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) |
| A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (James Joyce) |
| Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) |
| Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) |
| The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner) |
| Catch-22 |
| Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler) |
| Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence) |
| The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) |
| Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry) |
| The Way of All Flesh (Samuel Butler) |
| 1984 (George Orwell) |
| I, Claudius (Robert Graves) |
| To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) |
| An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser) |
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers) |
| Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut) |
| Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) |
| Native Son (Richard Wright) |
| Henderson the Rain King (Saul Bellow) |
| Appointment in Samarra (John O'Hara) |
| U.S.A. (trilogy) (John Dos Passos) |
| Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson) |
| A Passage to India (E.M. Forster) |
| The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) |
| The Ambassadors (Henry James) |
| Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald) |
| The Studs Lonigan Trilogy (James T. Farrell) |
| The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford) |
| Animal Farm (George Orwell) |
| The Golden Bowl (Henry James) |
| Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) |
| A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh) |
| As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) |
| All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren) |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder) |
| Howards End (E.M. Forster) |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin) |
| The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene) |
| Lord of the Flies (William Golding) |
| Deliverance (James Dickey) |
| A Dance to the Music of Time (series) (Anthony Powell) |
| Point Counter Point (Aldous Huxley) |
| The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) |
| The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad) |
| Nostromo (Joseph Conrad) |
| The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence) |
| Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence) |
| Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller) |
| The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer) |
| Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth) |
| Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov) |
| Light in August (William Faulkner) |
| On the Road (Jack Kerouac) |
| The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett) |
| Parade's End (Ford Madox Ford) |
| The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) |
| Zuleika Dobson (Max Beerbohm) |
| The Moviegoer (Walker Percy) |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather) |
| From Here to Eternity (James Jones) |
| The Wapshot Chronicles (John Cheever) |
| The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) |
| A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) |
| Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham) |
| Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) |
| Main Street (Sinclair Lewis) |
| The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) |
| The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durell) |
| A High Wind in Jamaica (Richard Hughes) |
| A House for Mr Biswas (V.S. Naipaul) |
| The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West) |
| A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway) |
| Scoop (Evelyn Waugh) |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark) |
| Finnegans Wake (James Joyce) |
| Kim (Rudyard Kipling) |
| A Room With a View (E.M. Forster) |
| Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh) |
| The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow) |
| Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner) |
| A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul) |
| The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen) |
| Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad) |
| Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow) |
| The Old Wives' Tale (Arnold Bennett) |
| The Call of the Wild (Jack London) |
| Loving (Henry Green) |
| Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) |
| Tobacco Road (Erskine Caldwell) |
| Ironweed (William Kennedy) |
| The Magus (John Fowles) |
| Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys) |
| Under the Net (Iris Murdoch) |
| Sophie's Choice (William Styron) |
| The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles) |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain) |
| The Ginger Man (J.P. Donleavy) |
| The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington) |
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