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100 Best Novels (The Reader's List)

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From The Modern Library, http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html.

Item
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
Battlefield Earth (L. Ron Hubbard)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
1984 (George Orwell)
Anthem (Ayn Rand)
We the Living (Ayn Rand)
Mission Earth (L. Ron Hubbard)
Fear (L. Ron Hubbard)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Shane (Jack Schaefer)
Trustee from the Toolroom (Nevil Shute)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
The Stand (Stephen King)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
The Worm Ouroboros (E.R. Eddison)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Moonheart (Charles de Lint)
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor)
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
Someplace to Be Flying (Charles de Lint)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Yarrow (Charles de Lint)
At the Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)
One Lonely Night (Mickey Spillane)
Memory and Dream (Charles de Lint)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
Trader (Charles de Lint)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Blood Meridian (Cormac Mccarthy)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
On the Beach (Nevil Shute)
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (James Joyce)
Greenmantle (Charles de Lint)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
The Little Country (Charles de Lint)
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The World According to Garp (John Irving)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
The Wood Wife (Terri Windling)
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Door Into Summer (Robert Heinlein)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy)
Guilty Pleasures (Laurell K. Hamilton)
the Puppet Masters (Robert Heinlein)
It (Stephen King)
V. (Thomas Pynchon)
Double Star (Robert Heinlein)
Citizen of the Galaxy (Robert Heinlein)
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Light in August (William Faulkner)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey)
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
Mulengro (Charles de Lint)
Suttree (Cormac McCarthy)
Mythago Wood (Robert Holdstock)
Illusions (Richard Bach)
The Cunning Man (Robertson Davies)
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)

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