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Modern Library — 100 Best Novels

Modern Library — 100 Best Novels

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100 Best Novels

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80

Authors

6,433

Pages

1899–1999

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Ulysses

James Joyce

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Vladimir Nabokov

Brave New World

Brave New World

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

1984

George Orwell

To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Henderson the Rain King

Henderson the Rain King

Appointment in Samarra

Appointment in Samarra

U.S.A. (trilogy)

U.S.A. (trilogy)

John Dos Passos

Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

A Passage to India

A Passage to India

The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove

The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors

Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy

James T. Farrell

The Good Soldier

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

Animal Farm

The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl

Henry James, Gore Vidal

Theodore Dreiser

A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

William Faulkner

All the King's Men

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

E.M. Forster

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

Graham Greene

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

A Dance to the Music of Time (series)

A Dance to the Music of Time (series)

Point Counter Point

Point Counter Point

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer

The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead

Portnoy's Complaint

Portnoy's Complaint

Vladimir Nabokov

Light in August

Light in August

William Faulkner

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

Ford Madox Ford

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity

The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham, Niall Ferguson

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Main Street

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet

Lawrence Durrell

A High Wind in Jamaica

A High Wind in Jamaica

A House for Mr. Biswas

A House for Mr. Biswas

The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49

Rudyard Kipling

A Room with a View

A Room with a View

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited

The Adventures of Augie March

The Adventures of Augie March

Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

A Bend in the River

A Bend in the River

The Death of the Heart

The Death of the Heart

Elizabeth Bowen

Lord Jim

The Old Wives' Tale

The Old Wives' Tale

Arnold Bennett, Zadie Smith

The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild

Loving

Loving

Henry Green, Christopher Brown

Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

Erskine Caldwell

Ironweed

William Kennedy

John Fowles

Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

Iris Murdoch

Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice

William Styron

The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

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