Modern Library's "100 Greatest Novels"

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The readers’ poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast.

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  1. 1.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

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  2. 2.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  3. 3.
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by James Joyce

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  4. 4.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  5. 5.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  6. 6.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  7. 7.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  8. 8.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

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  9. 9.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  10. 10.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  11. 11.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  12. 12.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

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  13. 13.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  14. 14.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

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  15. 15.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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  16. 16.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  17. 17.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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  18. 18.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by KURT VONNEGUT

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  19. 19.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  20. 20.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  21. 21.
    Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  22. 22.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

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  23. 23.
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    U.S.A (U.S.A. trilogy)
    by John Dos Passos

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  24. 24.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

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  25. 25.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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  26. 26.
    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James

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  27. 27.
    The Ambassadors (1903)
    by Henry, James

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  28. 28.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  29. 29.
    James T Farrell: Studs Lonigan a Trilogy (Library of America)
    by James T. Farrell

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  30. 30.
    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford

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  31. 31.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  32. 32.
    The Golden Bowl (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Henry James

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  33. 33.
    Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  34. 34.
    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  35. 35.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  36. 36.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  37. 37.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    by Thornton Wilder

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  38. 38.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

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  39. 39.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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  40. 40.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

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  41. 41.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding

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  42. 42.
    Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
    by James Dickey

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  43. 43.
    Dance to the Music of Time
    by Powell

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  44. 44.
    Point Counter Point
    by Aldous Huxley

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  45. 45.
    Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  46. 46.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  47. 47.
    Nostromo
    by Joseph Conrad

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  48. 49.
    Women in Love (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  49. 50.
    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller

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LilyLane
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List complete May 16, 2007 — 2 years ago

Sorry to everyone whose completed percentages went down! :)